Pittsburgh Public Schools to offer free lunches to all students

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Pittsburgh Public Schools announced today that when the 2014-15 school year begins next week, all students, regardless of family income, will get a free lunch. The school district already provides free breakfasts for all students.

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[FSogol]

1. Awesome. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Chicago is doing the same this year

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Commies!

Creating a culture of dependency so they will all vote for the Democrat Party



On a serious note, what a nice thing to see. A great contrast to the places that contract out food service and they let kids go hungry when their lunch card is "declined"

[sunnystarr]

4. Free Breakfast and Lunch in Nashville too

It's part of a federal program.

[YvonneCa]

7. My district...

...does this too. Hard for kids to learn when they're hungry.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Love it! nt

[TBF]

6. This should be done everywhere. nt

[bigwillq]

8. That's great.

K and R

[A Little Weird]

9. Good!

They should do this everywhere. All kids will get to eat and less paperwork for everyone involved. Win-win!

[ybbor]

10. But if we feed them they'll have no reason to try to improve their situation!

[valerief]

11. But...but...won't this hurt the rich people somehow? nt

[antigop]

12. Wonderful! nt

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[blue neen]

14. Fantastic.