Comments on: School Lunch Information: Prices, Free Or Reduced Application Available

By: Former working mom

Former working mom — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 05:47:20 +0000

Consider for just a moment a parent who works their behind off for years! ” paying to feed the poor” suddenly, the rug is ripped out from under that parent who has a very succesful career… It is replaced with an incurable disease. Now the parent is forced to file and fight for disabilty. AGAINST THEIR WILL. The child is on free lunch so she isn’t hungry. Hi, I am the sorry, pathetic poor. Please, consider your words. We aren’t ALL what we seem.

By: ProudArmyParent

ProudArmyParent — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:56:43 +0000

I think those that a approve FREE school lunches across the board need to take a closer look at Bratt Elementary! I do not see how that school does not rate FREE lunches.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 04:30:57 +0000

@parent – the way I see it, it’s simpler to just feed all the kids at this point; the poor because they need it, and the rest of us because we pay for it through taxes. It’s true that there are a great number of “parents” who waste money that we give them, but maybe some of the kids will break that cycle. Too much to hope for? Perhaps, but maybe…

By: parent

parent — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:55:10 +0000

So my 5yr old goes to Jim allen and he gets a free lunch. As this is his first year in school i had no idea every child got it. I was fully prepared to pay full price for lunch so i guess according to everyone i should feel ashamed? I’m really not sure how many tattoos, cigarettes and cell phones $11.25 a week will buy maybe i should donate mine to charity so i don’t feel like such a useless bum

By: tg

tg — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:35:17 +0000

Melissa you totally miss the point its parents that are responsible for their children not tax payers. If you cant afford children dont have them.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:53:11 +0000

Neither you nor your children have to be U.S. citizens to receive Free and Reduced price meals………why not?

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:45:22 +0000

I know most students, bring a lunch in Molino, because they can not afford to pay for lunch daily, did they factor that in?

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:36:07 +0000

I did notice that most of the schools that were given this “free lunch” opportunity, are schools that majority of the children receive free lunch anyway. Its a way to look as if someone is actually making a difference, which he may be doing by helping the 10-20 kids that actually have to pay full price. I don’t smoke and don’t condone it, almost everyone needs a smartphone nowadays( cheaper version of a computer) ,I picked one up for less than $40.00 , unless you can afford a $200.computer and that’s a bargain , its a requirement in most of the classes my children take anyhow. Either way I can go on and on. Instead of condemning the parents on what they do or buy, why don’t you ask your self how many 200. plates of lunch/dinner, trips, hotels, etc have you bought , after all where the heck is all are taxes going to???? The lotto even supports the school, but yet we are still buying excessive amount of school supplies and our teachers aren’t paid anything!!! I am not ungrateful for the how many ever kids get a free lunch, all I am saying maybe the real issues are not about if a parent has a tattoo, smartphone, or smokes, but all the schools should have free lunch, no one likes to be left all, so I say all or none.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:24:18 +0000

Let’s try, “Are you selling your EBT card for drugs, leaving the kids with nothing to eat but the pan of brownies you burnt to a crisp and cans of beans they couldn’t open because you do not own a can opener?” I could write a book based on what I’ve witnessed in rental homes.

By: Northof9mi

Northof9mi — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:27:57 +0000

Having been a principal in this county many years ago and having to sign the free and reduced priced lunch forms, it reminds me of several points

1. Melissa is right. Children do need nourishment to function.

2. The question begs, when a parent indicates no income, yet has phone service, a car, latest style clothing, manicured nails…how can there be no income?

3. The schools have been placed in a position by funding various programs to replace the parent(s) and their responsibilities as such.

4. The children go to a sheltered environment, the school, where they are fed, cared
for, counseled, taught, exercised and then looked after when school is over…until
they return to what is called home, where there is sometimes not even four walls!

5. Finally, the profession of teaching/education is the only one that requires the standard of 100% success to be met. Lawyers lose cases, doctors lose patients, mechanics can’t always find the problem to fix and farmers don’t always reap the rewards for their hard work. Yet, teachers…good, bad, pretty, ugly, tall, short, black or white are expected and required to produce great results from children that are damaged goods when they come to the school house everyday, well most everyday.