Here’s What Happens To Kids When They Get To Eat Before School Every Day

[eridani]

http://www.upworthy.com/heres-what-happens-to-kids-when-they-get-to-eat-before-school-every-day?c=upw1

If you feed kids breakfast before school, they have a much better chance of doing well for their entire lives. Wow. Seems to me that we should expand the school breakfast/lunch program pronto.

[Notafraidtoo]

1. This is why i loath Republicans

It is more important to them to teach children the world is a hard cruel place then to feed them so they become intelligent healthy members of society. Wish they could have their own hell hole to live in and leave the rest of us alone.

[yeoman6987]

6. The parents also piss me off

The can't provide a box of cereal and milk?

[GeorgeGist]

7. Paul? Is that you?

[yeoman6987]

8. Are u saying that Paul sends his kids to school without breakfast?

I don't understand your thinking.

[daleanime]

9. Don't worry....

your happier not understanding.

[yeoman6987]

10. That is good because we have had an influx of conservatives on here and I thought you were prime #1

Glad to see that you are at least sensible and not a conservative after all.

[daleanime]

11. Gee! I'm in your thoughts.....

[yeoman6987]

12. Why not?

You are a fellow liberal and progressive, are you not? I would support you like any DUer 100 percent.

[LeftOfWest]

17. Some cannot.

Welcome to the real right wing rethuglafuck world for the last 40 years.

Ugh....

[Igel]

13. The point stands.

I have poor kids in my classes whose parents won't sign up for free/reduced meals.

I have kids who show up late and don't get their free/reduced means.

See that part of the graphic that points this kind of thing out?

Then again, I have kids whose parents combined income is well over $200k/year and who come to school hungry. They get up, they fuss with their hair, they pick out their clothes, they text, they meet their boyfriend/girlfriend. Somehow food doesn't enter into the picture. And no parent says, "You, sit, eat this."


Then again, I'd like to see the research behind this. Too often people read the conclusions without noticing the definitions, the sample, and the statistics. It's like the "early childhood intervention" debacle, where EC programs are demanded by everybody when they have a large effect on one group, a significant effect on a somewhat larger group, but have few long-term effects of any size on any group.

[LeftOfWest]

18. Yes. Agree. You get it.

Clearly get the 99% of us struggling to make it in this 'real' world the thugs have created.

Thank you, great post.

Hell hole indeed, to all of them.

[Scuba]

2. If we can't afford to feed and educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

[newfie11]

3. Corporations and politicians. Nt

[shenmue]

5. You are correct

Dingdingding! We have a winner.

[AnneD]

14. I am so there with you....

USA...rotting from the inside out and the head down.

[mercuryblues]

4. the school

lunch program was signed into law in 1946 by Truman in response to men being denied entry into the military (during WW2) because of diet related health problems.

My personal opinion, this program should be under the defense department, not the farm bill. If it was placed under the defense budget, there would be no question of funding. Even though I don't like the idea of kids being fattened up for war, I am willing to over look it because kids will be fed. To me that is more important than the why.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

15. Is there any evidence that this is causation rather than just correlation? N.T.

[eridani]

16. You can test this yourself by not eating for a couple of days--

--and then taking on a complex work-related problem.