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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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?

As bad as it sounds....punishing the kids for the income limitations of the parents. Do you not get that not everyone has a privileged background. If you earn minimum wage, you can not dig out of it. You can not afford the education to earth the money to support your kids properly.

God I hate people like you. [b]You assume people choose to be poor.[/b] Donald did not choose to be rich; he was born into wealth. Today, to make it, you almost certainly need an education, which costs money. If you do not have the money, your kids go hungry, and will be required to borrow out the wazoo for education. Now, if because of your poverty, your credit is not good, well f*** the kids.[/quote]

+1  I had one student who was an only child.  Only a mother who worked day and night to just keep a place rented.  Do you think it's really healthy for that kid to be alone with no food hour upon hour in a rundown apartment somewhere?  I can tell you the outcome of that.  A very angry teenager.  He loves his mother, but often asked me (his teacher) if I made lunch for my own son every day. He wanted to know what life at my house was like.  Yeah, let's punish the kids so the parents will "step up".  His mom was doing the best she could IMO.  I don't know who some people are that they judge.  I wonder if they have ever been hungry or lonely.  Seriously.  [/quote]

Not pp here. 
See, these are the kids that I believe these programs are targeted at.  And, I have no issue with that.  Give the family a “hand up” so that they don’t need to fret about everything in their lives. 
But, that is not what is happening.  Instead, it is free food for all..... presumably so we don’t “stigmatize” kids who have real need. 
There has to be a better way and a more efficient way to use the funding.  [/quote]

Do you really believe that the children of 1 percenters will leave their fancy lacrosse and sailing camps, and trudge across the county to get a free hamburger? No. They'll take Mummy's AMEX to Five Guys. Or they'll just stay at the club, and have Victor bring them a sandwich and an Arnold Palmer.[/quote]

So many mean and innacurate stereotypes coming from people on BOTH sides of this argument. :([/quote]

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