Schools in N.J. are giving out free
meals to kids, regardless of your income
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com,
by
Avalon Zoppo
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/22/2020 1:53:34 PM
New Jersey school districts are continuing to give free breakfast and lunches to children after the federal government extended its summer meals program, following pressure from politicians and activists who argued those struggling due to the pandemic were relying on the service. The Seamless Summer Option program (SSO) lets families pick up free food from their local school district, even if they do not qualify for free and reduced-price meals.(Snip) Siblings of enrolled students and those who attend a charter school, technical school or an approved private school for children with disabilities may also be provided with free meals, according to an FAQ on the USDA’s
Let's recognize so-called public schools for what they really are: taxpayer-funded daycare centers, also indoctrination centers for socialism and communism.
Any school system that has enough money for free breakfast---- the responsibility of the parents--- already has more than enough money.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 9/22/2020 2:10:34 PM (No. 548894)
Time for some of these "activists" to make lunch for some kids instead of demanding that somebody else do the heavy lifting.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimincalif 9/22/2020 2:12:24 PM (No. 548895)
Not just NJ, right here in my neighborhood, courtesy of the USDA, which of course has an endless supply of "free" money:
https://www.schoolnutritionandfitness.com/index.php?sid=2907081811109008&page=2021Mealservice
Due to the extension of the Free Summer Meal Program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), beginning September 1st, any child 18 and under can receive a FREE meal at any of our distribution locations.
Meals will be distributed 5 days per week from 7-8:30 AM. Students do not need to be present in the car to pick up school meals and children do not have to be enrolled in our school district. Parents and guardians of children not attending our school district, must supply proof of child existence if not accompanying adult at time of service.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MMC 9/22/2020 2:17:57 PM (No. 548902)
Same in Michigan
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chase9365 9/22/2020 2:19:23 PM (No. 548903)
Volunteered at my local grade school about 25 years ago. Invariably I would get a call on the first day of school asking if I could bring over some bread, jam and peanut butter because a number of children were sent to school with no lunch. The parents assumed the state (NJ) would be feeding them on Day 1. Imagine sending your kid to school on the first day and sending them with nothing to eat. I grew up in NJ. One of eight children. We were never sent to school without lunch. Nothing fancy, but we had food. Forgot to mention, this town is the same town Murphy calls home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 9/22/2020 2:20:57 PM (No. 548904)
Texas did it after Harvey. I had several coworkers who were earning 6 figure salaries and were proudly saying” not my problem to feed my kids. They get free food at school”.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
coobr03 9/22/2020 2:25:37 PM (No. 548908)
I have it on reliable sources that the UDSA's compensation is higher than the cost of making the meals, so it is a profit center for the schools and they have an incentive to provide as many as possible.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 9/22/2020 2:41:31 PM (No. 548921)
With charity for all?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 9/22/2020 2:41:51 PM (No. 548922)
They just passed a budget with borrowed money. Someone else will take care of it as the brain drain moves to Florida and does the same thing there.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Right Time 9/22/2020 2:52:53 PM (No. 548932)
I notice that public schools are included, as well as charter schools, technical schools, and approved private schools for children with disabilities.
But no parochial schools. Once again, the anti-Catholic/Christian bias shows up. By all means, let's provide meals to any and all students, even if they are wealthy enough to not qualify for them. But let's make sure those "catlick" kids get nuttin'.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/22/2020 2:53:05 PM (No. 548933)
I honestly don't have a problem with giving food to kids. I was a teacher's aide for a few weeks and one day at lunch, several kids were going up and down the tables asking kids if they were going to eat their roll. Most kids gave them their rolls. A teacher said " those kids won't have any food for the weekend. They do this every Friday." So if we spend more feeding kids who's parents can afford it, at least we will be giving it to those who do need it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/22/2020 2:53:35 PM (No. 548934)
Yep. This is the second year that it is happening where I live.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/22/2020 3:14:45 PM (No. 548956)
It's been the policy in my Louisiana parish for more than a few years. 'Free' meals, summer, fall, winter and spring. I carried my lunch in a brown bag, and that bag better make it home, for use tomorrow.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/22/2020 3:26:20 PM (No. 548971)
Yes - - all the meals are FREE.
The food suppliers, warehouse workers, truck drivers, truck maintenance crew, property landlords, receiving clerks, cafeteria staff, garbage removers, cleanup crew - - all of them - - are working for nothing and charging nothing. It's really great when something is FREE!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
worried 9/22/2020 4:04:21 PM (No. 549011)
Someone mentioned a profit for the schools. Years ago, in a town in New England (in Massachusetts) the food services manager was caught stealing a lot of the food and selling it before it got into the school building. Is that the profit he was referring to? A lot of that never got to the kids.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 9/22/2020 4:11:52 PM (No. 549019)
And all the lie-brals arrive at the distribution points to pick up their kids free meals in Audis, Caddies, Mercedes, and Lexus's...limo liberals...a pox on them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
raphaela 9/22/2020 5:02:27 PM (No. 549043)
It's the same in NC. Free food! Let's keep the lunch ladies employed! Who cares if you actually have the means to feed your own kids? It's free. Imagine bringing up two or more generations of children who grow up believing that they don't have to feed their own kids. Enough of this nonsense. Government should get out of the social work business. If someone is truly poor, let them go to a food center and get a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter. Teach the kids to make their own sandwiches and take them to school.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/22/2020 5:04:50 PM (No. 549045)
Just last night I heard for the umpteenth time that 30 million children suffer from hunger in the USA. Quick math...that's about 10% of the total population. With all the free meals, from government-provided to community kitchens, not to mention the EBT cards placed in the hands of "responsible adults", with all the supplementary programs like WIC...who's starving these 30 million kids?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/22/2020 5:49:41 PM (No. 549086)
Why not, with the tax money New Jersey schools rake in they can afford steak and lobster with a side of caviar on Fridays.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/22/2020 6:17:47 PM (No. 549108)
Private schools are getting in on the free stuff more and more while enslaving themselves to Big Eddie.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Faithfully 9/22/2020 6:43:17 PM (No. 549136)
Good.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
berthabutt 9/22/2020 8:16:45 PM (No. 549201)
Schools not only feeding free lunch & breakfast to any income levels, but sending home packed weekend meals for those kids known to come from families not getting fed. Didn't this used to be called 'neglect' and cause for removing said children?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
or gate 9/22/2020 9:00:22 PM (No. 549231)
Great way to break the state.
No need for the grocery store.
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Most of those kids already receive food assistance which was increased, plus pick up at schools and home delivery. A lot of people go from one food bank to another. They are selling food and selling their EBT amount.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
kono 9/23/2020 5:23:03 PM (No. 550212)
A proposal to have the government raise taxes to buy everybody's meals would go down in flames, easily enough. But the age range in this could be expanded more easily, making this a veritable beachhead for Socialism's assault on our semi-Capitalist economy. Way to go, New Jerky.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
or gate 9/23/2020 7:15:51 PM (No. 550332)
The state can file for unemployment.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch except in the USA, where the breakfast is also free. The USA is broke to the point where we print money to cover the debt, and yet we're spending on frills because Big Foodservice wants more business.