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Originally Posted by Pete
And that whole Free or Reduced Lunch program is a big crock of warm, brown smelly stuff.
The schools push the Lunch paperwork on one and all here in Cumberland County. One year the local paper even ran a series on the scam.
They have to check something like 1.5 - 3% of the applications and the paper found that something like 40% of the applications lied about their income. As the school handed the parent the rejection they also handed them a new application - since they had checked the required numbers and would not check the new one for that year.
To the school system its all about the money.
And the kids without cash money for that days lunch? Always the same ones.
Hey Momma! Don't want your kid to go hungry? Pack them a brown bag lunch.
Oh, that takes time and planning.
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And if you can't afford to pack them said lunch, have the courtesy to say thank you to those providing the free lunch to your child, instead of complaining about what is being served.