Free School Lunch Program Is Ending, Leaving Families Scrambling
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2022
- More than 26 million free meals were served to students every day because of a federal free school lunch for all program that started during the pandemic. Now, that program is ending and families must apply for meal coverage, but only certain incomes meet the requirements. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda spoke with families directly impacted and looks at how one school district is trying to meet the need.
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Free meals should be available to all children. As a former teacher I have seen first hand how hungry tummies make learning difficult.
Yeah, most definitely!! Every teacher knows a student does so much better on a healthy, full stomach. It should come as a given.
I very much agree 👍
Or maybe people should stop having so many kids if they're having trouble keeping the fridge filled.
@@napalmsf how are u gonna tell humans, who have a biological instinct to reproduce in order to spread their DNA and genetics, to stop doing the one thing we are biologically wired to do?
@@napalmsf thats what im saying
So, we can afford to feed Prisoners for free, but not children.
Oh, that's right. Prisons are a profit based system, and Education costs. Got it.
1,000% agree. Your comment is way better worded than mine!!
Sad reality right
@@hsaid3263 So true.
Average Capitalist in America: *"Perhaps if government legalized child labor, these precious little gifts can get some meals"*
Exactly! The congressmen who invest in prisons don’t make money off of the public school free lunch programs.
"The challenges of feeding America's children" is a phrase that no American should ever have to hear.
I’m 61 years old and when in school both my brother and I were on the free lunch program in high school, we lived in a low income household and both my mom and dad were so grateful for this program because they knew we would get a decent nutritional meal for lunch which took the pressure off of them of trying to scrape up money either for the cost of a weeks worth of lunch money or trying to buy extra food to make lunch for two high school kids when they truly didn’t have the money for it. I didn’t understand when I was younger,but neither of my parents would ever have seconds or in my mothers case at times she would not finish her supper plate and give to my brother or I what was left on her plate,but I understood as I got older they made sure we had enough to eat even as they still may have been hungry. This is a very sad story
We are about the same age when I was in high school and you were on a free lunch program people make fun of you. And most of the time they didn't like the food.
@@1990758 I grew up in a rural community and the ladies that made our lunch did a great job and yes some people would make fun of us but at least we got to eat
@@susancoddington6393 True but let's be realistic. As I am going out in about shopping. supermarket or department store. You would never think anybody is struggling. I honestly don't think parents have any problem with making their kids lunch or giving them money for lunch. Of course if it's free you're gonna take it. I grew up in the sixties we were poor. But I got everything I wanted I got Christmas presents every Christmas. I think the term people are struggling is totally Look at how high gas prices were but that did not stop people from driving traveling or what happened.
@@susancoddington6393 If you go to any junior high school or high school that has open campus. At lunchtime all the fast food restaurants are packed. I've seen kids at 7:00 in the morning going to school eating cheese and nacho.
@@1990758 Well I’m very happy you got everything you wanted,we would get a new toothbrush and socks for Christmas it sure wasn’t what I wanted for Christmas and I know it wasn’t the only things my parents wanted to give us for Christmas,so when I say we were poor I mean we were really poor and grateful for the free lunch we received,I suppose you missed the part of my comment where I stated my mother would give us her portion even though I know now she was hungry,so please don’t insinuate that we just took free lunch to take free lunch,income guidelines had to be followed,as far as making lunch,when you only have so much food in your pantry it’s kinda hard making lunch for two high school kids if you don’t even have enough to eat yourself,so I completely disagree with your statement that of course if it’s free everybody will take it,actually it was embarrassing for me and my brother as teenagers in a rural high school because everyone knew who was on the free lunch program because our lunch tickets were different so please don’t judge anyone until you walk in their shoes and yes your statement is judgmental.
If prisoners can have free meals, so can students.
Right
I for the life of me, can’t understand why this comment doesn’t have over 1,000 👍🏽. They treat prisoners better than the most important, and vulnerable population in the country.
More powerful political grasp via the union. That and America has more money invested in the prison system and keeping kids down produces criminals.
Good point
Y’all don’t understand what you’re talking about. Go back to school and then go to prison and see which life you like best. Kids should be fed, but that is not the determinate factor here between prison and schools. Puh-lease.
Considering the billions of pounds of food that gets thrown away in this country, free school meals should not be an issue. Vote people into positions of power to make free school meals permanent. Give every child the nutrition they need to grow and thrive.
Actually, we need new,honest people to Run for those offices So we can vote for them.
Well... NYC is putting migrants up in hotels that cost $700 per night. Imagine how many kids that could feed. And that doesn't include other benefits that they are giving.
And all the billions were giving to the Ukrainian CHARIT STARTS AT HOME Write Nzncy Pelosi and Biden
I remember watching a video where a mother recycle restaurants left over food and sell it real cheap in the Philippines.
It's on UA-cam.
@Orbite Flow What about the ones who get charged for meals when they qualify for a free one? Low key lunch lady makes money
This is heartbreaking honestly. We are still in a pandemic, this program should extended.
Almost every news story or documentary that features parents and children suffering from food insecurity shows people who are overweight or obese. Food insecurity is greatly exaggerated.
