Students to get free meals from
400 NYC schools; several locations
turning into childcare centers
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
Kristine Garcia
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/21/2020 11:51:42 AM
New York—Beginning Monday, free meal services for students will be distributed at certain schools while other locations will turn into childcare centers for essential workers’ children. Students can get three free meals a day at 400 sites across the city, according to the Department of Education. No ID is necessary. All meals will be available to all NYC children Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. During the past week, grab-and-go meals were available for any student at any school. As NYC schools prepare for remote learning, the Dept. of Education wants to ensure
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Carmen 3/21/2020 11:54:55 AM (No. 353176)
Parents used to be able to feed their children - back in the day when children lived in families.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 3/21/2020 11:56:18 AM (No. 353178)
Childcare? Wasn't that what was happening before the "Chinese Virus"?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 3/21/2020 12:00:35 PM (No. 353183)
Er, childcare centers? How novel corona. BS by any other name
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/21/2020 12:06:52 PM (No. 353192)
i'm sure they'll stay six feet from each other all day..
more and more.. this is smelling very phony..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 3/21/2020 12:27:28 PM (No. 353225)
Yes, we face disaster, and must "socially isolate," but Bill DiBlasio and Andy Cuomo at the same time insist on retention of worthless programs which encourage mass mingling. Of course Society endured without these programs for millennia.
We're told children will kill us all by mingling, catching covid-19, and then infecting grandma, but we can't ask Mom to rustle up some baloney sandwiches for lunch for a few weeks to avoid them crowding into "feeding programs." What do they ever do in summertime?
(In fact in NYC it's the supposed "PARENTS" showing up -- no doubt many of them just hustlers -- and grabbing huge amounts of food to take home. Security personnel are powerless to stop this ill-disguised looting.
I support some measure of social isolation, -- I have accepted the "expert" opinion. This lockdown, OR SOME VERSION OF IT, will flatten the curve. But how long will the American people tolerate sacrifice when they see people like Bill DiBlasio who will not sacrifice one inch of Libera nonsense, even as he warns us to stay inside?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pinger 3/21/2020 12:31:29 PM (No. 353233)
They closed the schools to avoid the spread of Covid-19. They're turning schools in child-care centers. Uhhhh, what am I missing here?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/21/2020 1:03:09 PM (No. 353269)
New York is going to be infested with coronavirus two years from now. Most of these kids will carry it home to their single parents who are probably not working anywhere.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/21/2020 1:11:30 PM (No. 353287)
Pack em all together in High Density housing and transport them to their little jobs on subways and busses. Feed them all out of the same "Supermarket" where hey line up for the "rewards" program. Please please eat ONLY "free range" chickens. Free range humans on the other hand only exist in the USA and in ever dwindling numbers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/21/2020 1:11:59 PM (No. 353289)
Don't worry, folks - - the gummint will take care of your children.
Nope - - don't worry at all - - - - - - - - - - -
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/21/2020 1:36:08 PM (No. 353324)
Remember those days, long past, when moms sent their kids off to school with a sack lunch (or $6 Million Dollar Man box lunch) loaded with a bologna sandwich, an apple, a cookie and a coke?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 3/21/2020 1:59:09 PM (No. 353366)
"turning into" child care centers? From the results, they have been child care centers, not sites of learning for quite some time.
Parents should feed their kids. We give them buckets of food stamps. I guess they don't want to stop selling them and buying drugs and liquor.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
tangles 3/21/2020 2:24:24 PM (No. 353411)
Yesterday I observed three fat, non-American mothers herding children and their lunch bags back to a row of fancy SUV's. If you can afford a stinking cell phone? How dare you want me to feed your kid a free apple!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/21/2020 3:09:17 PM (No. 353468)
I'm guessing a lot of them have 800$ phones and $50/mo phone plans.
I bought the computer I'm using for this post for $290.
Just sayin'.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/21/2020 3:14:17 PM (No. 353478)
So parents’ responsibility ends with their sperm and egg?
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Never mind the 3Rs. Free lunch is what is important in goobermint schools. That and feeling good about yourself.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/21/2020 11:49:01 PM (No. 353803)
So, they can't go to school, but they're still eating food from the schools and going to the schools for daycare? The restaurants are closed but the kiddies get prepared lunches. What the heck is going on here?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/22/2020 12:29:35 AM (No. 353814)
Three free meals a day for the kids...seems to me mommy's EBT card should be cut accordingly.
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These kids get 3 prepared meals a day, atop the food stamp benefits the parent already receives on their behalf, all funded by the taxpayers. All very pro-business, say the Chamber of Commerce Republicans: Big Snack and Big Junk Food win on the food stamp end and Big Foodservice wins on the school cafeteria end. Add in an army of public servants to administer these programs, also paid via tax dollars, and there’s the engine of American industry.