I recognize this is a local story but stop and consider: this is one of several school districts in my immediate area. The piece does not say, but I assume most, if not all, follow a similar policy. How many children are involved in just one program? What is the cost?

Does your local school district follow a similar program?

One last thing: I cannot tell you how many times we hear messages of how many children go hungry due to lack of available food and won't we please help?

Zitat

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KENNEWICK, Wash. -- The final bell at area schools is close to ringing, but educators say they plan to keep cafeteria's open to feed hundreds of children who need the nutrition.
Leaders with the Kennewick School District released a list of 14 schools that will provide free breakfast and lunch this summer. They've tailored the locations based on areas with the biggest need and schools offering summer activities.

The district says it's essential to provide proper nutrition for their students year round especially when there are schools in the city with 50 percent of children relying on free and reduced lunch.

"It's really meant to bridge the gap between the end of a school year and the beginning of the next one so that way we can make sure that kids suffering from food insecurity in their homes will have a meal," said Kennewick School District's Nutrition Services Director Sam Shick.

Any child up to age 18 can come for these meals during June, July, and August say district leaders.

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http://keprtv.com/news/local/ksd-announc...ee-summer-meals

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2

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There's never ANY talk about lifestyle changes, is there?

For the Lib, poverty is an affliction, like MS or cancer.

Just as guns don't kill, it's people, poverty is so often a mindset of the people, the result of lifestyle choices.

Why not teach them to fish?

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Poverty may be a contributing factor but I see it as far more likely the parents of these children see it as a way of getting out of the drudge work of feeding their own kids, and, hey, it's "free".

permante voter base is the goal of feeding kids all day.