So your telling me we can send 40 billion dollars to Ukraine but our tax dollars can't afford to feed our kids?
Well said. Wouldn’t be nice if “we the people” just chose to provide free, quality meals to all of our children regardless of their parents ability to pay? How wonderful it would be for them and the future of the US?
💯 illegals before our own kids???
yeah, let's make sure the corrupt creep Elensky has enough for food
Bu...But Ukrainian neo Nazis good Money for America bad CNN said so reeeeeeeee. 🤭
We can leave 500 billion worth of military hardware in Afghanistan too.
I will never understand how anyone would be against children getting free lunch. We pay taxes for public schools to provide a safe and healthy place to learn. That would include feeding them because children can't learn when they are hungry.
Because dead beats are popping out children and refuse to shell out $2 to feed them. Or make their own lunches.
@@Cynthetik Just feeding the kids is wrong? But we feed prisoners. We spend more money on wasteful crap that doesn’t help anything except those who pocket it. We send billions overseas but we can’t feed students. Shame on you for being a fake American.
There was a time when PARENTS fed their OWN kids instead of sponging off of taxpayers. Free lunches aren't FREE. I'M paying for them and I DON'T EVEN HAVE KIDS. WTF?
Psychopaths and narcissist are the types!
@@Cynthetik it should already be part of our taxes Instead our funds going to over paid useless Board Members getting paid to hold a vote to change the name change of schools,
When I was a teacher, I personally bought snacks for my students. Even a free school lunch isn't enough to feed growing high school kids. It ran me dry, but after awhile, you know which students need it the most. You don't become a teacher for the money...🤷♀️💜
Starting pay is high, 3 months vacation, unions to protect you. Not sure how you say its not for the money.
@@Na_bruh I don't know where you live, but it is NOT high. For someone with a graduate degree and a teacher's certification, my pay after taxes, teacher's retirement, AD&D, insurance, etc. is barely enough to pay my car payment and mortgage, gas, and put food on my table. You obviously are NOT a teacher...
I starved my whole childhood at school because they said my mom made to much money when she was earning $7-$8 an hour and always denied our application for free lunch and no father because he was murdered. I would sit there and talk to my friends while everyone around me was eating, they had ham and cheese sandwiches for kids who forgot there lunch money but the lunch lady would always make sure I couldn’t get one because I never had money, mind you it happened all of my middle school years and even after in high school. The school system sucks and fails a lot of innocent kids.
Yeah it was always messed up
I suppose being a pro-life politician is only for the unborn children, not the ones who are alive and hungry.
They are not pro life but more like anti women.
Thats both sides. Good luck.
You do realize democrats control both house and senate.
They're hypocrites! They don't care about human lives other than themselves and their community 🙄
Lol yeah exactly
I don't have kids, but I was a child who relied on the free lunch program. There wasn't enough to go around at home and in the summer we struggled. I know it broke my mom's heart to have to yell at us to keep us out of the fridge until mealtimes, even if we were hungry and wanted a snack. There just wasn't enough. It shouldn't be an issue to put tax money towards feeding children at school to ensure they are all fed. If there can be a three-martini lunch tax break for business people to write of their lunch we should be able to feed the kids.
If we use more tax money it's hurts their bonuses at the end of the year.
The tax breaks for the 3-martini lunch went bye-bye a LONG time ago.
I live in Florida and it is very much a thing here.
Absolutely.
We can't use all of that wasteful military industrial complex, corporate tax breaks, wars, global aide spending on AMERICANS HERE AT HOME IN NEED. On affordable housing, healthcare/mental, infrastructure etc. The Dem and GOP donor class wouldn't like that. We have ALLOWED these sociopaths to dictate policies that could make the MAJORITY of American lives better! #Vote3rdparty #RankedChoiceVoting
Growing up being raised by my grandma, I honestly and embarrassed but I couldn’t wait for school because I know I would get a hot meal at lunch time, but then kids would pick on kids that eat the school lunch. I feel for the kids and parents I hope things work out and no child is left hungry 🥹
When I was a kid I was always so embarrassed to bring my lunch to school because my parents just put together whatever was left over from dinner the night before. It didn’t look like all the other kids lunches. Now I’m just grateful I had something to eat and never went hungry.
kids should be eating, period. if your position on taxes, work ethics, economics, whatever, means that children don't eat then you are absolutely wrong. reevaluate your priorities.
That’s the responsibility of the parents.
@@dilsquid The parents are already doing so by paying their state and local taxes. Where do you think that money goes? It goes to the schools so children should be able to get their meals free since parents are already being nickeled and dimed to death with taxes. Learn where tax money goes before you speak about responsibility.
@@dilsquid and what about people whose parents don't care about them? Leaving little kids to fend for themselves is selfish thinking.
"No such thing as a free lunch." Ever heard that saying?
@@eliz6198 my parents did not care for me so i was given a tiny pie for lunch as a 6 year old. The lunch ladies felt bad for me so they signed me up for the free lunch program and i was able eat for most of my child hood until i was 16 and i was able to get my own job. I am sad kids nowadays will not get the same opportunities as I did.
