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In reply to the discussion: Without paperwork, school lunch free in Boston [View all]Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)52. I get your point. Nothing is ever really "free".
But in this thread you are coming across as ridiculous because you seem to want to beat six-year olds over the head with it, instead of just letting them eat their mystery meat and then going outside for recess. They are NOT the target market for your message.
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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