Re: the requirement that the state *provide* an education

In article <64idnZ05jb0mlBfVnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Clisby says...
>
>toto wrote:
>> On 25 Jul 2008 05:33:45 -0700, Banty <Banty_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>>What rattles *my* cage is that this is supposed to be such an
"everybody knows
>>>that it's true" thing that this was a "whoosh"???  I'm beginning to
wonder where
>>> folks are getting their information to think kids from poor families
are
>>>swimming in freebies, because around here, breakfast programs are only
in the
>>> preschool years.
>> 
>> Interesting.  Breakfast programs in the inner city Chicago High School
>> I worked were available to all of the kids and the poorer kids got it
>> free.  There was breakfast at the elementary school my granddaughter
>> went to in Louisiana (magnet school) and I believe it was available in
>> all the elementary schools in our suburb.   It was before school
>> cl***** began and it was free for the poorer kids, but available on a
>> pay basis for others.  I think that is true here in the Houston area
>> as well, though I have not checked on it since my granddaughter does
>> not go that early and I have not been a substitute here yet.
>> 
>> 
>
>As far as I know, it's available in all the schools here (all the 
>regular public schools, that is - not necessarily in the charter 
>schools.)   The monthly school menu published by the school district 
>shows breakfast available at elementary, middle, and high schools.  I 
>think about half the students in this district are eligible for free or 
>  reduced-price school meals.

OK, OK.  Possibly I just haven't checked or kept track - I haven't heard
of it
being set up since very early grades at least.

But still - a breakfast program alone seems hardly enough to claim
wholesale
leechdom on the part of some parents.

Banty