Free meals SHOULD be permanent , as children are forced to attend school till 12 grade. 🤷🏻♀️
School isn’t forced you choose to send your kid
Schools are not forced on children…although you are perfect example of why it should be. Being ignorant about commonly known facts doesn’t make our society better.
@@audreyhicks7016 Where do you live where a Truancy Officer wont come to your house if your child isn't in the school system? Cause I'll tell you from experience. They do come.
@@SaintsandSushi Compulsory education is a requirement in the US. Any child must be registered in a school, or be tracked in their education at home. FAILURE to do so is enforceable under law. Parents can even be jailed for it.
Well we need to save the money now incase there is something our country wants to buy one day. We can't blow a bunch of cash on food for children. We have to think about the future.
No child should ever go hungry. I don’t understand how we can’t feed our children in America.
Simple. People without the ability to provide are breeding
I love finding this stuff on UA-cam. So sad to see but glad we're all being made aware of it.
As a student my school day starts at 7:45 and ends at 3:40 I'm at school for like 7 or 8 hours. How do they expect us to be at school for 7-8 hours and actually care about the learning material when all we can think about is how hungry we are.
Parents should be feeding their kids.
@@stayathomemarine yeah when they have them, I'd I'm in school for 8 hours and it's the schools responsibility while I'm there that should include keeping me fed.
@@stayathomemarine And if they can't afford and/or find food? What then?
I remember being in high school and my best friend and I would often split a lunch or she would "not be hungry and go outside" because she didn't get free meals and her parents couldn't afford to pay for her lunches. I didn't realize how bad it was then but now looking back, she was probably hungry many of those days. AND, she was athlete so I'm sure with all the exercise she must have been starving by the end of the day 😞
I remember when I was in high school we were allowed to go outside for lunch. My mother worked next door at the elementary school. She would bring my sister and myself food to the fence. She noticed we would give all our food away( cause we knew what it felt like to be hungry), so she starter packing extra food. We didn't really have much. My mother worked for the food program and would bring us what she could (stuff that was gonna be thrown out anyway).
@@aleakitty bless your mom
I was this girl. I would ask my mom for stuff to bring and she would say bring crackers and peanut butter.. it was better to go out then everyone realize your parents sent you with crackers
If she managed to succeed as part of a sports team in high school and wasn’t grossly underweight she was likely getting sufficient nutrition. People are dying in this Country BECAUSE of food, not because of a lack of food.
@@russellgrimes3491 facts!! And this program still allows for those who qualify 🙄 Judging by her home I'm sure she's alright even though I agree that the extra 1k a year would help 🤷♂️
I would literally have been starving every day if it wasn't for the free school lunch program. My mother was a single mother raising five kids working three jobs doing her best to provide she just didn't have enough to be able to send us to school with food everyday. Let alone the time to make lunch for all of us. I probably would have been packing my own lunch bag of one sandwich and a water bottle.
I hope we get local communities doing school lunches for kids, like the Black Panthers originally did with free breakfast before the government shut it down and then copied it. I will definitely be seeing what I can do in my community. Just because of family can't qualify for the program does not mean they don't need it.
I'm so sad for you and your siblings having to go without because of your mom's irresponsible decision to CONTINUALLY CREATE HUMANS WITHOUT MONEY. Women need to LEARN, NO MONEY = NO BABY. PERIOD.
The issue isnt a single mom with 5 kids… it’s the free school program.. this is crazy. Glad you ate but the issue is ur parents. Not the government
I absolutely agree that no child should go hungry, but it gets on my nerves that people who can't raise kids properly without leeching off the government have more than 1 kid.
@@jenleigh342 everything you just said was completely ignorant with absolutely no concept of how reality works.
@@indianatarzan7555 yes because there's no possible situation where somebody can have five kids and become a single mother other than they just irresponsibly keep having children, right? You can't think any more complexly than that?
What makes me so mad is there are so many places I know that throw away so much food at lunch time .. it’s ridiculous
“Aid should be targeted and temporary,” says the representative (R) objecting to free lunches for children. But wealth inequality should be institutionalized and permanent?! How would that ever work?
In Cali, they just ended the school lunch program too, but that’s because no one has to pay now. It’s free for all students.
My kids never ate school lunches in Elementary School because most parents at my kids’ school and myself, would prepare our own lunches.
But I understand there are plenty of parents that can’t.
Not in Los Angeles. LAUSD is providing meals free regardless family income.
In Santa Barbara County, free for elementary but not for High School.
As a former kid who went to school hungry nearly every day…this sucks.
They should keep the free food program at school and also improve the quality of the food. When i was in grade school, they served terrible food at times and didn't want to eat it.
California passed the law where all students get free meals they also changed the time to 8pm and 8:30 for High school students. All states should be like this. Free meals for all during school. Breakfast and lunch.
People shouldn't be having children that they can't afford to feed, Democrat.
I live CA, I was so happy to see thus. I don't have children, but this was great to know.
