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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really?  Six pages and nobody’s quoted TANSTAAFL yet? Compared to the rest of my family, I don’t really qualify as a geek. I can’t believe I’m the only one who made this connection.

Seriously, though, I agree with the sentiment “There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.”.  While I absolutely agree we need to help those who need help and that no child in our county should go hungry, everything has an opportunity cost. The more we spend on free lunches, the less we can spend on other worthy causes, at least without increasing debt, which will eventually have its own consequences. I am fully capable of paying my children’s lunches. Sometimes they packed a lunch and other times they purchased the school lunch which, however poor the quality, was not terribly expensive to begin with.  Moreover, while our family was comfortable, we’re nowhere near the high income end of Montgomery County, much less DCUM. I’m happy for MCPS to provide free lunches to lower income families and to set a higher qualifying income standard to cover more kids.  I find it totally unnecessary, wasteful, and practically obscene to give charity to people who don’t need it when it could be used to help those who do. [/quote]

Well that’s one way of looking at it I guess.  But I sure do miss the daycare days when a relatively healthy, tasty (according to my kids) lunch was provided with the cost baked into the tuition. Everyone ate the same thing, and my kids were much better eaters.  Now they have the choice between a crap school lunch or one from home, but they complain that the lunches I pack don’t have enough junk food.  Under the current model, school food will never improve.  It has to be utilized by enough families who demand better and consider healthy eating important enough to accept slightly higher taxes to pay for it.

And don’t get me started on the breakfasts.[/quote]

Are you kidding me?  This is one of the craziest posts on this thread. Take some responsibility.  How old are your kids?  Who pays for the groceries in your house?

If you want your kids to eat better, then make it happen.  Or choose private school if you prefer.  Don’t expect taxpayers to pay for your kids to have a ‘better diet’.

You’re complaining that your kids want junk food for lunch.  You are the one buying that junk food.  Your kids were fed lunch at preschool because (as you say), the cost was baked into tuition.  If you want to continue to pay tuition, and include food with that, there are PLENTY of private schools in this area that can do that for you.  And many provide wonderful lunch options.  Otherwise, pack your kids lunch and tell them to eat what’s in it.  [/quote]

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