BISD CELEBRATES ‘NATIONAL SCHOOL BREAKFAST WEEK’
In order to encourage more families to take advantage of the healthy choices available with school breakfast, Brenham ISD is recognizing National School Breakfast Week March 6th through the 10th.
The National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) campaign theme, “School Breakfast Challenge”, reminds the entire school community that school breakfast provides a healthy, energizing start to the day for students.
Students are encouraged to “Take the Challenge” from March 6-10 by eating breakfast in the school cafeteria to receive a special treat.
National School Breakfast Week was launched in 1989 to raise awareness of the availability of the School Breakfast Program to all children and to promote the links between eating a good breakfast, academic achievement and healthy lifestyles.
The “Take the School Breakfast Challenge” is made possible by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, Kellogg’s and Potatoes USA. Parents and students can follow the fun on Facebook.com/TrayTalk.
I totally agree with you Sick of High Taxes. I see it every day. The supposedly poor child coming to school with the latest cell phone, very high priced and newest tennis shoes available and yet on free lunch and not a pencil, pen or paper to be found. They wear backpacks as a fashion statement and they too are empty of the proper school supplies. However, many of the “Poor” children come in with plenty of name brand snacks and drinks though. Misplaced an or wrong placed priorities on the parents part is where it all starts.
What about all of the low-income families who had kids even though they couldn’t afford to have them? Who will take care of their mistakes? Should we really punish the children and make them starve because they have irresponsible parents?
Felicia, you’re not punishing the children, you’re rewarding and reinforcing the bad behavior of the irresponsible parent. If the parent can’t afford the children and wants the state to raise their child then give the child up for adoption or to the state. Their parent is essentially giving the child up now by allowing the state to provide transportation to and from school, breakfast, lunch, an after school meal, healthcare, education, sports and I’m sure I missed some more that I’m not aware or thinking of. It seems a new social program is created everyday over the last few years with money we don’t have.
Also important to realize the parent is already getting food stamps (which is a good program I think) so all they have to do is make the effort to provide the food to their children. Is it to hard to get the greatly subsidized food from the store and provide it to the children before going to school and provide a sack lunch? Is that beneath the parent to do that? If it is then the parent is likely neglecting or abusing the child and CPS needs to look into the situation.
It is interesting, my wife is a teacher who is aware of who these “low income” students are. Yes there are some who really are poor, but there are many whose parents take every cent they can from the taxpayers, and then work unreported jobs and live a very nice lifestyle. If you want to see for yourself, go to any school drop off and watch these “low income” kids climb out of nice cars with fancy rims as the person who drops them off talks on the latest and greatest cell phone and are often tatoo’ed up and smoking. A lot of these supposed “poor” are taking advantage of the rest of us hard working tax payers.
“National School Breakfast Week”?
Why don’t we have a National Healthy Home Breakfast Week. Schools have no business providing anything more than education in the math, science, history, english, economics and job training. The rest needs to be cut. If the parents want the rest they need to provide for the rest. It’s called responsibility and parents need to take more of it and the state needs to have much less of it.