Weigh in - State lawmaker wants to ban people from using food stamps to buy junk food

I did ask. You did not respond.

I'm sure your boss and the children from your caseload would be thrilled that you are discussing their abusive situations on a public forum. The conversation was about school lunches for poor kids. and you take it to extreme with your lengthy dialog about abused children. There is such a thing as too much information.

I remember as a kid seeing commercials about how wasteful the US was with people starving all over the world and now we have kids starving here....

I am the principal of 740 low income students who you would send to a trash can for lunch? I am horrified by your insensitivity. How dare you? Poor children get someone's scraps if they are available? All children deserve to be treated like Kings and Queens despite their wealth status and the very idea that you would want to feed some children someone else's trash is the most inexcusable argument I have EVER HEARD. Please rethink this from the perspective of that child, and take it back.

You know what is sad? Food is thrown away every day in cafeterias. And if a kid really needs feeding, can they have the food that' gonna be thrown away? No.

How in any way have I said feed them from the garbage? I believe I said that a child that needs food, or feeding, can't have the food that's gonna or going to be thrown away. In other word, I think we should feed the kids 1st, than even save it for seconds because I know we have kids that go home to nothing.

So how dare you attack me for something I did not say. If I were you, I'd be ashamed to admit I was the principal when your comprehension of the written language is so poor.

Well... let's see...two people took your post the same way, so I guess our reading comprehension is just fine and maybe you don't come off they way you think you do. I know you think you are some kind of writing expert based an the shear volume of words you use in every single post you make. You need to un-clutch your pearls and re-read the post with fresh eyes.

My husband was a high school principal for a low income area. Schools serve a finite number of people. Most buy lunch tickets in advance. Schools plan carefully and have a small budget these days. They throw out very little unserved food. It's not like a restaurant where they have to guess how busy they will be and estimate how much to prepare. The massive waste is from kids throwing away uneaten food. There really is no other way for me to take your post if you actually know how schools operate.

100% this, Rocky. School cafeterias are typically funded minimally; they don't make excess. In my high school, for example, there are very few, if any, leftovers after the last lunch period.

In order for kids to take advantage of uneaten food, they would literally have to station themselves at garbage cans to take advantage of the foods that are being wasted (usually vegetables, btw).

We do have a station where kids can place unwanted foods for others to eat, but they have to either be covered fruits (oranges/bananas) or unopened milk. Otherwise it is a safety concern.

I think it's great that there's even a place to put "unwanted" food items. I hope people can retrieve the stuff, with minimal embarrassment

We have a good school culture. It doesn't seem to be an issue. And, if there are leftover milks, for example, certain teachers with refrigerators take them. Kids know they can help themselves to the foods in those teachers classes at will.

Ditto the station at the elementary school I work at: any fruit, unopened milk or factory wrapped good (cereal pacs, graham crackers-cookies,etc) and yogurts are available to any one whether they bring, buy, or bring no lunch at all. No shame, it's called sharing the wealth.

Your last sentence? That is an attack.