Schools struggle to feed children

Schools wouldn't have to 'struggle to feed children' if the baby-daddy would do what he ought to be doing.

If you cant afford to feed your own child...then dont have one!!!!!

I wonder how many parents of these kids have cell and cable service? Why not let suckers like us pay for their kids lunch?

I thought the OH SO WONDERFUL LOTTERY was suppossed to help fund schools.

Schools wouldn't have to 'struggle to feed children' if the baby-daddy would do what he ought to be doing.

You are half way correct but what about the mama's doing what they ought to be doing? Instead of getting there hair done and nails and all the other stuff each year? There are alot of fathers raising children now days.
The prices of food are going higher along with everything else and there will be more to apply then ever before. Now days it takes both parents and then some to make ends meet.
Has anyone ever seen a child hungry? We hear about it but if this system was not in place we would see alot of little children go hungry. There are a lot of children who get themselves up every morning, get dressed, and get on the school bus all by themselves just to get a education and they are generally the ones who want to get out of that rut and prove the world wrong. They want to make something out of themselves and they strive and this program helped by them NOT going hungry!

Shocking, the Asheville City Schools are not managing their food service very well! Why is that a surprise for a City that does not manage ANYTHING well. I guess they need to hire a $170,000 consultant. In typical ACT form, we must have a ‘victim’ on the front page, and blame everything and body except where the real fault lies, on the school system itself. Also, the ACT never points out that the Asheville City schools have been a disaster for years, yet we get a never ending parade of fluff piece where inner-city kids are planting trees or designing parks, etc. When a problem is mentioned, all of sudden every school system has the same problem, WRONG. Buncombe County schools for instance are ranked as one of top 5 systems in NC for performance and fiscal responsibility. But you never hear about that in the ACT, high achievement and excellence are pretty boring stuff because it lacks a ‘victim’ and we don’t want to City schools to feel bad about themselves. GET OVER IT and fix the whole problem.

When did elementary schools get cafeterias and when did it become the government's job to feed our children?

Kermudgn wrote:

When did elementary schools get cafeterias and when did it become the government's job to feed our children?

My thought exactly. The hell with the nanny state and screw all liberals.

I think there are alot of children receiving free lunches that probanly should not, why not verify employment for these parents and make them pay for their lunch, just like we pay for our kids lunches. Why should we have to feed our kids and everyone elses.
I know there are people that need the free/reduced lunches, but there are people that get it and should not. Let them provide for their own kids.

ETHANOL

Remember when we had Al Gore and the rest of the Global Warming crowd saying ethanal would solve all our problems
So farmers started selling corn to make this stuff, and the prices went up and up and up

Needless to say, ethanol has done little but to raise food prices and make fat fanatics, richer and more powerful

Tagger wrote:

I thought the OH SO WONDERFUL LOTTERY was suppossed to help fund schools.

It does help...SOME! 37% of lottery receipts go to school funding, BUT, the higher percentage of that amount goes to the big cities and WNC kids get the usual shaft.

Democrat politics at its' finest!!

Kermudgn wrote:

When did elementary schools get cafeterias and when did it become the government's job to feed our children?

some years before the schools took it upon themselves to teach character and sex, roughly about the time that parents decided they no longer wanted to do the heavy lifting of child-rearing and preferred to let the state do it.

I wonder how many of the "starving" have cell phones, wear name brand shoes, and look to be anything but underweight.

The schools want to dominate the children. They want to indoctronate them with their choice of beliefs, they want to educate them with their views on sex, etc...so they should feed them. They want all other areas of their lives and the parents happily hand them over day by day to be "educated" by strangers. So, they want it all let them have it all... bills and all.

MKMoore wrote:

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My thought exactly. The hell with the nanny state and screw all liberals.

Great to say...have you ever seen a 5 year old die of malnutrition? I have.

It's not the child's fault when the parents are losers and chose to spend $$ on beer, meth and cigs.

I will write a check for $25 today...hell $1000...if it saves a 5 year old kid from saying "I'm hungry mommy. Why can't I have something to eat?"

No child should be hungry for food in the USA.
This just goes to show the sad state of affairs we are facing. Lets Feed The World while our neighbors go hungry mentality is not a good thought, nor does it taste very good while saying it.

It was of interest to me that state funds from tax and lottery go to pay administration and teachers. Some goes to upkeep and supplies. None, however, goes to the lunch room of these schools. Not only do we not help to provide a healthy lunch to not only underpriviledged, but all students. We also don't pay for maintenance of the equipment.

It is up to the lunchroom with a heavily regulated menu, and a limited captive clientel, to make a profit to sustain their service. No wonder at the end was the plea to not send little Johnny to school with a lunch box, but to let the lunchroom feed him.

We need to make sure Raleigh is using the lottery money solely for schools and demand that they give some of the money to support the lunch program for all students.

I agree with the baby daddy and baby mommy comment, but I think there are more children in need then just those of perpetual drains on society.

native wrote:

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Great to say...have you ever seen a 5 year old die of malnutrition? I have.
It's not the child's fault when the parents are losers and chose to spend $$ on beer, meth and cigs.
I will write a check for $25 today...hell $1000...if it saves a 5 year old kid from saying "I'm hungry mommy. Why can't I have something to eat?"

I think the question many of us have is, why do you think that writing that check to the govt is the answer, particularly when multiple agencies of the same govt who SHOULD have acted did not. Where was law enforcement, social services, etc?

Much of the debate hear owes its birth to your final question, the one that reflects a sorry parent whose child is not put with some relative, adoptive parent, or other competent caregiver. But rather than actually hit a problem where it lives, govt would rather create a new program, staffed by a new bureaucracy, paid for by a new round of your dollars in hopes that you will believe that this effort at public sector efficiency will somehow be better that its predecessors.

Why should I have to pay to feed your kids ?
Get off your fat lazy azz and start to do your job

Schools now are starting pre kindergarten, 3-4 yr olds
after schoo care, free lunch, free breakfast, dental, birth control, abortion info/connections etc etc

If you want to be a parent, than you have to be a parent

yona wrote:

It was of interest to me that state funds from tax and lottery go to pay administration and teachers. Some goes to upkeep and supplies. None, however, goes to the lunch room of these schools. Not only do we not help to provide a healthy lunch to not only underpriviledged, but all students. We also don't pay for maintenance of the equipment.
It is up to the lunchroom with a heavily regulated menu, and a limited captive clientel, to make a profit to sustain their service. No wonder at the end was the plea to not send little Johnny to school with a lunch box, but to let the lunchroom feed him.
We need to make sure Raleigh is using the lottery money solely for schools and demand that they give some of the money to support the lunch program for all students.
I agree with the baby daddy and baby mommy comment, but I think there are more children in need then just those of perpetual drains on society.

I'm all for teachers getting a pay hike, but first things first! Why is my 6th grader repeatedly having to stand (in the isle) of the bus because there are not enough seats for all of the children? What happens if there is an accident and one of these children left standing goes through the windshield???

Just asking

I read this story on line earlier today, at the time the photo showed a black/colored child eating
his free lunch
Now I see there is a white child to illistrate the story

Did ACT some some complaints from blacks that the photo showed black families in a bad light ?