All That Money
- Chicago Public Schools staff set up tables with free lunches at 100 locations across the city for the first day of the LunchStop program this year.
The lunches are served outdoors to make it easier for kids to grab a meal and are meant for all Chicago children under 18 — not just CPS students. The program aims to make healthy meals more accessible to students and the community even when school isn’t in session by bringing lunches to spaces that are familiar to children.
Government taking the roll of parent once again. Now how about Workhouses and Sweatshops so the taxpayers can see some return on their investment?
Labels: dumb ideas, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
64 Comments:
How much food did not go to good use, and was, subsequently, thrown away?
Maybe Groot can get some soup kitchens going for the students with hugh tuition debt until the other socialist/communist/democrate Bernie "everythings free" Sanders gets elected and gets somebody else to pay their tuition bills.
They ll be screaming and spoiling themselves for raises soon too.
If the schools are making lunches for everyone, why do we need to pay AFDC?
Why?
Wife is CPS teacher, she hates the job. Their union is anti-CPD. apparently that's courageous. They don't produce much talent. Way too much drama at these schools.
Free lunches for all is a joke! Why are the teachers paying, in comparison to us, so little into their retirement but they get all this FREE money to spend. I’m under no illusion that the CPD doesn’t waste money mind you. The CTU is a modern day mob! Hate to say it but it’s true.
Ok so if they are getting free lunches, can we deduct that amount from mamma's EBT card?
Hey why not? The Dem. candidates are offering free college, forgiving college loans, reparations to blacks, reparations to gays, reparations to drug dealers ( not making that up it's true), sanctuary cities, open borders, free education, housing, healthcare to illegal aliens, and the list goes on! Today Bill de Blasio said everyone show get two weeks paid vacation. Who will be the first to offer a: BRANNN NEWWW CARRRR!!? Oh don't forget WE are paying for all this so these asshole Democrats can get elected and give away the country.
Broke government indoctrinating the public to rely on Big Gov to solve problems. Self reliance and personal responsibility abandoned.
Enjoy your government cheese, plenty more where that came from. Watch some depravity on TV after lunch.
I am glad the schools are feeding kids. If the parents cannot or will not care for the kids, or families can't or won't, then I'm glad someone does, so the kids don't suffer and go without food. It's not ideal, but it's the world we live in.
“The program aims to make healthy meals more accessible to students and the community even when school isn’t in session by bringing lunches to spaces that are familiar to children.“
Hasn’t that always been the responsibility of the parents and family?
If we are feeding them, where is food stamp money going?
What are the parents doing with their food stamps and welfare money? Why are we getting taxed twice for this?
Anonymous said...
Free lunches for all is a joke! Why are the teachers paying, in comparison to us, so little into their retirement but they get all this FREE money to spend. I’m under no illusion that the CPD doesn’t waste money mind you. The CTU is a modern day mob! Hate to say it but it’s true.
6/25/2019 02:12:00 AM
Teachers pay less into their pensions because their union negotiated it.
signed a Cop whose wife is a Teacher
the sons and daughters of the so called greatest generation sure raised a bunch of fucking morons.
everything is free and reparations to boot.
You're just letting the parents off the hook for feeding the
kids. That's just more $ for drugs, gambling, TV's, cellphones.
Pretty soon we'll educate these kids on THC for anxiety.
This is not something new. This summer lunch program has been in existence for many years - at least 20 that I know of. The luches are also provided to some day camps or church programs that have summer programs for children so that they can have a lunch. Unfortunately, this is the only meal of the day that some kids get. I'm for working for things too. But I'm okay with giving a starving kid a lunch if their family can't or won't.
But we got no pension money do we.
maybe CPS should stop the Jon Burge classes and start teaching students how to be parents and take care of their own children instead of government doing it.
Here is the map where the schools are giving free food why not since some of the homeless there at least then they can get a decent meal and some snacks to eat all day I would advise sending them there real simple to do;
https://cps.edu/ScriptLibrary/MAP-SummerMeals/index.html
Definitely going to send some of them there because they need to eat also will you
need to set this up on the Mag Mile so the kids can grab a bite to eat ,grab your cell and get a free CTA ride home, make for a nice afternoon for the tikes
If you don't work then you don't eat. I am sick of the free loaders. Now fully fund my pension.
They would NEVER ask or request the takers in this city to do any kind of work for the free shit they get.
I get so confused these days. In the same day, the government and the Left will tell me kids are starving and then later tell me that the kids are obese. Which is it?
"The program aims to make healthy meals more accessible to students and the community..."
"Healthy meals"...that's the tip off that they are still serving the same shit that Michelle ordered and nobody ate because it was such shit.
