Questioning bill about
free public school lunches
House Bill 1779, the effort to provide free lunch to every student in 91直播 public schools, is described on the front page adjacent to the article letting us know that the promised tax cuts will be delayed. Well, with thinking like that, the delay will last a very long time.
We can’t make legislation based on anecdotes, and that’s all this article offers. How many students eat nothing but lunch at school? 10? 75,000? And shouldn’t the parent or guardian of every one of those students be getting a visit from Child Welfare Services?
Not feeding a child would, I imagine, count as abuse. The negligence of parents cannot be solved by dunning taxpayers for yet more money.
One number that is offered is the 10,400 students who qualify for reduced price meals. That means about 140,000 do not qualify.
Yep, a few/some/many/a lot are still struggling. How many? Who knows? Let’s just throw money at them and see who catches it. Surely, it’s a big number.
Now, I taught at an urban school for several years. Most of the kids there received lunch for free. Nearly all of them ate very little, if any, of the provided food.
Fruit? 99% in the trash. Vegetables? 99% in the trash.
However, these kids always had money for vending machines, where they bought soda, chips and candy. I watched in dismay.
I bought the lunch that filled the gray garbage cans; they bought the goodies they ate.
Need we try this experiment on a larger scale to see just how much food can be discarded daily and taxpayer money wasted?
Charles Clark
Hilo
91直播 lawmakers
don’t represent you
Once again, the representatives from 91直播 voted for the “kill switch” bill.
This bill requires all new vehicles to have a remotely activated kill switch installed.
U.S. law says you are innocent until proved guilty. The “presumption of innocence” is the cornerstone of American justice.
Installing this switch says some day, some way, you guilty of something, and they will have to stop your vehicle.
This is the “presumption of guilt” and totally against American jurisprudence. And 91直播’s “representatives” are all for it.
James Pritchett
Pahoa