Newsom 2024 make America California
@@joevarga5982 lots of people can afford their kids when they have them and then run on hard times, a-hole. And by your logic, if only people who could comfortaby afford children had them, in a couple of decades there won't be anyone left to keep the country running. 🙄
@@joevarga5982 first off you have no idea what their parents are going through people loose jobs every day for all we know this country can get shut down again and here we go again so be mindful just because you’re blessed today don’t mean you’re going to be blessed tomorrow
Free lunches should be available to all children. We stay here in Texas & my grandbabies are going through this right now. What happened to feeding the children.
why are you having babies you can't feed and support ?
That is very disrespectful to say " cause you don't know me or my family. I took very good of my children as a single mother & working . May God 🙏 humble you .
@@shellysmith1037 You'd feel differently if it were you and your kids or grandkids who needed food and enough money to make ends meet. Compassion is better than blame or hatefulness. Maybe you'd feel different if you'd ever had to go without through no fault of your own. The OP didn't say anything other than a concern, and you assumed too much. Seems like she cares and you don't. Why insult people you don't know? Why not care about what's real-world instead of how you think other people ought to do? I wish you'd rethink things. Why blame the kids or the parents, if they are having trouble supporting themselves? You might have to go through that too sometime. Trust me, it doesn't feel good to be scared you won't have anything to eat. Be nicer next time, huh?
@@shellysmith1037 Have you forgotten that women in red states are being forced to give birth??????
@shellysmith1037 unexpected things happen. Families can lose their homes, parents can divorce, or fall into poverty. There is no reason why children should be paying to eat at a place they are legally required to be for 7 hours, while the government pumps billions into foreign wars.
Can't believe this! So 😢
We still paying high taxes for schools but they ending school lunch program.
You’d figure the “Party of Life,” the GOP, would want to fund free school lunches
Republicans only care about unborn fetuses and imposing their own morals on others
iF tHe pArEnTs weRn’t sO lAzy tHey cOuLd gET a rEAl jOB aND aFfoRd tO fEeD thEiR cHiLdren. nO gOVt hAnDoUts!!🤡 🤡🤡
They are pro birth not pro children
@@et-n6710 Best comment I've seen on here😂
Just pro not murdering babies not pro feeding illegal aliens kids.
i never understood how we can afford to feed people that are incarcerated but not the kids of America.
Thisssss.
💯💯💯💯💯
I can't understand how humans have become so domesticated to allow the federal government to give zero sh*ts about children in general.
Inmates make those corporations who own the prisons money. School children don't.
Prisons are privately run and they make a profit. Education is pure expense.
This is terrible! No child should ever go hungry! Greed is all I can say. No way in this nation should any child go hungry or be scared of going hungry at home! Sickening
I'm way more for extending this than cancelling student loans.
The truth is, we can’t trust ALL parents to feed their children or teach them everything so we as a society need to step it up for ALL children to reach the few that really really need it. Not every child is blessed with a loving supportive family, and even supportive families experience financial struggle. This benefits no one, DECREASE MILITARY SPENDING INSTEAD ??
free lunch isn't the problem. The lady in this story has two kids that she can't afford to feed. The real problem is: too many dumb, POOR Americans think that they are entitled to have kids and that society should pick up the check.
Have you ever thought that when those kids were born she might’ve been financially stable but once the pandemic began she started to lose more money?
@@liamjohnson2474 Exactly, and the comments in here reflect that.
People shouldn't be having children that they can't afford to feed, Democrat.
@@joevarga5982 stfu people who are financially stable can have kids but it just so happened that when this pandemic came and prices went up, more people were having a hard time keeping up
Those people are evil , how can you say something like that and don’t feed children evil .
4 years ago, most of these kids were not on a free lunch program and now they are reverting back to that same status, how is that bad?
@@bobroberts2371 because it's trash to not offer free lunch to children... It has always been trash.
We need clean house all this Nancy Pelosi’s and corrupt need to leave. That’s where major major money of us the tax payers money 💰 is going for their wage to sit on their butt and pass stupid helpless laws like this one bc of their pricey income. While we the people barely have to eat and now not even schools food free.
People shouldn't be having children that they can't afford to feed, Democrat.
@@bobroberts2371 In the Land of the Free and Brave and the Pro-Life children go hungry lmao. In my country schools offer free healthy food to all their students how come a nation so powerful can't do that. What laughable circus.
Back in middle school my family was low income but we weren't qualified for the program. My grandma had gone to the same middle school and worked in the cafeteria when she was my age, so I did the same. I left class a bit earlier for lunch to work and got free food and got extra snacks every Friday. The experience was rewarding and I don't regret it. I kinda miss it. I don't miss needing to do it though.
I grew up in Asia. There was no such thing as free lunch at school, so this concept is very foreign to me. My parents gave me money to buy food and snacks at the cafeteria. The tuition fee that we paid only covered the education/classes, we bought our own books, pens, and uniforms (mostly hand me down from my older sister).
