Atlanta School District to Provide
Free Lunch Regardless of Income
Breitbart Education,
by
Katherine Rodriguez
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/18/2019 5:51:15 PM
Students enrolled in all 77 of Atlanta’s public schools would receive a free lunch regardless of their family’s income. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported that the students will start receiving their free meals at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, thanks to a congressional program dating back to 2010 called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidizes the meals through this congressional program, and “allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MFM 8/18/2019 5:55:12 PM (No. 155749)
I'd rather have my own PBJ thank you very much..
11 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/18/2019 5:55:50 PM (No. 155750)
Heck, why not just give them dinner and let them sleep over?! Cradle to grave....it's only money....
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/18/2019 6:00:32 PM (No. 155753)
Yeah and most of it will wind up in the trash. Kids don't want healthy. They just want a sandwich, a bag of chips and chocolate milk.
12 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/18/2019 6:00:32 PM (No. 155754)
300 million people subsidize the meals for children of middle class and wealthy families. Sounds like a good idea!
6 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
aasilver 8/18/2019 6:11:50 PM (No. 155759)
One more step closer to Government control over diet, habits and propaganda.
The government knows what is best for you.
6 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/18/2019 6:14:32 PM (No. 155761)
I want to see pictures of the garbage cans after lunch is over. Free???? Bwahahaha!!!
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/18/2019 6:17:08 PM (No. 155762)
I hope the socialists won't be asking taxpayers to pay for free stuff. That would be absurd, wouldn't it?
8 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 8/18/2019 6:20:37 PM (No. 155767)
I feel for children of lazy, errr poor parents but maybe if the parents saw their children starving they’d be motivated to take care of them.
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 8/18/2019 6:24:40 PM (No. 155771)
Just bringing the students in line with the teacher’s pensions.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 8/18/2019 6:30:15 PM (No. 155775)
In Atlanta that probably amounts to 99% of the children who are getting free lunches anyway.
6 people like this.
The next step will be to forbid food coming from home.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/18/2019 7:16:33 PM (No. 155802)
The school board in my S Louisiana Parish has been supplying breakfast and lunch for the past couple of years. It's not 'Mooch' food, it's regular food that the children eat. They also offer salads and a lot of children choose those. I'd rather that, than see the school board waste the money on un-needed building projects, and since my ex daughter in law (remarried and working) has custody and is too lazy and cheap to make sure the child has lunch or breakfast, because she spends the child support money on herself and parties and clothes and cars, at least I know my granddaughter is getting some nourishment.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/18/2019 7:21:26 PM (No. 155809)
Dallas does that, too.
0 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
MMC 8/18/2019 7:39:56 PM (No. 155820)
My parents would have would have qualified for us to have Free Lunch.. no way would they have done that.. to the day.. I will remember pbj, carrot sticks, an apple and a homemade cookie! On special treats little Debbie oatmeal pie cookies..
Sometimes, we got potato chips- not often.
I can smell the brown bag lunches to this day! I wasn’t deprived nor starving- although I did long for the chocolate Swiss cake rolls my friends had.. and we often traded!! Good times!!
When I taught school with 98% free lunch students- the kids threw most of lunches away “ I ain’t eating that nasty s@%€”
2 people like this.
Exactly my point. Goobermint schools are nothing more than state-supported daycare centers, now with free lunch, and indoctrination centers for socialism and communism.
Lunch, breakfast and dinner are the responsibility of the parents, not the goobermint, not taxpayers. If parents cannot afford meals, they should not be having children. There are several methods to prevent having children, up to and including abortion. Personal responsibility for one's bevhavior... what a concept.
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Doconc 8/18/2019 8:01:35 PM (No. 155828)
Stacey Abrams approves!!
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/18/2019 9:27:30 PM (No. 155858)
No such a thing as a free lunch.
These are paid for by taxpayers, probably at exorbitant rates.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
panther361 8/18/2019 9:54:51 PM (No. 155875)
Send the bill to the NEA.
1 person likes this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/18/2019 9:57:45 PM (No. 155881)
It's happening all over the country. Many Pennsylvania schools are beginning the program this year, "free" breakfast and lunch for all students regardless of income. The public schools are truly becoming our kids' parents. The article I read said the program originated in 2010 when the kenyan disgrace was our dear leader.
3 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
FLCracker 8/18/2019 10:57:47 PM (No. 155897)
In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," people had children who were then raised in government "creches". Reading the book as a young teenager how people could do that.
I now see how the will come about.
0 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/19/2019 12:09:06 AM (No. 155924)
I would like to see a system of checking the garbage cans in school lunch rooms set up from now own. Just do it for a few weeks to see where all this ''Government Cheese'' ends up. Even hungry children will not eat something that doesn't taste good.
0 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
DynomiteThings 8/19/2019 12:21:19 AM (No. 155932)
Gee, have you ever heard the phrase, "There's no such thing as a free lunch"?
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/19/2019 1:19:49 AM (No. 155946)
If you can't afford to take care of your kids, you shouldn't be allowed to have any. Stop burdening the rest of us with your ignorance!
1 person likes this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
MissMann 8/19/2019 2:00:19 AM (No. 155955)
They'll actually save money. The number of hoops the government makes you jump through to identify, track, and get reimbursements for Free/Reduced Lunch participants means they have to hire people to do all the paperwork--and even then you're constantly under threat of audits. It's just easier and cheaper to just feed all the kids--AND you can feed them food they'll actually eat.
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