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D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.My 14 year-old laughed out loud at the illogic of the first two goals:
Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after-school programs, where extra academic help is available. It is also part of a broader effort, mandated by recent D.C. Council legislation, to upgrade the quality and nutritional value of school food with fresh, locally grown ingredients.Can't they just get the heavy kids to give half their food to the starving kids?
Seriously, the real problem is parents who aren't emotionally, mentally, or physically present for their kids. If a child can't eat a single meal at home, what kind of home life does he have? These kids are still there, hours after the school day is over, because their parents have them in the after-care program until 6:30 pm. Of course the kids are hungry; they haven't eaten since lunch.
I guess it would be too much to expect parents to send something for their kids to eat after school?
Why don't schools provide beds for the kids, too? Then they'll never have to go home and the government can "take care" of them 24 hours a day.
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The real problem is the nanny state. Parents such as the ones you describe EXPECT the state to step in and do their job for them.
ReplyDeleteFor the protection of the kids, none should receive 3 meals a day routinely until after child protective services has conducted a full investigation of the parents.
ReplyDeleteSlightly OT -- will Sasha and Malia be included or will their care continue to be in the hands of federal civil servants?
Jill, don't give DC any ideas....hey everyone..we could improve kids productivity and make sure they get 8 hours of sleep if we just kept them here...
ReplyDeleteI grew up around the black community since the sixties. The 800lb gorilla sitting in the room that no one wants to talk about is why in the world we are even here in the first place. I can tell you why because as a person with first hand experience I have seen how the government dumbed down and crippled the black communities in America. The vast majority of the kids targeted by this effort are going to be black or another minority because D.C. drew them to its area by the use of federal programs.
ReplyDeleteIn the sixties if you would have offered this to a black family, you would have been insulting them and they would have let you know such. By the seventies, it became a little easier to accept free handouts as something being deserved because of their victim status, but by and large the older men and women had their pride and would not accept any. By the eighties things had changed, as the older women lost control of their families to the younger women brought up with their victim status. Women like Michelle Obama. By the nineties and up to now free stuff and the government raising your kids is the accepted model and anything less than that is considered racist and an affront to their rights.
That said, there has been a growing number of educated, professional black and other minorities who now find themselves on the other side of the tracks economically. They are now the "greedy rich" who are seeing their lifestyles attacked and taxes being raised. Those people are the ones the democrats fear the most because they no longer see politics completely through the lens of race, they see it through economic harm.
I know some of these people and they have less patience with their lazy federally subsidized brethren than we do. In fact, I could quote you some comments I heard during my career that if I said them out loud, I would have probably been fired!
This is one reason the democrats are going after the Hispanics so hard. They know they are losing the black vote at some point. The population isn't growing like it used to, more are successful and more are beginning to realize they've been screwed. The immigrant Hispanics do not understand the game they will have played on them.