Responsibility? I remember the salty processed school lunches with a serving of sugary canned fruit, apparently decades later most schools (excluding some exclusive neighborhoods) still serve these unhealthy meals to our children. Maybe try being responsible and feed our children real food! Maybe raise the income level, rents and food prices are going up and real wages are not! They gave out billions in taxpayer funds to corporations and even fraudulent non existing businesses and she has the nerve to stand there and to talk about responsibility by taking away children’s school lunches 🙄 SMH
For real. And republicans oppose all that, have done so for forty years, and are now suddenly concerned about poverty bc a dem is in the White House. Peak smh
Real food is expensive if you want real meals they would cost at least $5 each which would further exclude people who can't even afford to have kids.
Well said.
Let me tell you something, even if kids were given good nutritional quality Whole Foods, most would not eat it. They prefer junk. And probably parents would complain. I worked in school cafeteria. Sad to say but most kids only eat sugary and salty processing disgusting food.
@@burymebelowawillowtree9243 yes. I work in a cafeteria... honestly I think the food is OK. It's not overly processed but it's not that tasty since we have to follow nutrition guidelines. Whole grain and whole wheat, reduced sodium and sugar, baked not fried... makes food look sad and not tasty lol. And when I served at elementary, kids would bring in their own food ( hot cheetos and capris sun). But we always provided a fruit and salad bar which gets tossed out everyday since no one eats it.
Imagine being so cold hearted that you deny funds for food for children, those children who will one day be old enough to run the country. Horrible.
And then calling yourself "pro-life."
@@777Skeptic "Who cares once they're out of the womb"
Parents should be in prison. Child abuse
@@colinthomas867 poverty isn't a choice. Nor should the children suffer because of it. Feed the children. The US can afford it. Stop the judgement. These are different times.
What if parents were well off when the baby was born but then lost their jobs a few years later? I guess we can abort the 6 year old since Little Timmy is now poor.
I remember back when I was in elementary school I was one of three students who was not on the reduced lunch program as they didn’t offer free lunches back then. Then about halfway through the year because their parents were unable to pay for the meals they were unable to get lunches anymore so I used to ask my mom to pack extra in my lunches to feed the other kids at my table. Disgusting to think that after all of the strides we’ve made since then with the implementation of free lunches and even programs so that children can get lunch during the summer that we are all of a sudden cutting it.
I'm 70 years old and our family was one of the poorest in the 8 towns I grew up in before high school. I felt the pain and humiliation from having not nearly enough food. I know firsthand that it's impossible to pay attention in class on an empty stomach.
I’m 76 years old and I went to a school that you had to bring a lunch from home for 8 years and most of what my mother put in there was nasty and I never ate it. Then I went to a high school that had a hot lunch program that everybody had to pay for if you wanted it, there was no free food. But I never got it because the line was so long that you never got the food with any time left to eat it so I just didn’t even bother to try and get it because as soon as you finally got through the line it was time to go back to class. The halls were packed solid with students and it took forever to get to your next class and being a girl sometimes it was really hard to find time to go to the bathroom and heaven help you if you were late to class because you got sent to the office. So eating never happened till I got home, I only weighed 107 pounds and my mom was not a very good cook. I would make a peanut butter sandwich when I got home. We had to pay for the school bus ride too. Nothing was free. Then my sophomore year it started being my responsibility to cook dinner for my family and have it ready to be put on the table by 5:00 and take care of my little brother because my mom got a job.
it’s time to realize that having kids nowadays isn’t such a smart idea
Yes. If you’re broke stop having more kids
Exactly. That's the truth no one wants to hear.
United States would fail if only the elite had kids. For capitalism to thrive you need a booming population.
@@Bloombaby99 Especially the conservatives who are more than happy to force women to have said babies.
How can one even contemplate not covering school lunches. It is often the only decent healthy meal a kid has to rely on. A community needs to come together and support one another, and not create an unequal discrimatory class structure among based on lunch! My God - what kind of evil nastiness will some people come up with next? Kudos for the Denver school district that has assured lunch for all students! Time is long past to get that withered out-of-date and out-of- touch bitter old school board bitty in the blue dress out of our children's lives.
🤔 But everytime they interviewed fat people talking about not having enough money for food, I just can't sympathize. There are too many fat Americans whining everywhere we see. I'm pretty sure no one's really hungry here.
GOP at work!! 👎🏽
Chondra NYC back to momma’s basement with you liberal lackey.
for YEARS we have catered to deadbeat parents and enabled them....if parents can't figure it out, kids should be removed from the home. there are ways..starting with birth control...getting roommates when you can't support yourself, trading off free child care with another parent so you can work, etc...sure initially it will be more expensive to take the kids, but parents will learn they can't play the system anymore.
if the community wants to support deadbeat parents, take donations, not forced taxes..the PARENTS are the nasty ones being too irresponsible in most cases....not getting married 1st, not limiting the number of kids, refusing to get a roommate to share expenses, etc
Remember we spend Hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars a YEAR on weapons of war, and these spending budgets always pass with little to no pushback. But student lunches are always on the chopping block.
