Teachers, admin, lunch staff.

Sorry, you cannot compare 400 years ago with today (unless you are just that simplistic). Expansion/exploration was the norm, no immigration laws, and so on. You cannot judge the present by the past.

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Are you saying that only the free-lunch kids buy, and everybody else packs? That's not my experience, in a medium-FARMS school. There are plenty of kids who live in expensive houses who buy.

Not mine either. We live in a low ESOL (15%), low FARMS (<10%) school area and at least half the kids buy lunch every day. Our current school does not offer breakfast, but we used to live in a FCPS ES district that was similar (~10% FARMS, ~10% ESOL) and they did offer breakfast. That school started at 9:15 and breakfast was VERY popular with SACC kids who may have been there since 7:15/7:30. It was also a very social meeting time before school for a lot of kids.

I think it all depends on whether children like the lunch, and the quality/health is good. I imagine it's a nice time saver for busy families. I've worked in a high poverty school where the UMC kids usually did not pack lunch for that reason. Some of the poor kids did pack lunches, usually lunchables. Sometimes they just brought in huge bag of chips and I'd insist they go get lunch because chips along does not make a good diet.

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Anonymous wrote:All kid lunches should be free. I would be willing to pay extra taxes to support 100% free lunches for grades k-12.

Nice thought except the lunches on the federal school lunch program are very unhealthy. poor quality meats, processed foods, tons of sugar. they need a complete overhaul before i would let my child eat that if i had an option. it's really sad that those that need healthy food the most (because they may not get it at home) are served such sub standard meals.

This 1000 times over. I HATE when my kids want to have the school lunch, I'd much rather pack everyday. Since we don't get FARMS, that expensive crappy school lunch food adds up. I can pack for far less and much more healthy.
I do have to wonder what SO many families are doing in one of the most expensive places to live in the US if they can't afford to pay for their kids lunches. I'm not talking of the OP, with a temporary financial setback. It's the lifers, who will most likely perpetuate that way of life onto the children currently in school, receiving free lunches.

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Anonymous wrote:About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know.

Holy cow. Where the hell is this?

There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised?

Because that's an incredible (and unfair) burden on the taxpayers.

75% of students at that ES are Hispanic, so yes, as they are probably mostly illegal or anchors

You say "anchor", I say "US citizen".

If that's the case, they would be fluent in English by Kindergarten. But...nope...

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"anchors" are native born US citizens. Illegal immigrants are... White European settlers who refused to assimilate and learn the language and culture of those already here.

TRUTH!

Bingo! Just visited Jamestown/Williamsburg over the weekend for a refresher on Colonial history and yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

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Anonymous wrote:About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know.

Holy cow. Where the hell is this?

There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised?

Because that's an incredible (and unfair) burden on the taxpayers.

75% of students at that ES are Hispanic, so yes, as they are probably mostly illegal or anchors

You say "anchor", I say "US citizen".

If that's the case, they would be fluent in English by Kindergarten. But...nope...

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"anchors" are native born US citizens. Illegal immigrants are... White European settlers who refused to assimilate and learn the language and culture of those already here.

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Anonymous wrote:About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know.

Holy cow. Where the hell is this?

There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised?

Because that's an incredible (and unfair) burden on the taxpayers.

75% of students at that ES are Hispanic, so yes, as they are probably mostly illegal or anchors

You say "anchor", I say "US citizen".

If that's the case, they would be fluent in English by Kindergarten. But...nope...

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Anonymous wrote:All kid lunches should be free. I would be willing to pay extra taxes to support 100% free lunches for grades k-12.

Nothing like raising an entitled generation.

Entitled? You eat the food giving to children at school. I'm willing to pay extra taxes to pay children to eat the no good food.

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WTH are you trying to say? Illiterate, much?

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Anonymous wrote:All kid lunches should be free. I would be willing to pay extra taxes to support 100% free lunches for grades k-12.

Nothing like raising an entitled generation.

Entitled? You eat the food giving to children at school. I'm willing to pay extra taxes to pay children to eat the no good food.

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Anonymous wrote:About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know.

Holy cow. Where the hell is this?

There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised?

Because that's an incredible (and unfair) burden on the taxpayers.

