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No Food for You! Kids Denied Breakfast for Wearing Wrong Shoes to Grade School

No Food for You! Kids Denied Breakfast for Wearing Wrong Shoes to Grade School

Two young boys, aged 5 and 6 years old, were denied breakfast at their Chicago grade school for wearing the wrong type of shoes. They were sporting black athletic shoes rather than black dress shoes, as mandated by the school uniform policy.

No Food for You! Kids Denied Breakfast for Wearing Wrong Shoes to Grade School

CBS’s local Chicago affiliate has more:

Chicago Public Schools is apologizing to a Chicago mother and her two young sons, ages 5 and 6, after they were denied breakfast because they came to schools wearing the wrong kind of shoes.
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The Nicholson brothers only grab a quick snack before heading to class because they qualify for a full free breakfast at Adam Powell Grade School. It’s something they look forward to every day, and it hurt when they were recently turned away.

They were wearing black athletic shoes. The boys told their mom that the assistant principal, Angela Peagler wouldn’t let them eat because their shoes didn’t fit the school uniform, which calls for a regular black dress shoe.

“I felt sad. We’re always supposed to have breakfast,” first-grader Noah Nicholson says.

Noah and his brother Niko, who is in kindergarten, went to class hungry and didn’t eat until lunch.

The boys’ great aunt was understandably upset: “I don’t care if they had on orange shoes, they were in line to eat…I’m not going to feed you because you have the wrong shoes? Shoes? No, no.”

Read the full story here.

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  • looseyloo
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:30pm

    If a parent cannot provide breakfast for the kids, why would anybody think they could provide the right shoes ?

    Whatever the reason for the kids not having dress shoes on, anybody working at a school who would deny 2 little kids breakfast … I cannot even imagine the thought process that takes somebody to that decision.

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    • redbrown02
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:48pm

      Ok I just don’t get it anymore. Two Little children show up to school in the wrong shoes and they get no breakfast because of it. Well first of all I would like to know how they qualify for a free breakfast and lunch from the tax payer? where is the Mother and the Father? Do they work? Do they have jobs? Are they playing the system by not being married so they can get free stuff from the Government? Are they on drugs? if so why ? If Mom is getting food stamps then she should be feeding her children instead of double dipping the system. If Daddy lives with Mom but not married then get married or Mom looses her free stuff. And, WHY AINT MOM FEEDING THE CHILDREN?WHAT KIND OF MOTHER DOES NOT FEED HER OWN CHILDREN?

      Now to the school. Feed the children! It aint the childrens problem that Mom is a looser!!!!!!!!!

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:29pm

    THAT’S RIGHT, PRISONER!!
    WE SEARCH YOU AT THE DOOR LIKE A PRISONER!!

    IF YOU ARE OUT OF PRISON UNIFORM, NO SOUP FOR YOU, PRISONER!!

    ARRRGHH!!!!

    IF YOU’RE TIRED OF THE POLICE STATE. VOTE FOR RON PAUL.

    They’re training our children to be prisoners.

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  • louzyana
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:28pm

    I’m just glad that all items and people involved in this story were the same color. Otherwise, it would have been a perfect chance to scream raaaaaacism. Oh dear, whom do we blame now??

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:28pm

    Ah yes – lazy, failed parents seeking entitlements and teaching their children to expect the government to meet all of their needs – how nice. How about feeding your own dang children? Here is a little secret that taxpayers know; Nothing is “free”.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:28pm

    Responsibility is what you call it

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  • Rob
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:27pm

    Put me in charge and there would be a LOT less people.

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  • KeithOlberdink
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:26pm

    Why am I paying to feed these kids? You had them, you feed them! The dept of eduction needs to be abolished.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:26pm

    You have to F… me! from Chicago? How could you justified this? How could you tell that kid no breakfast, cause… Your shoes. I think is racist. Sorry I am using the same democraps play cards.

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  • chips1
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:25pm

    Hope and Change? I HOPE they CHANGE their shoes.

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  • ilovetheusa1
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:25pm

    wtf,what else can I say. feed you own kids in your own home, irresponsible parents, or parent.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:23pm

    Dismantle the Dept of Education.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:23pm

    When you rely on the State to feed you you can better believe it will be conditional.

    The boys learned a tough lesson and I hope they take it to heart and never forget it. That is, to rely on yourself only, because the harsh reality is that the State can never be relied upon.

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  • BobNH
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:22pm

    Parents provide breakfast?!?!? Oh silly person, what an absurd idea! Just because our parents made sure we ate breakfast, had either lunch money or a bag lunch and then fed us dinner every night. Why would we expect the same today?

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  • BHAMCONSERVATIVE
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:22pm

    This is why the nanny state doesn’t work! If you let the govt feed your kids, they will decide not only what they eat (let’s move!), but IF they eat at all. Their family should be pissed, but then they should feed their own children and NOT leave it up to the government.

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  • colonelguano
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Not a male in sight. Brian is right.

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  • jzs
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Not sure where the Blaze is going with this one, but the sad fact is that many, many Americans are too poor to feed their kids breakfast, something that can only help them learn more. Somebody buy these guys some shoes, thanks Blaze for raising the subject.

    But I will make the probably provactive comment that Blazers don’t want the government to provide breakfasts for the poorest children among us, but do support government subsidies for oil companies like EXXON (the most profitable company in the world I think). Republicans want to give oil companies 100s of billions of dollars in free money, but don’t want to pay $1.50 for decent breakfast for someone who wants his kid to go to school, but can’t afford to feed them. For a lot of these kids, it’s the only meal they get.

