APS providing dinner

[Anonymous]

I don't know about anyone else my my teenager is at high school until 8pm every day. So yeah great idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family is going. I am a disabled single mom, and this will be incredibly helpful for my family.

Are you on SNAP? If so, a judge has ordered that it continue.

Separately, Virginia previously declared a State of Emergency just so it can continue to pay SNAP -- using state funding.

[Anonymous]

I do wonder about the choice of congregate dining over food parcels. But the unhoused or latchkey kids may benefit more I guess.

[Anonymous]

Glad they are doing this. I know some good will go to waste but I’d other my taxes be spent on this instead of killing another 20,000 children in Gaza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family is going. I am a disabled single mom, and this will be incredibly helpful for my family.

Are you on SNAP? If so, a judge has ordered that it continue.

Separately, Virginia previously declared a State of Emergency just so it can continue to pay SNAP -- using state funding.

There are also families in need because of the furlough.

[Anonymous]

I looked at the linked announcement. It's supposedly to for APS students and their families but "no family in need of support" will be turned away.

So only hungry breeders get food. Only households with kids matter.

As a person whose taxes pay for this and whose household is deemed not to be a family I take note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked at the linked announcement. It's supposedly to for APS students and their families but "no family in need of support" will be turned away.

So only hungry breeders get food. Only households with kids matter.

As a person whose taxes pay for this and whose household is deemed not to be a family I take note.

Um, at a school? Yeah.

If you’re hungry as an adult get thee to one of the many soup kitchens or shelters or churches. But yeah, schools are for kids.

You clearly have internet access and time to whine about hungry kids, so you’re fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked at the linked announcement. It's supposedly to for APS students and their families but "no family in need of support" will be turned away.

So only hungry breeders get food. Only households with kids matter.

As a person whose taxes pay for this and whose household is deemed not to be a family I take note.

Yes. The same kids that will be paying into your social security, building roads, providing services and making the economy run so that you can survive when you are an 85 year old vegetable.

[Anonymous]

You don't understand. I want to feed MORE people in those dinners at the high schools, like a family consisting of married GS-9s who live in Arlington and are furloughed and don't have children. Why not them, too?

Save your snark and think about it. Why do they get sent off to "soup kitchens" or more likely are deemed less worthy than if they had kids?

[Anonymous]

And think about it. Why do married people have to have kids in order to be considered a "family"? WTF are they? Life failures? Less than?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting waste of taxpayer funds!

I…can’t think of anything I’d rather do with my taxpayer funds than feed people who need it in my community.

Agree, but I guarantee most of it will just be thrown away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't understand. I want to feed MORE people in those dinners at the high schools, like a family consisting of married GS-9s who live in Arlington and are furloughed and don't have children. Why not them, too?

Save your snark and think about it. Why do they get sent off to "soup kitchens" or more likely are deemed less worthy than if they had kids?

Good for you. But why speak in such a derogatory way about families with children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting waste of taxpayer funds!

I…can’t think of anything I’d rather do with my taxpayer funds than feed people who need it in my community.

Agree, but I guarantee most of it will just be thrown away.

How can you guarantee that? Pleases explain based on how many meals will be prepared, how many are attending and the plans for the food afterward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you need it, go and find out. If not, don’t worry about it. I’m not sure what they were doing in the cafeteria at that time already.

At W-L, Crew takes over the cafeteria for winter conditioning. I assume they'll have to be done early. All the tryouts for winter sports will be going on the following week, obviously not in the cafeteria but nextdoor in the gym, so hundreds of kids coming and going. It'll be busy!

I’m sorry feeding the needy is going to disrupt your sweetie pie’s crew workout.

You all are disgusting.

I'm PP, and my kids don't row crew. I was just answering the question about what is going on in the cafeteria normally at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting waste of taxpayer funds!

I…can’t think of anything I’d rather do with my taxpayer funds than feed people who need it in my community.

Agree, but I guarantee most of it will just be thrown away.

How can you guarantee that? Pleases explain based on how many meals will be prepared, how many are attending and the plans for the food afterward.

Because they did this during Covid and the food they gave out was digesting and old and ratty. People didn’t take advance of the program.