75% of students at that ES are Hispanic, so yes, as they are probably mostly illegal or anchors

You say "anchor", I say "US citizen".

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Anonymous wrote:All kid lunches should be free. I would be willing to pay extra taxes to support 100% free lunches for grades k-12.

Nothing like raising an entitled generation.

I think everyone should be entitled to food.

Also, medical care. Like with Medicare. (Speaking of an entitled generation.)

Medicare is a benefit that you pay for the entire time you are working so it's there when you aren't working. Why shouldn't a person get what they pay for?

Do you think that your Medicare payments go into a little bank account with your name on it? They don't. Your Medicare payments are going to the people who are currently getting Medicare. Your children's payments will go to you. And your Medicare benefits have zero to do with you much you paid in Medicare.

Medicare is an entitlement. That is a fact.

No, I don't think that Medicare payments go into a bank account with my name on it. However, if the government had structured it properly in the first place maybe it should. It is not the fault of the current Medicare recipients that the program is structure pay as you go. How would you feel if you paid into a system your entire professional life and there wasn't a benefit available? Ok, call it an entitlement, but it's an earned entitlement.

We are not talking about ending Medicare. We are talking about entitled generations. Right now, people who receive Social Security and Medicare are the most entitled generation; they receive the most entitlements, by far.

Now, I don't have a problem with that. But then I don't have a problem with making sure that kids don't go hungry, either.

Just as with medicare, the people receiving social security also paid in - so how again is that "entitlement" when you've paid for it?

Most people get a lot more in Social Security payments than they paid in Social Security taxes. And you can qualify for Social Security (Medicare, too) even if you never worked a day in your life for pay.

Also, I think that you don't know what "entitlement" means. An entitlement program is a government program where you have a legal right to the benefits. Examples of an entitlement program: Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation, agriculture subsidies, and military retirement. Example of NOT an entitlement program: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (i.e., "welfare").

My grandma was a stay at home mom. She gets Medicare and Medicaid. My grandparents lost a lot of their promised pension benefits like healthcare when my grandfather's former employer went under. Thus they were very limited in income and went into debt when grandma started having significant health problems. My grandfather has since deceased. For those saying you should only get entitlement benefits if you "paid in", that's cold, and totally ignorant. How are these kids who get free lunch supposed to pay in? If you give them advantages to succeed early, they will have a better chance of being productive, tax paying citizens later on.

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Anonymous wrote:All kid lunches should be free. I would be willing to pay extra taxes to support 100% free lunches for grades k-12.

Nothing like raising an entitled generation.

I think everyone should be entitled to food.

Also, medical care. Like with Medicare. (Speaking of an entitled generation.)

Medicare is a benefit that you pay for the entire time you are working so it's there when you aren't working. Why shouldn't a person get what they pay for?

Do you think that your Medicare payments go into a little bank account with your name on it? They don't. Your Medicare payments are going to the people who are currently getting Medicare. Your children's payments will go to you. And your Medicare benefits have zero to do with you much you paid in Medicare.

Medicare is an entitlement. That is a fact.

No, I don't think that Medicare payments go into a bank account with my name on it. However, if the government had structured it properly in the first place maybe it should. It is not the fault of the current Medicare recipients that the program is structure pay as you go. How would you feel if you paid into a system your entire professional life and there wasn't a benefit available? Ok, call it an entitlement, but it's an earned entitlement.

We are not talking about ending Medicare. We are talking about entitled generations. Right now, people who receive Social Security and Medicare are the most entitled generation; they receive the most entitlements, by far.

Now, I don't have a problem with that. But then I don't have a problem with making sure that kids don't go hungry, either.

Just as with medicare, the people receiving social security also paid in - so how again is that "entitlement" when you've paid for it?

Actually SS and Medicare are totally different. Your SS payment DOES depend on what you paid in- Medicare does not, right? You don't have to have held a job a day in your life, but once you meet the age requirement, you're in.

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Anonymous wrote:About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know.

Holy cow. Where the hell is this?

There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised?

Because that's an incredible (and unfair) burden on the taxpayers.

75% of students at that ES are Hispanic, so yes, as they are probably mostly illegal or anchors