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In reply to the discussion: Without paperwork, school lunch free in Boston [View all]Response to alp227 (Original post)
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If they would set up a fund to help defray costs, I'll bet many families would chip in.
mountain grammy
Sep 2013
#2
They have set up a fund to help defray costs. It's called the Federal income tax.
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2013
#21
It's not free, someone has to pay for it. While I am in favor of not beating people over the head
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#4
I'm sure that will come as great comfort to the kids and adults who get less food when we cut food
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#13
they aren't cutting food stamps to adults to pay for kid's lunches, just not happening
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#31
You use the term "free" in the way that you criticize here, lots of times in fact, hypocrite
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#68
I'm flattered you looked it up. I didn't say the word was bad, I said it's use in this context was
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#70
you said it's wrong to call something "free" when it costs someone else something
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#72
It's only a stigma if you tell them they are a cost, that they are getting something for nothing.
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#11
That is incorrect. Kids have to be taught class difference, to hate, to look down on people with
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#88
I didn't say it was about hate, I said it is something learned, just as you did...
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#91
Thanks for stating the obvious to some. In my youth I avoided using my lunch card
adirondacker
Sep 2013
#87
I'm sorry but I could explain to young children why it's free for them and not the teachers.
Gormy Cuss
Sep 2013
#9
What is not age appropriate about telling a kid kis parents, and everyone else's parents, work
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#14
It's not goddamn free. That is a lie. Over half of their parents work to subsidize it
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#16
Don't even call others in this thread stupid for calling the program by its name
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#29
I'll call 'em like I see 'em. And if grownups aren't smart enough to do something other than
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#44
if you're trying to create a wedge between providing all childen food and nutrition and the left
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#50
I see the people who feel a need to lie to 6 year olds, and 9 year olds, and 12 year olds as weak,
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#55
accusing others of lying when they call the program by its name is a low thing by you
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#57
To maintain consistency, you never refer to "Social Security" as such, yes?
LanternWaste
Sep 2013
#58
No, not much reason to be an ass, but interesting that you would suggest that.
jtuck004
Sep 2013
#53
federal government has been paying for all free, reduced cost and a bit towards every meal...
Sunlei
Sep 2013
#17
go a step further federal gov., all senior citizens can lunch at their local public schools.
Sunlei
Sep 2013
#18
But I bet you remember plenty of kids with little to eat. Thin, wan children
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#32
Nope,there were none in my working class neighborhood in Boston. There were no
virgogal
Sep 2013
#37
Right...just like there were no families on relief or getting church baskets.
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#56
so you're saying if you knew them, and they had a job, their kids didn't starve to death
CreekDog
Sep 2013
#39
There's, uh, kind of a continuum between "proper nutrition" and "starved to death." (nt)
Posteritatis
Sep 2013
#89
My kids had "no paperwork" free lunches in elementery school -- our youngest is now in college.
hunter
Sep 2013
#64
Return to Sanity. Another defeat for the Randians. I blame Obama! As do they...
freshwest
Sep 2013
#78
This sounds like a very good idea to me. I assume that parents who wish to can continue
totodeinhere
Sep 2013
#84