I really and truly hate ignorance like this, really wants to make me vomit. |
Because you go to their houses, all of them, and you watch the parents budget or not budget, eek out a living or not. Instead of sitting back in smug judgement, why don't you volunteer to help less educated and/or poor folk learn how to budget and shop withing a budget. Try extending a little more mercy, compassion and kindness. Try realizing that you do not have all the facts or know the hearts and minds of all of the parents. Try realizing there are areas of life in which you fall short, WAYYYY SHORT. Hope no one is judging you like u are judging these folks. Thank God for Jesus. |
| Long term malnutrition, repeated calorie deprivation, and food insecurity wreck havoc on both brain development and emotional growth. I have friends who've adopted kids from developing countries where the kids were underfed. Not starved like in a famine, but fed the minimal calories. All of them have specific behavioral traits that I saw in the poor kids that I have taught in public schools right in MoCo, MD. |
You do realize that everything you just wrote IS judging???????????? |
| We can't pay any money in DCPS I thought. You have to use a number and parents pay through an online account. So you could be FARM or not. Our cafeteria workers are not allowed to touch/take any money. I was a kid in the 90s who had a punch card. I hated it but I also needed to eat. You do what you have to do. |
Carol, is that you? http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-a-leading-authority-on-what-shouldnt-be-in-p,35922/ |
I guess that means your kids but no snacks at school, so as not to abuse your government handout?? After all, you work in the cafeteria and we all know they don't earn shit, so your kids must be FARMS! |
Well you are right about one thing, they don't pay much to lunch ladies, but I don't even work there anymore anyways. I was the one who wiped down tables, helped kids open things, brought napkins & utensils, let kids go to the bathroom, and helped if they had their hands up. I got paid about $8 an hour when I left my job last year. (I quit because we moved an hour away).The good thing was that I didn't have that job because I NEEDED it, I had it because I wanted to do it. I am a SAHM to ONE child and my husband earns really good money, so our child doesn't qualify for free or reduced prices. I pack his lunch 4 days and let him buy one day a week. I have no problem with children receiving free or reduced lunches, or any of the public assistance that they receive. I actually feel sorry for them. I used to be one of those kids too. My mom had three kids before she was 23, and was a single mom with no college education and she worked as a waitress. We got free lunches, but I was too embarrassed to eat them because they used to have it where you told the cashier "I get free lunch". We also never had any food shortage in my house and I had two older brothers. My problem with public assistance has NOTHING to do with the children receiving it. My problem is with the waste, fraud, and abuse that is happening with all these programs. If you all ore okay with that, whatever, but I'm not and I have my reasons. For one, the cost of living and taxes are only getting higher and higher which is only harming the people on these tax-payer funded programs. Somebody has to pay for all of this. Another thing is, how can anyone expect people on public assistance to improve their lives when the system is set up where they can't get off the programs? If they earn a little extra they cut back on the benefits they receive. How can they get ahead when that happens? One more thing is that people often feel bad about themselves when they are on public assistance because they are unable to provide for themselves and/or their families. How is that good for anyone? Especially when it's so hard to get out of it? For my family, we try to be frugal so that we have some money saved up in case of an emergency. We try to teach our child to be responsible with money so that he will have some experience and understanding of that when he's older. For people on public assistance, they can't do that and that's a lack of security which is really, really sad. So, I will just say that public assistance should be better managed so it can actually help people and not keep them on it long term. |
While you sit back & judge me and suggest I try volunteering, right? I am a volunteer actually, and have been for the better portion of my adult life. I used to live in a pretty run down area where most of the people shopping in the stores I shopped at used EBT cards to pay for their groceries, and yes, I judged them. Everyone does it, so quit acting like you're above it. You just sat back and judged me. I volunteer at an elementary school, and I used to teach arts and crafts to LOW INCOME CHILDREN!!!!!!!! Can you believe it? |
| Wow, i was wondering how this question was being answered for 9 pages.... |
Wow, make this I e a saint, she came in contact with low income children. (Slow clap) |
Oh... so I get it. First, it's the people don't have priorities and the kids should not be allowed ice cream, now it's I was poor, but we were the good kind of poor. LOL! I know your type, sorta feel sorry for you. Though, I do agree that the public assistance programs are not designed well. Neither is our education system. Or the corporate welfare that allows companies to deduct CEO salaries that are over a million dollars. A lot of things suck lady, including your initial attitude that you are now trying to backtrack on. |
You're a freakin moron!!!! Oh my god! I never said I was the "good type" of poor! Now we have "good poor"? How is any poor good????? Wtf is wrong with you???? I said my mom was just like everyone else in how we ended up on public assistance. About 1/2 of the population is you idiot. I never said no ice cream for anybody, I said PRIORITIES! Quit trying to demonize me on trivial BS! I KNOW YOUR TYPE TOO!!! Do good-know nothing liberal pos!!!!!! I'm not trying to back track on anything, you are a nasty person. You DO NOT KNOW ME, and I am SOOOOO glad I don't know you! I present facts, you attack. Hopeless. |
HAHAHA! 1) "GOOD TYPE OF POOR" -- einstein that was a sarcastic remark 2) I'm not a liberal 3) LOL! -- Guess I hit a nerve...you did backtrack...you are sitting up here trying to say that kids eating snacks is an indication of misplaced priorities... Geez...self awareness is not your strong suit |
| Simmer down, ladies. . . |