We moved a lot my whole childhood, pretty much every grade I went to a different school. Now stack that on top of being the youngest of 3 to a single mom with no money, who didn't seem like she wanted to be bothered with actually taking care of us kids, so most of the time I never went to school with a lunch or even having had breakfast. Of all the schools I went to only one had a cafeteria that sold food, and for the free lunch program I was given a punch card for 3 cups of noodles a week. Once in high-school I'd end up skipping school and stealing from stores in the mall to sell to other kids from school so I could get food, but then I got caught and was forever labeled a theif from my entire family, but even after dropping out around grade 10 I was fortunate enough to come out on top (which not everyone gets to be so lucky) and I now comfortably live the life I dreamed of as a kid. Kids shouldn't have to go hungry. Who knows how much better I could of done in school and early life in general, if I didn't have to spend the whole time thinking about how hungry I was.
Parents already have to worry about their children’s safety going back to school with all the school shootings happening last year and now we’re going to put more stress on them by refusing to feed their children without cash in hand first? I don’t have any words😒 I grew up on this program my mom depended on it so I could eat!!
Not just last year but the one that happened a few months ago in Uvalde. It's getting insane these times.
@@DarthVader-sp8fe well fyi it’s not like we’ve never been in these things before. Colombine & sandy hook
Seriously ? It was temporary.
The school lunch program was designed for the poor
People can get EBT? But kids can’t eat for free? This is just sad
WHAT! I grew up on these… our lunch teachers were amazing and would let us get extras if they had enough, for free! I honestly don’t understand why they’d end this!? It not only helped me but a lot of my friends.. this is very sad.
WE NEVER SHOULD TAKE AWAY FREE MEALS SERIOUSLY SAD....
yes only for poor kids rich kids need to pay only fair ttaxs
You do realize that they are not taking them away from people that qualify don't you? They are only ending the program that gave free lunch to everyone even those that could pay.
thinking about how much the free lunch program helped me out as a kid. hope they reinstate this.
It's $5 for my friends to eat lunch at school and about a little less for breakfast. I added up the costs and it's about $30 a week to eat at school. $30 for the week.
I don't have kids and I'm appalled to see free meals going away. Making sure kids aren't hungry is the least offensive purpose my tax dollars could go towards. Good on that Denver school board for doing the right thing!
Well In Arkansas where I used to live I’m definitely sure they’ll keep it going as my old school was in a small town has lots of programs for kids that can’t afford food clothes etc since a lot them come from poor families it was a nice thing to be a part of sometimes by donating food ❤️
Based on the comments it appears that some people took this as taking free or reduced breakfasts and lunches out of schools. It doesn't. It only returns it to just low income families that actually need these programs, rather than all children regarless of family income. In the video I saw a great many children eating packed lunches from home. Some kids are fussy eaters and others have dietary restrictions. Children from families that actually need this program will certainly not be going hungry. Hopefully returning to normal will provide higher quality food as well. In addition, if a child does forget their lunch money or packed lunch, no child should go hungry. It should be automatic that they will be fed. The parents only need to be addressed if it becomes a pattern.
The comments stating that a class divide will be an issue, apparently didn't watch the video very closely. Or understand that children from low income families already know that they are from low income families.
My outrage is that the minimum wage hasn't been raised in 13 years! The feds can apparently raise interest rates as often as they feel like it, with little or no justification. But raising the minimum wage to a living wage seems to be some major problem for our government. I call BS!
Its almost like a Ponzi scheme ran by the federal government.
Blame ron desantis the devil nazi government of Florida & GOP goons
And just think, the jump to conclusions without listening to the facts commenters might be sitting on a jury some day or even worse voting for someone that gave them food / water while standing in the voting line.
You're right about the news clip only referring to the end of a temporary pandemic-era program, not the end of free/reduced lunches for low-income students. But with the way grocery prices are lately, all families with children in public school will feel the pinch.
Also, the Fed isn't continually raising interest rates just for kicks, it's an actual strategy to combat further inflation w/out causing a recession.
Exactly. School Lunch was never free for 100% of the population. The people that were paying has to now go back to paying again. I don’t see anything wrong with that, the relief was only a temporary assistance. It’s selfish to want to continue receiving something that you’re capable of paying for.
My mom mom was a lunch lady for fifty years and would always act like she took the kids money that couldn’t afford lunch every day of the week. She used to say “they can fire me all they want!” Biden has a 500 thousand fence around his house. Low income children are starving at school. Something isn’t here
Biden doesn’t oppose universal free lunches…
The Republicans are behind this 100% look into it
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@@viktoryanokovich3699 Why do clumps of cells need free lunches?🤭😎
I had a girlfriend tell me about why the free lunch program is important. It's heart breaking to hear how common it is for people to not afford 3 meals a day. Even my college students in my own classes tell me stories of saving up just enough money to get to college but having to scrape money to eat. Or sometimes they're so used to not eating, it's not an issue for them.
As a teacher, it’s appalling how much food is thrown out everyday.
I am praying for children all over. This is not good
Well maybe god can magically rain down some manna bread like he did for Moses and his people who were stumbling around in a small desert for 40 years. Praise the Lord!
