John,
We came home for lunch in my day ('50's)
Only the kids who rode the bus had to stay in for lunch.
I can see the grade school from my house, but my kids took lunch in bags.
There are fewer stay at home moms to fix lunch for kids,
and it's easier to control the day if you keep the kids in school.
I always thought of the school lunch program as a conspiracy between
the USDA and the Wisconsin Dairy farmers to get rid of surplus cheese.
I changed my mind when I learned about school breakfast programs.
It's a sad state of affairs when the kids come to school to hungry to learn,
and when the parents are so negligent. At least this feeds them...
Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:20 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: "Tanya Love"
>>
>> Oh, another cultural difference there - we TAKE our lunch to school with
>> us
>> here - we don't have "cafeterias" that serve
>> Hot meals to our kids. We do have "tuckshops" where the kids can place an
>> order in a brown paper bag (or online now!),
>> and have it delivered to their classrooms, but most kids only do that like
>> once per week, as a special "treat", or when,
>> like me, their mums haven't been to buy groceries and can't work out what
>> to
>> send them for lunch! Lol.
>
> The dirty little secret behind American school cafeterias is they're part of
> the "socialist" agenda.
>
> See, reformers somehow got the idea in the early 20th century that sometimes
> poor families might not have money to feed their kids, but they didn't want
> "charity".
>
> If the school served a nutritious lunch every day to EVERY child, the
> "charity" of feeding the poor kids could be disguised, and at least they
> wouldn't starve to death. It's linked in with such communistic ideas as
> mandatory school attendance and the abolition of child labor.
>
> It served a couple of other purposes as well. The schools bought most of the
> food locally putting a little money into the hands of local farmers. The
> rest of the food came out of USDA "surplus", reducing that surplus, saving
> the USDA warehousing costs and making room for them to buy more food to keep
> up the price supports to agri-business.
>
> And the school cafeterias gave a fair number of women jobs. Workfare, not
> welfare.
>
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