Wisconsin school district opts out of free lunch program for students

[left-of-center2012]

A Wisconsin district's school board has opted out of a federal program providing all students free lunch, making it the only district in the state to do so, according to WISN.

The school board in Waukesha had opted into the program when it began in 2020 as a response to the coronavirus pandemic but decided not to renew its status going into the school year.

"As we get back to whatever you want to believe is normal, we have decisions to make," Joseph Como, the school board's president, said in a June meeting. "I would say this is part of normalization."

Another board member said
the program enabled families to "become spoiled," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Young students in grades lower than high school who come to school without a packed lunch, money or an accepted lunch program application,
may be given cheese sandwiches ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/569766-wisconsin-school-district-opts-out-of-free-lunch-program-for-students

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/08/25/waukesha-students-there-really-no-such-thing-free-lunch/5573671001/

[LakeArenal]

1. Miserable pricks. Talk about who's spoiled.

Cheese sandwhich. What you having for lunch Vos?

[raging moderate]

2. "Now it's only 40 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."

"Now it's only 35 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 30 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 25 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 20 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 15 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 10 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
"Now it's only 05 minutes before I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..."
(Me, through most of my school days, before school lunch programs for poor kids)

Teachers, please make sure these kids have something to eat!

[left-of-center2012]

3. "the program enabled families to "become spoiled"

[Lovie777]

4. Feeding children make them spoiled? . ..

these motherf***ers have no soul. Anywho, the monies supplied by the Federal Government can be sent to a school district that cares about the children.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. School lunches should be free for all in the first place.

[Luciferous]

7. Yes! I used to work in school kitchens and it's heartbreaking to tell

a kid they can't have their lunch. When we moved my kids still had a good amount of money in their lunch accounts, and I had the school use it to pay off other student's lunch accounts.

[Ziggysmom]

6. Waukesha is very red. I used to call it Walkersha when that moron Scott Walker was governor.

Full of A-holes who do not want any lower income folks living in their area. How stupid turning down available Federal dollars?

[sybylla]

8. Yep. Free lunches means a minority person might get something for free.

Racist, reich-wing a**holes.

[pansypoo53219]

9. GOPland.

[alterfurz]

10. Having grown up there, I am here to tell you...

...that when our state finally gets the enema it now so desperately needs, "Walker"sha is exactly where the tube should go.

[Jimbo S]

11. I live in Waukesha

The article fails to mention the school board would revert back to the old program where the disadvantaged would get meals.

Hungry kids in Waukesha weren't going to go hungry.

Disappointed in the media coverage.

[left-of-center2012]

12. Did you read the links?

DU guidelines prevent us from posting everything, thus the posting of links for the full story.

"Waukesha students from low-income families will still be able to apply for free or reduced-price meals under the traditional National School Lunch Program."

[Ziggysmom]

13. I feel for the poor kids in school, afraid others will tease them about getting free lunch.

1 in 7 kids in the US is food insecure. Often kids will skip free school lunch because of stigma that comes from other kids criticizing them.

Sounds like the repugs in Waukesha backpedalled. Remember not a single republican voted for the American Rescue Plan that will help reduce child poverty. Repugs rally for the fetus but don't give a shit once they are born.