Yesterday, Woodville Elementary School hosted Governor McAuliffe, the First Lady, Mayor Dwight Jones, Dr. Bedden and his cabinet, Congressman Bobby Scott, Sect. of Education Anne Holton, Delegate Betsy Carr, Delegate Delores McQuinn, School Board members Don Coleman, Mamie Taylor, Tichi Pinkney-Epps, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and others for a press conference to announce a grant to end childhood hunger. Woodville Elementary is one of the beneficiaries of this multi-million dollar grant to help end food insecurity for our students by providing 3 meals a day during the school year and food subsidies over the summer.
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From Zachary Reid at richmond.com:
Students at some Richmond schools and in seven localities in the southwestern part of the state will have expanded, year-round access to food as part of a new $8.8 million federal grant Virginia has been awarded.
The children will receive a third meal before leaving school every day, and they will also participate in an off-hours program aimed at making sure they get healthy food when they’re not in school.
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Richmond should be ashamed.
Yeah, it’s great that some kids will benefit from this grant. But where’s the city? Richmond has the cash to bribe a brewery to move here, and to guarantee the brewery makes good profits, but can’t pay for decent schools and social services for its residents?
Sure, the brewery will provide some jobs (but not many), but how many of its better-paid employees will even live in the city and pay taxes?
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How does this overlap with WIC and SNAP? I may be misunderstanding how these programs work. Regardless, all for ensuring that these kids get regular, healthy meals. I realize SNAP is “supplemental”, but was under the impression it was relatively more generous to households with children.
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WIC is a program for pregnant women and pre-school age children (the “I” in WIC stands for “infants”). And SNAP, though it helps keeps many families fed, is only for meals at home.
In America, we have many children who go to school hungry, often so hungry it’s hard to concentrate on studies (yeah, this is sometimes the fault of bad parents, but the hunger is still the child’s). Some parts of the country see to it that these children get something to eat in the morning, before school starts, in addition to a free or subsidized school lunch.
A healthy start in life and in a child’s formative years is key to success later in life. Thus, a civilized society does its upmost to see that ALL children have medical care, adequate nutrition and housing, and a decent education. Some states and cities do that; others are unwilling to undertake the expense when public funds can instead go for items that make middle-class voters happy.
K, ever heard of parenting and the personal responsibility that goes along with being a parent?
Your ignorance is showing Jeb.