If i self identify as a chicago kid, can I get a free lunch all summer? And a free everythong else at everyone else's cost whilst causing mayhem?
So sick of these free loaders and the morons pandering to them
I witnessed one of these food giveaways last year. The kids were playing in a playground and came over as soon as the table was set up. The kids were respectful and the CPS employee was friendly and seemed to know them.
The kids went to a bench and ate. They shared their preferred foods with each other. One of the kids traded for an apple because "his mama likes apples" .
I know all these programs aren't all like this example but this one was not bad at all.
Welcome to the nanny state, where the democrats assume minority folks are INCAPABLE of managing their own affairs, of raising their own children, that the Government's role is to regulate, administer, monitor, and provide basic parental functions. Never any assumption that a parent's DUTY is to feed, clothe, educate, and supervise their children, that a parent is ACCOUNTABLE for their child's upbringing, behavior, and social-progress. Nope. Entire legions of democrats campaign and govern on basis that "Government" needs to do this.
And all this "Government intervention" does is perpetuate a nanny-state of childlike-adults who take no responsibility for their actions and non-actions. You can't get a well=paying job (except with City of Chicago or Cook County) if you read at 3rd-grade level, if you can't dress yourself in appropriate business attire (no gangbanger outfits), can't comport yourself in the King's English language with grammar and syntax appropriate to business environment (again, except if employed by City or County).
Case in point, go to airport, go to international terminal, and see all the Aviation employees "hanging out" on their phones, ignoring exhausted air=flight patrons debarking at the gates, except to bark "instructions" at them, to load them like livestock on to those dirty buses (no light-rail service for past year), acting "Ghetto" all the time. Trib's written two articles regarding deplorable inter-terminal conditions at O'Hare, without noting obvious problems with City's own terminal-operations staff.
Nope, instead new Lightfoot administration hires another high-paid administrator for a newly created departmental leadership role: "Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Susan Lee". Coming from another SJW think tank "Safe Chicago Network at Chicago CRED", she'll spend more taxpayer money to further the nanny-state. Never any discussion of personal accountability, nope. Never any discussion of parental responsibility for their adolescent children's bad behavior and petty criminal activity, nope. Just more free summer-time CPS lunches, more free cell-phones, more welfare benefits, more aid to undocumented immigrants, more ineffective government interventions (at great taxpayer cost), to "mitigate lack of opportunity". It's double-speak denial of truth - these gangbangers aren't interested in accomplishing what it takes to fit into civil society,
"I am glad the schools are feeding kids. If the parents cannot or will not care for the kids, or families can't or won't, then I'm glad someone does, so the kids don't suffer and go without food. It's not ideal, but it's the world we live in."
LOL. Yeah. Because so many kids look malnourished and starving.
Obesity is the real problem in America, not hunger.
Volunteers will hand brown bags out to the youngsters on the Mag Mile, nutritious well-balanced fuel for their exuberant escapades of robbery, theft, harassment, and mayhem.
6/25/2019 04:14:00 AM
Easy solution- don’t have kids
Well, easy if you have one brain cell.
How about using that money to hold parenting classes. Teach the parents how to shop and make inexpensive meals for their own kids and then how to sit down as a family to eat at least once a day. Much more important to keep the family unit they have kids just grabbing and running with lunch.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am glad the schools are feeding kids. If the parents cannot or will not care for the kids, or families can't or won't, then I'm glad someone does, so the kids don't suffer and go without food. It's not ideal, but it's the world we live in.
6/25/2019 04:14:00 AM
Actually, it's part of the teaching experience. Teaching the 'student" how to get free stuff and not have to work so he can survive in their older years..
For all the money being spent on summer programs, free lunches, increased policing levels and whatever else, we might as well just institute year round school for the little darlings. Teachers could work 2 semesters and then be relieved with new teachers so they can’t claim they are being overworked. Rotate in and out. CPS and CTU have long held a stranglehold on the city finances with poor returns for money spent. Maybe this sounds crazy, but at least these kids would not be running the streets and terrorizing the public for 3 months of the year.
maybe CPS should stop the Jon Burge classes and start teaching students how to be parents and take care of their own children instead of government doing it.
I'm sure that "healthy meals" translates into "food that would gag a maggot." The city's rat population will have a heyday when the grab and go lunches get tossed into alleys, gutters and along sidewalks.
During school they get...
Free Breakfast
Free Lunch
Free After School Meals
And now during summer there's...
Free food for any kid
I'm all for 'feeding starving' people, but just ask anyone whose involved in the program and if honest and forthright, they'll tell you about all the waste in these programs.
