School Districts Crippled by Food Supply Shortages Could Have to Return to Remote Learning

[Admin Dee]

Cafeterias in K-12 schools across the country have reportedly faced depleted food supplies and labor shortages because of the coronavirus pandemic, leading some school districts to consider a return to remote learning rather than forcing students to go hungry.

An AL.com story on Monday said Alabama's education department reported every school district in the state is suffering from food and cafeteria workforce shortages. Other school districts throughout the country have faced the same problem, and federal agencies have scrambled to offer assistance.

The reasons cited for the shortages are pandemic-related. Cafeteria workers miss work after becoming sick with COVID-19 or because they're quarantining after being exposed to the virus. At the same time, truck companies have reported difficulties in filling positions, such as drivers to bring food and cutlery to schools, as have food production factories responsible for putting together student meals.

 

While schools have been scrambling, the federal government has tried to offer assistance. On September 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would provide $1.5 billion in emergency funds to help schools feed students. The agency said in a statement that the funds will "enhance the toolbox for school nutrition professionals working hard to make sure students have reliable access to healthy meals."

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[Ronald A. Nelson COL, USA, Retired]

“A Nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it can not survive TREASON FROM WITHIN… An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and he carries his banners openly, but the traitor moves among those within the gate freely. His sly whispers rustling thru all the galleries, heard in every hall of government itself. For the traitor appears, not as a traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments. He appeals to the BASENESS that lies in the heart of all men. He rots the soul of a Nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night, to undermine the pillars of the city. He INFECTS THE BODY POLITIC, so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. ” Cicero 42 B.C.

 

The above words are no less true today than when first spoken by Cicero… our body politic is infected, with the baseness of men. These traitors speak in familiar accents, they wear the face and garments of our neighbors, but at heart, they undermine the pillars of liberty and rot our Nation’s soul. These political psychopaths lie with impunity and cunning, purchasing pubic favor with promises they can not keep. They are charismatic and confident, the elite who commit global crimes: mass genocide, generational slavery, and the theft of the Wealth of Nations. Bernie Madoff has nothing on these men. Aesop said of these men “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office.”

 

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.” ― George Washington. Governments like fire can be both a blessing or a curse. When the government is limited it can help to preserve man’s unalienable rights, but as a fire out of control it can also be the force that can destroy the lives, liberty, and property of the people it was created to protect.”

 

If a society has too much government the people become the subjects of tyrants... while, in societies with too little government, they experience anarchy. For peace, prosperity, and freedom, to be maximized, the government must be held in check. In our case, that check was (past tense) the Constitution; when, combined with a well-educated, moral, and vigilant, people, our liberty was secure. Today the Constitution is ignored and the people have forsaken their moral compass. The people have been ‘dumbed down’ and apathy rules the body politic of our nation.

 

Hence, our government is no longer held in check... by the chains of its Constitution or a moral and vigilant people. The Constitution is no longer rigidly enforced by a moral or well-educated and informed people. It is therefore imperative that ‘we the people’, reinstate the traditional values that made our Nation… a City set upon a hill, a beacon of liberty in a world of darkness… The American Dream requires due diligence by a moral, informed, and vigilant, people.

 

I fear that the candle of our liberty will soon be extinguished… that its source of light no longer rests in the heart of its people; that, our father’s creed and love of liberty, has been lost to an entire generation. America as we knew her is fading in the twilight of her Constitution. A dream extinguished by an ill-informed, immoral people; whose, better judgment has been replaced by the baser values of the mob… who now look to prosper at another’s expense.

 

“Government is the great fiction... thru which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” Frederick Bastiat. Our government has proven these words to be true. The fundamentals of our liberty no longer rest in the hearts and minds of the people. The baser moral values of the mob now rule… as each man looks to prosper at another’s expense.

 

[Lois Potts]

oh well with the CRT thing going on they are better off staying home any way arent they?  they dont learn to read write and do arithmetic and history has been abolished and changed so what exactly are we keeping the public school system open for any way????

[Lynn Bryant DeSpain]

Excellent Ron! Word for word, One couldn't tell if spoken by an American Patriot or a Taliban Terrorist. Therein lay the danger.

Lynn Bryant DeSpain

[Loenzo Gonzales]

Parents are responsible for the feeding of their children as they are responsible for the education their children get stand up and be a parent make sure your children get a good education starting with America History and if teachers hate how a people came to this land to not be control by the king how they were looking for a place where freedom of religion freedom of speech would not be attack. If they hate America so much then pack up and go to a socialist country where you will be welcome 

 

[Lois Potts]

amen to that God bless you and yours

[Robert Puckett]

You're right but these "Posers", would not be welcome in a truly authorityranicalcommie country, they'd be enslaved. 

[MacFarland Francis Pickard]

LET'S GO BRANDON.

 

[Lois Potts]

FJB

[Janet E Christian]

Agreed

[Lynn Bryant DeSpain]

Yes Ron, many of us remember to lunches from home, walking to and from school if you lived within a mile and didn't play Sports. Some remember when school cafeterias came into being and the majority of mothers thought of them as a Gift from Heaven! Hungry kids used to mayonnaise sandwiches really liked them also. Lunch money in Eighth Grade through High School meant sneaking Off School Grounds and buying "Junk Food" with your friends, another rite of passage. Now, in this moment of time, we face a 5.4% Minimum Inflation for all goods and 20-60% increases on Food! Parents would appreciate a break in the "Budget" having the Schools feed their kids with their Minimum Copays for commodity/bulk foods. Thrown into the bargain comes the more assured higher standard of education across the "Field of Classroom" than Individually through a Computer Monitor. Take special note: No Ones Taxes were reduced for children "Not" attending School Rooms last year, despite lower utility, insurance, janitorial and maintenance costs.

Lynn Bryant DeSpain