All Kids Will Eat Breakfast

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   Journal- July 9 story- Money from state and federal funds will be used to reimburse the school districts to feed breakfast to ALL students, because "a good breakfast makes for good learners". I can understand the need for offering a free breakfast, using taxpayer money, to feed a disadvantaged student. However, I am having a problem with feeding everyone's kid, knowing the difficulty with finding money for the schools.How many kids will actually take advantage of this? Will this extra cost of providing a free breakfast really help students learn or is this just a supposition on the part of the Food Research and Action Center? What is the evidence of credibility to these claims and just who is this " Food Research and Action Center"? This is, no doubt, alot of taxpayer money being used for a program that may or may not be effective.Should we just take this verbatim or should we question taxpayer expenditures like this? It's your tax money they're spending.

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VietVet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008	Post Options Post Reply Quote VietVet Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: All Kids Will Eat Breakfast Posted: Jul 09 2008 at 8:00am
	Journal- July 9 story- Money from state and federal funds will be used to reimburse the school districts to feed breakfast to ALL students, because "a good breakfast makes for good learners". I can understand the need for offering a free breakfast, using taxpayer money, to feed a disadvantaged student. However, I am having a problem with feeding everyone's kid, knowing the difficulty with finding money for the schools.How many kids will actually take advantage of this? Will this extra cost of providing a free breakfast really help students learn or is this just a supposition on the part of the Food Research and Action Center? What is the evidence of credibility to these claims and just who is this " Food Research and Action Center"? This is, no doubt, alot of taxpayer money being used for a program that may or may not be effective.Should we just take this verbatim or should we question taxpayer expenditures like this? It's your tax money they're spending.

spiderjohn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749	Post Options Post Reply Quote spiderjohn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 09 2008 at 8:52am
	I believe the meal will take place in the classroom during normal school hours, andnot separately/before the sdtart of the school day. Supposedly it is too time-consuming to take place in the cafeteria.I don't think the teachers are happy about this, since they become responsible for cleaning the mess. Someone please correct me if I don't have my facts straight. Why does our govt. feel the need to over-provide? The parents/guardians must accept the responsibilty to prepare their children for schooling, which includes, proper nutrition,clothing, mentoring and adequate rest.

Vivian Moon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vivian Moon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 10 2008 at 6:05am
	Spider It's not a teachers job to feed her students breakfast in the morning. The parents need to be RESPONSIBLE for their children. They need to get up and feed their children breakfast and make sure their homework is completed before they go to school. If the children are coming to school hungry their parents need to be called to discuss the problem.

Pacman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 02 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2612	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pacman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 10 2008 at 6:38am
	When I lived in Florida my sons school had this program in his elementary school each morning and this was 4 years ago. Each morning the kids were fed in the cafeteria. Now the funny part about this program and I never understood why it was at his school as his school was a neighborhood school where the homes sold for $200,000.00 to over $1,000,000.00, so these people could definitely afford to feed their kids breakfast yet it was offered for free each day by the school system. The kids looked at it as more of a social time to be with their friends and enjoyed it a lot.

HereIam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Resident Joined: Oct 29 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 108	Post Options Post Reply Quote HereIam Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 11 2008 at 3:36pm
	I can understand why schools in impoverished neighborhoods would offer this to their students, but students in wealthier neighborhoods definitely do not need it. By offering it to all students in every school, it's just another government overkill.