Re: DOE Lunches and Deadbeats and Deadheads.
- From: "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:15:07 -0000
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 m.purves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I consider it likely that neither one of yopu has a
kid in a local public school at this time ...
(whereas I do, a few months longer)
Quite true. They've been gone for a long time now.
Jerry Okamura wrote:"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1142210104-sch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In today's Star-Bulletin,
http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/12/news/story01.html
I am surprised that so many parents don't even
apply for free or reduced lunch for this kids.
Teachers or
It's a 'shame' thing. The parents have to tell the
school that they qualify. Apparently no big thing in
Hilo, as I heard that all but 1 of the feeder schools
of Hilo Intermediate/Hilo High are title 1 schools
(more than 50% free or reduced lunches). It's like
the parents who refuse to file FAFSAs because they'd
have to declare how much they earn.
This much hasn't changed. But IIRC the article mentions
that another major problem is that children of
immigrants just don't really know.
the school wind up lending money to the kids. And
some parents do this purposely, claiming the
teachers and schools are fools for lending their
kid IIRC about $75.
I dunno. It seems the entire system is upside down.
The purpose of an education is to educate. A hungry
child is not going to concentrate on the lessons as
a well fed child it seems to me. The local media
from time to time tells about how schools are trying
to get kids to eat something that is good for them,
by denying them access to "junk food". It seems to
me what some of these schools feed the children when
their parents are not paying, falls into the
category of "junk food", and if it is not "junk
food", it certainly does not sound very nutrious to
me. I would prefer a system where you feed the
child, regardless of whether their parents have paid
or not, then try to get as much money as you can
from the delinquent parent, not punish the child for
the acts of their parent.
Hilo High doesn't work like this at all anymore. You
can't just go and pay for your lunch. You have to pay
first, preferably for several lunches at a time, and
before school. If you don't get to school before the
place where you have to pay closes (8:00, Hilo High
doesn't start until 8:15) you can't get lunch.
Yes I recall that the article does say that the
cafeteria adds more to the kids card because the
teacher or the schools pay for the kids. But it's still
lending the kids the money.
For all the money that we taxpayers pay for
supporting our public education system, it woud seem
to me that our government could come up with the
money to fund this shortfall, which for the most
part is only temporary anyway....
One should think that paying for those lunches really
shouldn't make much of a difference. Of course they
are already subsidized by the DOA anyway (I very much
doubt any school lunch costs under $1.- to supply and
prepare).
That's the point. The Board thinks that parents
shouldn't have any excuse for their kids not having
lunch. Cost shouldn't be a reason.
.
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