Now The Fed's Have Hot Dinner Programs At School

 

First, it was lunch and then breakfast- now it is free hot dinners in public schools.
From the Capitol Times: Just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, as Falk Elementary's Safe Haven after-school program was winding down, students lined up to wash their hands for dinner.
The menu for the Madison School District's new dinner program included turkey sandwiches, fruit cups, broccoli and chocolate milk.
It's healthier food than the soda, sugary candy, snacks and fast food some students will eat before going to evening activities or homes with working parents who prepare later meals, after-school program director Kelly Zagrodnik said.
"A lot of our kids are busy," Zagrodnik said. "(The dinner program) helps them do an activity and not run to McDonald's."...
Unlike the lunch program, eligibility for a free dinner is based on whether the school qualifies for the program based on school poverty rates, rather than the income level of an individual student. So any student participating in an eligible after-school program can eat the dinner meal for free....
The program, starting at Falk, Black Hawk Middle School and Memorial High School this year, will eventually include hot meals and a salad bar. It's projected to cost $65,000 for the three schools this year, with the cost covered by a $2.86 per-meal federal subsidy.
As dinner programs have expanded to school districts across the country, conservatives have criticized the federal program as government encroachment on the responsibilities of families. Don Severson, president of a local conservative school watchdog organization, was skeptical a dinner would be able to increase participation among parents working two or three jobs.
"It's just another attempt at government taking over and schools being detracted from their mission of education," Severson said. "It should be the parents' responsibility to feed their kids."

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This is just a screwed up program.

If you are rich but your child attends a school that is poor, your kid gets a free dinner.

If your kid comes from household that is poor but goes to a rich school, your kid is told to go to hell.

Other than when a kid goes home to sleep, how is school any different than jail?  They are locked in a classroom all day long while getting lunch and breakfast, and then attend an after school program for a few more hours and then get dinner.  Other than not getting a bed, how is this different than jail?  And just wait for the daycare after school and night after the Coalition for Night Shift Workers Who Complain get their way and have schools open 24 hours a day.

Finally, when does it become a parent's responsibility to feed their kids?  And if the parents are that poor and receive food stamps, then the parent ought to lose $3 a day in food stamps for each meal their kid eats at school.

Fortunately, here in Las Vegas, we don't have this program.  Yet.  But I guess we all know who to blame for this program.  The pimp of Welfare and jailer of kids, King Obama.