It's smoke and mirrors to take away from the dismal teaching results, (reading and comprehension skills and the <50% completion and graduation rate.)
They give us servers when they need teachers.
We don't need to feed their belly, we need someone that can feed their brain.
A pander and appeasement play towards "Tha' Communierty"
to please not set this city on fire this summer...
Meanwhile?
Lightfoot still blames The Police for Dude Inc.'s
continued public and out loud display of their love of
and sensual pleasure in chaos, death, destruction, discord,
willful ignorance, joyous hatred of all decent things, insane
jealousy of those who have decent things because they WORKED for
them and anger/resentment because those who work/worked aren't
too keen on continuing to "share" with those who refuse to...
Heh...
Lightfoot is of course, all ears to the "community stakeholders"
who would love nothing more than seeing the hands of The Police
cinched ever tighter behind their backs...
"Because The Police aren't engaged enough
with the community."
But nobody has shit to say about why "the community"
has failed to positively engage with upright, law-abiding,
order and peace-loving society?
"The Community" very loudly R E J E C T S
such positive engagement on their part.
But loudly demands that society owes them a "duty to care."
Can any community member be troubled to publicly put forth
any cogent, linear and ordered discourse in this regard?
>Tick-Tock...<
>Ambient Sound<
>Airybody standin' around with their hands
in their pockets and their eyes cast upward
as if asking the sky "Why?"<
"That's RACIST!"
They DO despise a question so crafted as to not
leave room for their diversionary "Straw Man"
to run around howling while his hair is on fire
and his hind parts are starting to combust.
>WHOOOMPH!<
"YAAAAAHHH!"
Reasoned and dispassionate discourse where everyone
involved is actually adult enough to stay on topic,
gives Progressives and the perpetually outraged the
the tummy rumbles and hershey squirts because they
cannot abide being unable to control and skew the
narration.
"So why are you cops so..."
(Or some similar such)
>Look of benign but studied dismissal
(Look through a silly m/fer...)
and continued forward motion<
Silly m/fer now actually feels silly
for asking such but tries to play
their bogus societal pecking order card.
"Gasp! He IGNORED ME?!"
(To no one in particular)
Police Like You Have No Friends.
Look.
Point & Laugh.
Leave.
Anonymous said...
Wife is CPS teacher, she hates the job. Their union is anti-CPD. apparently that's courageous. They don't produce much talent. Way too much drama at these schools.
6/25/2019 01:52:00 AM
Same here, but she's the bread winner now that I'm retired, better health care plan and other benefits, c'est la vie...
We are going broke supposedly, but there is always magic money for leftist nonsense that wastes cash and produces nothing. We are painting police vehicles with rainbows for Gay Pride celebrations while the shitheads at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District are ordering cakes with rainbow colored frosting to celebrate Gay Pride and honor the two openly gay commissioners on the board of the sewage treatment authority which is supposed to treat waste water and dispose of solid waste.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am glad the schools are feeding kids. If the parents cannot or will not care for the kids, or families can't or won't, then I'm glad someone does, so the kids don't suffer and go without food. It's not ideal, but it's the world we live in.
Have to agree with the idea of feeding the kids. What I don’t agree with is it should not come out of our tax dollars, which make up 53% of our property taxes, but should come out of grants, foundation contribution and private contributuon
Serious question - what happened with those Mobile Markets'renovated CTA buses that rolled through "underserved parts of the city" to "bring healthy and affordable produce"? Are they still rolling?
This isn't paid for by CPS or CTU, It's a program of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which is funded by donations and grants. 1 in 5 kids in Chicago don't know where they'll get their next meal and this program makes sure they 1) get fed and 2) get it in a safe place.
Why the hell are you criticizing a program that makes sure kids get a meal? Otherwise they'd be left to eat cheetos and drink soda. This is actually a good thing.
Did you see the Kosher stickers on the sandwiches, I didn't know we had so many observant Jewish kids that are starving.
"The lunches are served outdoors to make it easier for kids to grab a meal and are meant for all Chicago children under 18 — not just CPS students. The program aims to make healthy meals more accessible to students and the community even when school isn’t in session by bringing lunches to spaces that are familiar to children."
The lunches are served outdoors so kids who are "serving" on the corners will be able to grab a meal and not miss a "sale" if they went in to the school.
So the food is served outdoors. Who was the brilliant person that thought this up. By having kids grouping up around tables of food outside leaves them vulnerable to drive by shooters.
It's amazing that the government keeps coming up with new ways to give out more free stuff. What's even more amazing is the citizens who are paying for it, don't get any of it, and don't complain about it.
