As I read the article, both houses passed a very liberal free lunch bill, while ONE member suggested the work requirement. And on the basis of that one guy, we're condemning the entire state? Did I misunderstand the article?

BTW, WV has Dem gov, 2 Dem sens, a state senate that is 25 Dem to 9 Rep and a state house that is 54 Dem to 46 Rep.

What the Rep State Senator form WVA seems to miss in suggesting this is that each and every kid in WVA schools has already contributed to financial balance sheet of the school, in the form of the per capita tax dollars given to each school per enrolled child.

So, in fact the kids are " earning" for the school.

Anonymous wrote:As a kid who got free lunch at a school where that was a minority situation, it's shaming enough without having to work for the crappy lunch. Also, I did work. babysitting at 12, fast food starting at 16. I"m still bitter.

Agree. And you know some of the bitchy kids would purposely tip over garbage cans and laugh at the poor kid cleaning it up, or spill their drink to laugh at the poor kid cleaning it up. When is this kid supposed to do this "work"? Before school? After? During? There's no good time.

At my private high school I *wanted* extra money and found out there was a job wiping down lunch tables and then folding and putting them away. I think it was $3 a day or $5 a day. It took 10 minutes, and for a girl who was socially awkward having something to do during recess other than socializing worked well for me. A teacher pulled me aside one day and pointed out another student, whose family the school knew was poor, and told me Suzy needed some money for the weekend, and would I mind giving up my job to her for the week. I said okay. From then on any time she was in a pinch she could come ask me if she could do the tables, and I always said yes. But we were in 11th and 12th grade, not 1st grade.

Maybe we should have West Virginia get jobs in order to receive Federal aid.

These are children! Let them eat and get nourished. Let them enjoy their childhood so they can grow up to be productive citizens.

This makes no sense. I can see the school drop out rate increasing. And welfare recipient list growing.

Anonymous wrote:Every man should be educated according to his station in life. It is a waste for a farm boy to learn algebra. Like the Amish and mormons. Some are born to be dumb

I'll bite. I was born to be dumb. Mom GED. Bio-Father criminal (and no, I don't actually know who my dad is, so?). Me doctorate earn 200K yr pay a lot of taxes and own a SFH in ARL.

Thanks to tax payers, I am all that. I also calculated how much I cost the system and figured that with the taxes I paid, I had paid it back by 32.