Whatever happened to packing your child's lunch (re: Cheese-gate) [View All]

[Liberal_in_LA]

Seriously. Isn't there a middle ground between paying for lunch and having your kid embarrassed at school? the kids look
well fed and healthy so I'm assuming their are getting good meals at home. It's cheaper to pack a lunch than buy one.

I'd pack a lunch for me kid BEFORE I'd let them be embarrassed at school or applying for the school lunch program

Yeah, sometimes you can't don't have the $1 in the morning, but is the cupboard totally bare?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29385572

Her mother, Darlene Vigil, said there are days she can't spare lunch money for her two daughters.

"Some parents don't have even $1 sometimes," the 27-year-old single mother said. "If they do, it's for something else, like milk at home. There are some families that just don't have it and that's the reason they're not paying."