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Related: About this forumCity Council budget to fund universal free lunch for all public school kids
ERIN DURKIN
There is such a thing as a free lunch, if the City Council has its way.
The Councils proposed city budget, to be unveiled Wednesday, will include a universal school lunch program for all kids, regardless of how much money their families make.
The Council is asking for $24 million to fund the program.
Backers say the idea will will end the stigma that some poor kids feel for accepting free lunch.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/city-council-budget-fund-universal-free-lunch-public-school-kids-blog-entry-1.1765044#ixzz2zeG5obbb
Good!
LoveIsNow
(356 posts)When public services exist only for the poor, it opens the door for the narrative that the poor are mooching off of the rest of society. When everyone gets them, people are more likely to accept them as beneficial and fair.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)LoveIsNow
(356 posts)So you can take the money that would have been spent on your child's food and go spend it at McDonald's or something. Better than that they should eat of the bread of socialism.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)They will just have to get over it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The line in The Lord's Prayer "give us this day, our daily bread".
In the Middle East they still do that. As in, the government hands out FREE BREAD to any and all who want it as is the custom from time immemorable.
ChazInAz
(2,535 posts)...is no one thinking of the poor, deprived bullies who steal other kid's lunch money?
What about THEIR needs?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I cannot tell you how many lunches I skipped because I didn't want to be the odd one. I know, it is an irrational thing to think, but teens aren't always rational. I would gladly pay more in property taxes for this to happen here, and I don't have anymore school age children. K&R
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)no child should go hungry.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)there is no profit in that
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)I especially like that it removes bureaucratic impositions from teachers.
--imm
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)now no kid has to be labeled as poor.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)my kids were in the small minority not getting free lunch. they had to bring their money daily, then finally weekly. teachers counting nickels is total bullshit. lunch tickets and inquisitors.
yeah, paints a target on the "rich" kids, too.
i strongly believe that making sure kids have plenty to eat, and especially feel secure in that, pays dividends we can never even measure.
and for what? a dollar a day?
please
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I mentioned upstream that I was on the free lunch program for a bit growing up. The stigma made me skip too many lunches. To this day I never eat more than twice a day.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)and my kids got bullied out of their lunch money.
no win
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to fixing both problems.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Sienna86
(2,147 posts)Too many kids come to school hungry.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)breakfast in the classroom bag meals are getting common. cheaper to give them all breakfast, and have fewer problems.
blue14u
(575 posts)Congrats to NYC for being so progressive
and liberal...
#VOTEBLUE2014
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)blue14u
(575 posts)I lived in NYC in the mid-80's. Some of my favorite lifetime memories were lived on the
streets of NYC... I <3 NY
Good for NYC for making it happen for all children...
not just for some there. I'm so happy...
#VOTEBLUE2014