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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't anything new. The USDA offers summer meals to kids all over Fairfax County. The sites are usually concentrated in high FARMS areas but anyone can go eat there.

I'm pretty disgusted by people railing against this. You can think their parents should pull themselves up by their bootstraps all you want and you may be right, but it doesn't deny that there are hungry kids out there and they shouldn't have to suffer the consequences. [/quote]

Actually, as bad as it sounds, letting the kids suffer is the only thing that might get these "parents" to step up. Enabling bad behavior like this has failed to work for how long now?[/quote]

If their parents earned $15-$20 an hour instead of the current minimum wage, we would'not have to have these types of programs.  Most of these kids have paretns that work more than 40 hours a week. [/quote]

I don’t agree with your statement. 
If minimum wage was this high, the cost of goods would rise significantly.  Add to that, the fact that wages for those above minimum wage would rise as well causing the cost of goods to rise further.  
And, I am not sure how you know that most of these kids have parents that work more than 40 hours a week.  My experience with kids of poverty is that at least one of the parents does not work at all. 
~ Former teacher at Title I schools [/quote]

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