Youre prayers have gone unanswered. Maybe vote for people that will back up gasp* socialist programs that will make sure children and those in need dont go hungry
Why are you praying for clumps of cells?🤭
We as a nation, have got to allocate more funds for elementary and high schools. Teachers don't get paid their worth, and kids need to eat. Especially in turbulent times like these.
What about middle schools?
Are you aware that a lot of teachers keep snack bars and healthy trail mix:bars for.when children complain of being hungry? That teachers buy extra school supplies for kids when parents can't afford them! I only wish that people be more compassionate when it comes to children's needs. And a lunch sandwich, an apple and milk do not break your bank!
@@jenna_quinn6836i11 year old kids eat too! High school kids also get hungry! Granted some high schoolers can get a part time job ! And they are not getting in lline for the sandwich you provide!
And colleges! Why not colleges too? That doesn’t make any sense to stop at the high school? We can easily do that.
More indoctrination? Pass
Honestly if all of you don’t start phoning your local politicians about this and making it known your child deserves to go hungry. Every parent should be pressuring their local politicians so it can bubble up to the feds. This is simply unacceptable having kids go hungry in supposed world super power.
What is the government doing with all our tax dollars??? Smh...
I sat here and cried for 10 minutes because w t f how can someone be okay with a child possibly starving… all kids should have free lunch, they should be treated equal, a meal for a child isn’t a question.
@@raymond19001 some don't have the money for it
I remember I used to have a lunch box for school but when my mom and dad divorced I had to have school meals only and my stomach would always rumble I would be starving because sometimes they don’t put enough food on our plates
Can I say something? Yes I know for MANY children, for some of them, their only meals are school meals, BUT as someone who was a student for all the years (Like all of you), and I had two aunts who were lunch ladies, the amount of food wasted by the kids/students and end up having to be tossed by the school cafeteria is ridiculous.
You can look at Europe school lunches as they are not for profit and are ten times heatlier, cheaper and tastes delicious.
@@comicnerd420 I seen a UA-cam video of school lunches in other countries compared to the US definitely ten times better. My parents were raised in Puerto Rico for sometime and my dad told me school lunches were way better and less was wasted.
Very true...food waste is huge. Also, maybe parents should be responsible for feeding them their kids.
@@sharonwheat3659 Parents ARE “responsible” for feeding their kids…Are they able to ? some yes, some no !
I dunno I grew up in a low income school that offered free lunches for everyone so I would often bring some food from home and get a lunch and then break all that food amongst my friends, many of whom were too new to have working lunch numbers and be able to get lunch. Usually anything someone didn't want was passed to someone who did and piles of unwanted bananas oranges and milk cartons dotted the tops of trash cans on trays for any takers (I would drink like 4 cartons of chocolate milk lol). I've never experienced a food fight either. How can you say they waste food that's already been packaged and delivered for eating to the school?
My sister and I had free and reduced lunch when we were in school. We also got our book fees reduced, and 21st Century Scholars scholarship for going to college.
No one in America should ever go hungry, not ever. Especially a child!!!
We’re complaining about feeding our own kids now?
The US government spends over 46 billion dollars on farming subsidies. I think some of that help should manifest in food for children. The free lunches offered to all cost maybe $9 billion. How about cancelling farm subsidies until children have food security?
Spoken like a typical communist incel
Biden gave 80 Billion away to Ukraine. Talk to him
This country is so backwards. You have people who own several mansions while the majority of people and kids don't have enough to eat.
School taxes keep going up and the students get nothing. Shameful
I had to work in the cafeteria during high school because my dad couldn't afford to pay for my lunches!
Children should be above the "principle" that aid should be temporary.
2:48 "Our goal is to teach kids how to think" Wow that's scary
So here’s the thing I grew up in New Jersey, and we had people in our school that were very wealthy and we had people in our school that would’ve needed the free lunch program. I don’t agree with free lunches for all if you’re making more than say 100 grand a year you don’t need it you should be able to afford lunches for your kids. I would support raising those financial limits to be sure that every kid that needs it gets it. But if you’re making more than 100 or $150,000 a year it’s not our job to support your kids. But I would say raise those limits so that most middle and lower income families that could use the help receive it.
So we have money for ukraine but not to feed our kids! SHAME!
That's interesting because we just got a letter saying it was continued this year in my kids school.
Why don’t we cut the salaries of the top ppl make 250k -400k a year in the school board
So here in AMERICA lets make sure the prisoners get free meals for a lifetime and even tasty snacks etc. BUT our OWN CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE have to go hungry??? WOW!!!! This is pathetic!!!
Growing up, free food at my elementary school made me never want to miss any school days. Full belly i was able to study and learn as not much food was available at home.
There's still free lunch but you'd need to go back and apply for the free or reduce lunch program based on your income. As a single mom yes it hurts me but I applied and my son gets reduced breakfast and lunch at school.
Has anyone ever thought about not having children if they can't afford to support them?
Free school lunches in California for everyone. If your state legislatures won't extend the free lunch program, vote them out.
Newsom 2024 make America California
Yep. I have 4 school aged children. High school lunch is $3.50 a day (times two kids). Jr high lunch is $3.00 a day (for one kid) and elementary school lunch is $2.75 a day (for one kid).
