The school nutrition legislation signed into law by Obama will cost the federal government $4.5 billion for free school lunches. It will expand access to free lunch programs. It will provide after-school meals for 20 million children.
Gosh, when I went to school we went to learn our ABC's and to learn how to add and subtract. Lunch was just the break we had in the middle of the day. No one got free lunches, and I went to school with some very poor children. In fact, I was one of them. My mother made payment plan arrangements with our school principal to pay for our lunches.
We've turned our schools into social welfare institutions to the detriment of our students. We're teaching them that the more their parents make bad choices and shirk their responsibilities, the more welfare they'll get. They're so busy eating free breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and suppers that they don't have time to learn how to read and write anymore. It's sad that our nation's schools have been turned into soup kitchens.
"After-school need already met." The Dallas Morning News; December 19, 2010; p. 2P.
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