Healthy meals? These look like those "healthy" meals they used to give us on those details where you couldn't leave for lunch. Cheap white bread with mystery meat loaded with nitrates, processed oily american cheese, with a glob of mayo on one side and a glob of butter on the other. Those apples will be thrown at moving vehicles.
The average of the person in line for the free lunch will be about 28. Many of them are still in 4th grade.
"Workhouses and Sweatshops"
Could not be lower quality output then what 'made in China' has given us...
Anonymous said...
This isn't paid for by CPS or CTU, It's a program of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which is funded by donations and grants. 1 in 5 kids in Chicago don't know where they'll get their next meal and this program makes sure they 1) get fed and 2) get it in a safe place.
Why the hell are you criticizing a program that makes sure kids get a meal? Otherwise they'd be left to eat cheetos and drink soda. This is actually a good thing.
6/25/2019 01:40:00 PM
How about PARENTS asshat that is who should feed the kids your another sjw right?
As a CPS teacher, let me first say how much I appreciate the sacrifice and dedication of the CPD. I hate seeing so much negativity written here from officers towards teachers, because many (like me) are grateful for what you do in our schools.
As far as the comments about our pension contribution, it was given to us in lieu of a raise. It allowed CPS to keep $$$ in its system and benefitted teachers in the long run. It was something our union negotiated-- I wish the FOP would follow our lead for you guys. Secondly, I see the same scumbags that many of you deal with, but not all these kids are bad. Some need guidance and are receptive to love from anyone, because they have so much negativity in the streets and at home.
In other words, if we can reach them BEFORE you have to deal with them, we all win. Hungry mouths have no ears... please remember that. I know many of you hate the labels given to you by armchair citizens who know how to do your job better than you-- trust me, I live in that world too. Just remember, we are not enemies. I would estimate 75% of teachers love the CPD-- and the in-fighting in CTU should prove my point. Many of us are hard-working people who have a few bad apples that stick out and they seem to represent us in the media...does that sound familiar????
12:11
It doesn’t come from your taxes, but, like you hoped, private donations and grants.
Let them eat Italian Beef
Like Jagger said, "wet or dry"
BTW, he don't know WTF that means,
but his advance "local culture team" threw that in.
ALSO, they really Don't know how many times they played
Chicago, they got people for that!
Is this to fight “poverty”?
So their “parents” can afford those $200-$300 gym shoes?
Why the hell are you criticizing a program that makes sure kids get a meal? Otherwise they'd be left to eat cheetos and drink soda. This is actually a good thing.
6/25/2019 01:40:00 PM
Well then, maybe DCFS should investigate what mama is doing with the LINK if the kids aren't getting fed properly.
I don't mind helping those truely in need, but to finance someone who makes poor lifestyle choices is another thing all together.
CPS does not pay for it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about using that money to hold parenting classes. Teach the parents how to shop and make inexpensive meals for their own kids and then how to sit down as a family to eat at least once a day. Much more important to keep the family unit they have kids just grabbing and running with lunch.
6/25/2019 09:12:00 AM
That would be a good idea. Twenty five years on, and I have yet to walk in on a call where the family was eating together at a kitchen or dining room table.
More FREE shot for the community. Enough is enough.
‘At least the kids are getting a meal’ ? Ok, I get that, but then what are the parents doing with the money and other benefits they get from the state?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why the hell are you criticizing a program that makes sure kids get a meal? Otherwise they'd be left to eat cheetos and drink soda. This is actually a good thing.
6/25/2019 01:40:00 PM
Well then, maybe DCFS should investigate what mama is doing with the LINK if the kids aren't getting fed properly.
I don't mind helping those truely in need, but to finance someone who makes poor lifestyle choices is another thing all together.
6/25/2019 08:27:00 PM
I would agree with your first sentence if DCFS had competent employees. With regard to your second, grade school kids aren’t making “lifestyle choices.”
If, as some people are saying, that the money for this program isn't coming out of the CPS budget, but rather from private donations, then why isn't the program being run out of the CPD CAPS offices? You want to create better trust between the "community" and the police? Then let the police be the good guys for once. I don't have a problem feeding any hungry kid, and we have plenty of "house mice" in CAPS that can hand out sandwiches for three hours a day. Maybe it will introduce a whole generation of kids to the fact that the police are actually the best thing that happens in their neighborhoods. Can someone call the new Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and give her this idea. Free of charge.... I'm just an old retired republican voter. Don't need any accolades. Trump and I are just trying to make America great again.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
CPS does not pay for it.
6/25/2019 08:30:00 PM
lol …. more free shit paid by federal government
Kids are starving! Childhood obesity is an epidemic! Holding opposite ideas in your mind simultaneously is a symptom of insanity.
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