Free breakfast and lunch at all schools, all year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in the summer program and the food they offer is not the best and repetitive. Similar to the food they offer in the curbside pick up. However, it is great that they can offer this service and it will be helpful to so many.

I wonder if that will continue in the fall. Still too dangerous to have food staff cooking? Or the fed free meal $$ does not cover much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Except here you are, questioning it! Seems like you've mistaken people disagreeing with you for being silenced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Food has gotten incredibly expensive. I do not know how people on a budget are making it work. It is especially shameful because the supply chain issues are mostly resolved; food companies and grocery stores are now testing how high thry can set prices and still have customers.

I think it is great that the schools are feeding kids no questions asked, with prices so high I am sure some people are doing without and would be going hungry otherwise.

You buy cheaper foods, you shop at Aldi's, Lidl, Walmart, for example. Lots of ways.

Is there a Walmart anywhere near Montgomery county? Seems pretty pennywise in pound foolish to drive all the way out to DC or Laurel (assuming you have a car)

There is a Walmart in Germantown.

That’s really convenient for the poor and carless residents of Aspen Hill. Maybe just a four hour round trip bus ride in the hopes of saving $5 on whatever groceries you can haul on public transportation with 2-3 kids in tow. Or were you suggesting that the poor move to Germantown for proximity to the Walmart?

[Anonymous]

This is good. My sister had a friend growing up whose mom was angry after his Dad split and he didn't qualify for things like free lunch but his mom would "forget" to up the lunch money or pack him a lunch (yes CPS had been called but nothing changed). The school would give him basically bread and an apple. My parents basically started packing my sis an extra lunch so she could feed him. But he was embarrassed so it took a while for the fellow parents to figure out what was going on as he hid it.

Some kids just have crappy parents but not crappy enough that social services fix anything. They currently fall through the cracks. Providing them with a hot meal every day could make all the difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

Sure they are. Plenty of moms who simply don’t want to be bothered making lunch.

So we use tax money to feed kids breakfast and lunch in Bethesda and Potomac, while kids in Gaithersburg can barely read at grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

Sure they are. Plenty of moms who simply don’t want to be bothered making lunch.

So we use tax money to feed kids breakfast and lunch in Bethesda and Potomac, while kids in Gaithersburg can barely read at grade level.

"A few people who might not deserve something might get it, therefore we should stick with a more expensive and wasteful system for administering a benefit that all children could use."

I know my neighbors in the older garden style apartments here in DTSS pay for roads that rich people also use, and yet, I think they're okay with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Food has gotten incredibly expensive. I do not know how people on a budget are making it work. It is especially shameful because the supply chain issues are mostly resolved; food companies and grocery stores are now testing how high thry can set prices and still have customers.

I think it is great that the schools are feeding kids no questions asked, with prices so high I am sure some people are doing without and would be going hungry otherwise.

You buy cheaper foods, you shop at Aldi's, Lidl, Walmart, for example. Lots of ways.

Is there a Walmart anywhere near Montgomery county? Seems pretty pennywise in pound foolish to drive all the way out to DC or Laurel (assuming you have a car)

There is a Walmart in Germantown.

That’s really convenient for the poor and carless residents of Aspen Hill. Maybe just a four hour round trip bus ride in the hopes of saving $5 on whatever groceries you can haul on public transportation with 2-3 kids in tow. Or were you suggesting that the poor move to Germantown for proximity to the Walmart?

Plenty of "the poor" already live in Germantown. The "you buy cheaper foods" PP's post is still foolish, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Food has gotten incredibly expensive. I do not know how people on a budget are making it work. It is especially shameful because the supply chain issues are mostly resolved; food companies and grocery stores are now testing how high thry can set prices and still have customers.

I think it is great that the schools are feeding kids no questions asked, with prices so high I am sure some people are doing without and would be going hungry otherwise.

You buy cheaper foods, you shop at Aldi's, Lidl, Walmart, for example. Lots of ways.

Is there a Walmart anywhere near Montgomery county? Seems pretty pennywise in pound foolish to drive all the way out to DC or Laurel (assuming you have a car)

There is a Walmart in Germantown.

That’s really convenient for the poor and carless residents of Aspen Hill. Maybe just a four hour round trip bus ride in the hopes of saving $5 on whatever groceries you can haul on public transportation with 2-3 kids in tow. Or were you suggesting that the poor move to Germantown for proximity to the Walmart?

Plenty of "the poor" already live in Germantown. The "you buy cheaper foods" PP's post is still foolish, though.

That helps the poor in Germantown, but does nothing for the poor that don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

Sure they are. Plenty of moms who simply don’t want to be bothered making lunch.

So we use tax money to feed kids breakfast and lunch in Bethesda and Potomac, while kids in Gaithersburg can barely read at grade level.

As long as you're blaming parents, please blame all parents, regardless of gender. I know for a fact that men are also capable of making lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Sorry to disappoint, but the kids in Bethesda living in $2 million homes don’t want the free lunch. They bring their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Sorry to disappoint, but the kids in Bethesda living in $2 million homes don’t want the free lunch. They bring their own.

Which Bethesda school do you work in the lunchroom of? Because otherwise there's no way for you to know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

Sure they are. Plenty of moms who simply don’t want to be bothered making lunch.

So we use tax money to feed kids breakfast and lunch in Bethesda and Potomac, while kids in Gaithersburg can barely read at grade level.

If they weren’t buying the school lunch before, they probably didn’t start now because it dropped from $2.35 to free. It’s crappy food. I taught in a W feeder for 6 years. Almost 80% of the students brought a lunch from home. The majority of those who bought any food from the cafeteria did so a la carte so they might add milk or fries to the food packed from home. They weren’t eating cheese dippers or the spicy chicken patty. The FARMs kids ate those so it was very easy to tell who was poor if they ate school lunch every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Kids in Bethesda are not eating the school meals.

Sure they are. Plenty of moms who simply don’t want to be bothered making lunch.

So we use tax money to feed kids breakfast and lunch in Bethesda and Potomac, while kids in Gaithersburg can barely read at grade level.

No, plenty of “Bethesda moms” are not using the free lunches. Parents in Montgomery County who are able to buy healthy, nutritious meals are not sending their kids to free food sites to get low quality breakfasts and lunches. It’s great the food is available to people without other options, but no one with other options is using it for convenience. Whole Foods delivers for free.

[Anonymous]

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If they weren’t buying the school lunch before, they probably didn’t start now because it dropped from $2.35 to free. It’s crappy food. I taught in a W feeder for 6 years. Almost 80% of the students brought a lunch from home. The majority of those who bought any food from the cafeteria did so a la carte so they might add milk or fries to the food packed from home. They weren’t eating cheese dippers or the spicy chicken patty. The FARMs kids ate those so it was very easy to tell who was poor if they ate school lunch every day.

How did you know who was a "FARMs kid"?