In total that's:
$12.75 per day,
$63.75 per week,
$255.00 per month,
$2,295.00 per school year.
Mind you I pay federal taxes, state taxes and property taxes. My state had a 1 billion surplus of taxpayers money last year. They can't put any money into education or heaven forbid school lunches. They can vote to give themselves all a bonus and a raise though. The priorities of these politicians (no matter their political affiliation) is appalling. We all know they work for themselves and not "we the people "
You CHOSE to CREATE 4 HUMANS. You had a CHOICE. You could have just had one or two. It's not the GOVERNMENT who is RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR KIDS EATING, ITS YOU. PERIOD.
I struggled as a single parent and didn’t qualify for lunch for my two!
Spend billions on military budgets but can't spend anything on improving or maintaining School properly! Smh🤦♂️
when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, I went to school I had two brothers and a sister, we all got bag lunches from home, we ate either bologna sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly, or even sometimes a mayonnaise and tomato sandwich, and we were given money just to buy a little thing of milk. And my father was the only one that worked, my mother was a stay at home mom. If we didn’t like it then we didn’t eat. It’s To
Your point 🤷🏽♀️not every family can afford to give their children lunch from home 🤦🏽♀️
If the government is going to force women to have children maybe the government should help feed those children.
@@danielrivas3241 exactly 👏🏽
EXACTLY! Back then one person could afford to feed an entire family working a blue collar job. Today that is not exactly true, is it?
@@danielrivas3241 Maybe those women shouldn’t have children if they can’t support the kid. Not my responsibility to pay for someone else’s choices.
My father was a lawyer and my mom a teacher at another school. I didn’t qualify for free lunch and I often didn’t have access to food at home to make anything with. I often got “Pack an apple!” as a response from my mother when I asked. I watched as my classmates would eat two bites of their free lunch and throw it away as I stared greedily with hunger. By high school I got smarter. I noticed the free lunch goers would rather buy chips and soda than the lunch provided so if I managed to find a dollar which was not enough for a lunch it would be enough for their soda and chips. I’d exchange my dollar with them so I could get their lunch. They liked the deal and I got fed. I share this story to show that children of wealthy family are not always protected and many children slip through the cracks.
Your parents were neglectful. Feeding you would not be the taxpayers’ responsibility. Your parents should have been hauled into Childrens Court, and reminded their professional licenses were at risk.
If your parents were wealthy, you shouldn't have had to go through that. People fail to realize that rich parents fail their children as much as poor parents.
I’m in Cali and work for the free lunch program they just told us we got approved for 3/4 more year of free lunch what the heck is this we all had a big meeting in everything about it.
The US is Full of incompetence. So I go to jail if my kid doesn’t go to school. And you mean to tell me if I maintain enough to provide for my kids but still not eligible for any government assistance my child could be at school for 7 hours a day with no food. On top of all that I’m paying for Student Loans and Taxes. Give us a break!!
America will make sure Ukrainecis well fed tho and billions to fight their war
I'm 55 years old and had free lunches in school. All should be able to eat if they are low income.
It takes a Village! Moms that can feed kids in their neighborhoods should do so! I allow my kids friends to eat at my house often. When we were stationed in Okinawa there was a mom who suffered severely from depression and wasn’t cooking or shopping, he kiddos ate with my family that summer for dinner. We need to help each other. Even if it hurts your pockets Help!
Where I live elementary kids have been getting breakfast for years. They don't have a cafeteria and do not provide lunch. Sometimes the school orders from a pizza place and the kids can buy a slice for a small amount of money. Other than that, kids take lunches and snacks to school.
WHY is this ending. Unreal!
Reading a lot of comments basically agreeing that kids should just go hungry. Crazy.
it's sick isn't it!?
If their parents can't afford to pay they will still be covered under the free lunch program. Do you really want to continue to give free lunches to kids that can afford to pay?
@@bobroberts2371 Yes because some of those parents that can afford to feed them still don't out of neglect. My mother has worked at a headstart (preschool) for almost a decade. She told me alot of kid's only meal a day is the one she serves them at school. My mother gives them 2nds and 3rds even though she isn't allowed to. Because she has compassion, empathy and common sense to know a child doesn't need to suffer needlessly.
Someone commented that inmates get 3 meals a day... grown women and men who decided to make bad life choices. But innocent kids who are the future generation... oh well your parents shouldn't have had you.
We are okay with our tax dollars feeding criminals but not children.
I'm guessing most people in the comments did not listen to the video at all. It does not take away free lunch it just goes back to income restricted free lunch like how it always has been. People complain about everything.
They probably didn't watch the vid
you’re just here to high road. Now is not the fckn time to go back to these restrictions. People are WORRIED about everything. Have some compassion.
Bro why that’s so sad 😞 I hope this gets fixed
Since school is required for kids to go to, lunch should be provided. Now it be different if everyone had a choice to go to school or not.
Am I the only one who got entitled vibes from this mom? “If I pay for his lunch that’s over $1000 a year.” Girl that’s YOUR child. You should pay for his lunch not other people. What is wrong with these people