Dozens of Hawaii schools serving free meals over summer
ASSOCIATED PRESS / MAY 2011
In this file photo, Elbert Estes serves pizza to students at Kalihi Elementary School.
Free meals will be served to children at around 70 public schools across the Hawaiian islands over the summer.
The Hawaii State Department of Education said today that most participating schools will serve breakfast and lunch on weekdays.
For a school to participate, at least half of its regular students must qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The school also has to be offering a summer program, but students don’t have to take classes to get the meals.
Assistant Superintendent Dann Carlson says some students miss out on meals over the summer. He says he’s grateful so many schools stepped up to participate this year.
The Department of Education says the program will begin in early June.
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Awesome news! If you want to take some money out of my paycheck for this then feel free to do so. Oh you already have. Ummm okay? Can I ask what the children’s parents will be doing towards this effort. Of course I know there are many children who truly need this assistance and I want to pay for it. But here in Hawaii I think there may be very many where this is not the case. It’s really sad, I feel bad for these kids. So many useless parents. The economy and unemployment rates are as good as it gets. Anyone who wants a job can get one.
Yes and we pay for the staff, facilities, utilities and food.
If they NEED assistance, then their family already HAS food assistance via EBT cards. Just need to get up off their lazy $%# and MAKE a sandwich for THEIR kid!! UNbelievable! And THIS is the school district that complains about budget constraints?
I couldn’t have said it better.
Yeah I used to make a sandwich with ketchup and that was my lunch.
They won’t make a sandwich. They’ll waste $ and go buy a Lunchable.
The students don’t have to take classes to get the meals. It is actually a learning experience for the kids on how to get free food and skip class. Amazing
At least Ike IKEA has a fishing pole to catch his dinner. What is the life lesson we are teaching the homeless. It is not ok to accept hand outs. Go out and earn it.
I’m sorry that you don’t understand how Summer school works. Your comments suggest that you would have attended Summer school a lot.
Oh great wise one could you kindly explain to us less fortunate how summer school works?
sarge22 – It would help if you would start performing the slightest research before writing ridiculous comments. But that’s too much to ask of you, obviously.
Summer school is not mandatory, so many – probably most – of the students who are getting meals do not “skip class.” That’s how it works.
klastri-I guess I do understand how summer school works and the kids can skip class and get free food. Most of the kids will probably attend class and some will just get free food. That is rather obvious even to you.
I’m certainly glad the State of Hawaii is doing so well financially.
I feel bad for children that don’t get enough to eat. However, free (not for taxpayers) handouts are not the answer. People who aren’t feeding their children need to be reported to “child protective services” and some kind of punishment need to be dealt to these abusive parents. Parents need to be held responsible. Otherwise, it just will continue and escalate so that the taxpayers will be paying to raise every child in Hawaii.
Especially important : Do not give free food to fat kids!
Do you write your comments from prison?
What? Another entitlement? What about the elderly who have to split up a can of Vienna sausage six ways.
It’s that seventh sausage that jams things up.
Feed ’em and make sure you put a check mark next to parent’s name. Losers!
Sorry to sound so heartless and cruel but providing free meals for children at certain schools is just plain RIDICULOUS!!! Nothing more and nothing less.
Yes, you’re correct. Your comment was heartless and cruel. Good analysis.
I’m not against offering “free” school lunches, just not to illegals.
I’m also against allowing illegals to attend “free” schools.
Sure, that makes sense. Be sure to prevent any hope of them contributing to the society they find themselves in. Make sure the long term cost is absolutely as high as possible. Great thinking!
Trump will round up the illegals and send them packing. They will have to climb back over that wall with the ladders only on our side.
Mr. Trump is fortunate that so many people are gullible and poorly informed. It’s amazing what his supporters will believe. Amazing and sad.
All you grinch above do understand that this is for the unfortunate kids,right? And that most of you stingy azz grumpy probably pay minimal tax (disable,over65,SS etc) so you have no say. Hey, how did you guys get this way?
Tired of seeing second and third generation welfare folks working the system. Do you get it???
(and the labor costs are minimal since school cafeteria workers are 12 month employees. Often, during the summer, those who don’t take vacation are assigned to custodial crews. It is however, necessary to make sure that normal maintenance takes place and that if more extensive repairs are necessary, that Facilities crews have the opportunity to get in and do the work. Once the regular school year begins, cafeterias are very busy places.)
Don’t try using facts and the truth here. Those concepts are poorly received by the Trump crowd.
Sounds like a lot of people don’t know how humiliating it is to be singled out because you are poor and hungry…Grow-up ANGRY People! Punishing the innocent children who have weak parents is not the way. And the fool who suggested lunchables and peanut butter sandwiches…WOW you are a genuine okole-puka! I can only hope your years left on this earth are good…I’m sure we won’t see you in Heaven!
This forum seems to be largely populated by sociopaths.