I am pretty conservative, but feel like this program is a good thing. When my sister was teaching kindergarten, she told me some pretty disparaging things about some of the parents treatment of their kids. She taught in a school that was in a real low income area, not a school in CS is anywhere near as impoverished. She said many of her students on free or reduced lunch plans were dropped off by parents driving lexus and mercedes. These parents were dressed up in designer clothes. She said they would drop their kids off in the winter unbathed, wearing shorts, no socks, holes in their shoes, clothes that they had clearly grown out of. Not only that, but that these kids would show up unfed, and be so hungry they could not function in class. She spent a ton of her own money keeping these kids fed, always brought stuff to school for them. I doubt she was allowed to do it, but did. I always made it a point to give her some money to help with supplies and some of these kids. I have to agree with Stupe, the meal provided could well be the only one they get every day. When it comes to kids, it really is not their fault. CSISD does a terrible job with our tax dollars, and burns millions on bureaucratic illogical garbage. I would say this program actually benefits the kids directly, and how our money should be spent.
GIG 'EM
