My son went to his daughter's school today to pay for her school lunches in advance. The lady asked him if he had filled out the application for free/reduced price lunches (everyone is supposed to fill it out whether you qualify or not). He said he had, and she got out the paperwork to look at it. She acted surprised and said this was the only application she had seen for the whole school whose parents make too much money to qualify. She then told him "people lie on the applications all the time" and suggested he submit a new application with modified information. There are several hundred kids at this school. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that my son's family is the only one who doesn't qualify. And, the clerk suggested that he commit fraud in filling out a federal form!!! And people wonder why we are $14 Trillion in debt!!!
Un-Freaking-Believable. The lunches are only $2.00 per day at full price. Sorry, but, if you can't afford to get your kid a $2.00 lunch, you really need to stop getting cable and cell phones...
Hahaha.... So... that means I've got you by a score of 10-0...
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My guess is that the school loses money if the kids don't qualify for the reduced price lunches. The Federal Government, which has been known to pay $400 for a hammer, probably pays the school $4.00 apiece for those $2.00 lunches. So, the school is incentivized to promote the submission of false documents.
Last edited by ipscshooter; 10-21-2010 at 10:33 AM.
do kids not bring their lunches anymore? is that banned?
They can bring their own... Maybe it's a convenience thing. Easier to go to the school and pony up $40 per month. And, when the kids' parents are committing fraud to get them for free, why bother to go to the store to buy bread and lunch meat and fruit, and baggies, and brown paper lunch bags, etc., etc., etc.
Found this with a little research:
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The math is plain: About half of schoolchildren receive free lunches. On average, the cheapest of those lunches now costs $2.66 to prepare, the School Nutrition Association calculated. But the federal subsidy for a free lunch is only $2.47. That means schools lose at least 19 cents on every one of the 15 million free lunches served every day.
Counterintuitively, schools lose even more money when students pay full price. The average charge for a high school lunch is $1.90, the association found. The federal government kicks in only a 23-cent subsidy for those students, meaning a loss of at least 53 cents on every lunch sold at “full price.”
The above calculations are for high school lunches, which I suspect are larger and slightly more costly than grade school lunches.
HALF!!! of school children receive free lunch. HALF!!! I've never had a free lunch in my life. Well... I take that back. Last week, for boss's day, the staff cooked home-made dishes and brought them up here for a boss's day lunch. Didn't have to pay for that... At least, not directly.
My brother and I qualified for "free" and/or "reduced" growing up--we always paid full price, because my dad didn't believe in hand-outs, especially when we could come up with the money (and I do remember it being tough to do at times). My son pays full price--my wife lost her job this year, so we'd probably qualify for free or reduced for now, but no way I'll do it.
Funny thing--when my brother's kids were born, the gov't WIC rep. tried REAL hard to get them to sign up--he wouldn't. I don't remember if they tried with me or not. I do know of people who have bragged about feeding their horses with WIC stuff, people who have huge houses with in-ground pools getting it, etc. It's a broken system.
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In my position, I am privy to all records. It is amazing how many economically challenged families we have making over 100k a year. I don’t quite understand it. We have one campus that has over 95% economically challenged. You would never know it by looking in the student parking lot. Kids with King Ranch truck, Mustangs, and parents driving Escalades etc. etc. And not a single kid is deprived a cell phone. Not to mention the bling. We have had several kids on that campus with grills. You know those stupid looking gold mouth pieces loaded with diamons. One kid lost his and his mother screamed at him, "Im not spending another thousand bucks on you a new one". You know all that important stuff.
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