    Sure Christ talked a lot about feeding the poor, but he meant the parents should feed the poor, not you and me.

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    • HornsFan96
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:28pm

      Buy them some shoes?? Are you joking??? They are wearing freakin’ NIKES. In the video, you can see a large flat-screen TV behind the mother. The grandmother is wearing jewelry.

      This has nothing to do with being poor. It has everything to do with failing to budget and prioritize spending properly. And why, pray tell, do people like these fail to budget and prioritize? Because they don’t have to! Instead, they just steal from me – the honest taxpayer – by living off the government teat.

      A parent’s first priority – above all else, should be to feed their very own children. It’s not my job, and I deeply resent being forced to take care of other people’s kids.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:30pm

      The kids had “grabbed a snack” before leaving for school. If Mom can provide a snack, then she should also provide a meal. The government was never meant to feed the poor. That’s what charity and churches are for. (hmmm, that kinda sounded like a poem)

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:34pm

      I am sick to MF-ing death of partisans like YOU. You are so locked up in the theory of your own heads that you can’t see what is right before your eyes.

      YOU, and other liberals, complain about corporate welfare but when it comes to defunding a billion-dollar private corp like Planned Parenthood, you nag it‘s somehow ’unfair’ and against women–what have you.

      I’m sick and tired of people like YOU, demanding things both ways. Then when you get it, YOU still rag.

      What the frack is WRONG with you? You can’t even be happy when you get what you want?

      I’m glad, to no end, I’m no longer like you are.

      Here’s the bottom line on this story: Some union-paid vermin denied a child a meal, just for a pair of shoes. And libs dare say they ‘care’?

      I’ll tell you what–If those children would miss breakfast because some union buttnut has her ‘rules’, I’l take the arrest for beating that person to a pulp and unlimber my wallet to buy those children their meal.

      And I bet every Conservative here is with me–it would be a scramble for who pays first among my fellow Citizens.

      You, I bet and on the other hand, would be hiding in some corner begging for police–without offering so much as a penny so those children could have a healthy breakfast.

      Pffft!

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:08pm

      If people cannot afford to feed their kids, then why do they have have so many?

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    • ZAH
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:45pm

      Poverty is no excuse for not feeding your children. Even if you truly can’t afford to, there are such things as food banks, etc.—but government should not be doing it for you, and you shouldn’t expect it to.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:51pm

      UpstateNYConservative, I’m glad I was never like you are now.

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    • ZAH
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:55pm

      @Upstate–
      “You, I bet and on the other hand, would be hiding in some corner begging for police–without offering so much as a penny so those children could have a healthy breakfast.”

      No: he already offered up his penny—on April 15th (assuming he pays taxes, that is).

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:08pm

      @jzs
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:51pm

      UpstateNYConservative, I’m glad I was never like you are now.

      ______________

      Oh–you mean that I would buy–when YOU obviously wouldn’t by your own post–that denied child’s breakfast? That I would pay out of my own pocket, to over-ride a nutcase union-owned school admin who refused a little kid a meal based on some legalistic ‘rule’ about a lousy pair of shoes?

      And YOU dare insinuate you‘re somehow more ’moral’ than me? Or above people like me?

      Are you really going to try that, and actually believe YOU are somehow ‘above’?

      What the frack is WRONG with you?

      Know what–you stick to your own post, and I stick to mine. Others can decide for themselves about it all.

      Hey–send me your address. I’ll mail you a T-shirt with the logo “Something To Prove”.

      Pfft!

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    • john146
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:32am

      please provide your fact regarding government subsidies for oil companies. i think you will be surprised. as far as the poor – Jesus said we will always have poor people and we should be of assistance to those who are not able to help themselves. the bible also states that if you dont work you dont eat. the difference is stark. it is a character issue. 1960 10% were on govt support. 2000 20% were on govt support. 2011 36% were on govt support. when will it hit 50% or greater? JZS – i suggest you take on a second job to help pay for those who are able to work but choose not to work.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:05pm

      Don‘t miss JZS’s point

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  • Rob
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Our wonderful founding fathers brought the blacks over here… were they really so wonderful? They set us up for failure…

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    • vennoye
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:38pm

      No, you can thank the Democratic Presidents for that. LBJ’s great society assured black voting block would vote democratic for the next 40-50 years. That’s what he said when he signed the monster into law!!

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    • Rob
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:48pm

      Yeah, you are right. If we just made people accountable, things would work. I apologize for my words. But I am frustrated.

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  • chips1
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:20pm

    Hey! President Buckwheat!! Someone acted stupidly. What ya gonna do?

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  • Frustrated
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:20pm

    Why were they not fed at home?? Why were they not wearing the uniform required by the school? I’m not saying its right but, they will probably sue because they didn’t get their “free” breakfast, FYI, its NOT free its just paid for by other families tax dollars, another responsible family

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  • Rob
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:19pm

    I work at a school.. we give half the school, 1000 kids, “free” breakfast and lunch and do it for them all summer too if they want to show up… we are the only mammels on the planet that can’t feed our kids.

    LOSERS! Our tax dollars at work.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:46pm

      I taught in CPS from Aug 1996-Dec 2000 and we fed our students, a full hot breakfast, a hot lunch, and a sandwich lunch after school as a “snack” if they stayed after for tutoring. This has been going on for years and isn’t new. Parents in CPS have come to expect the government taking care of their children in this nature.

      Now you know why someone on food stamps can afford better food than you can the next time you check out.

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:19pm

    Really bad communication going on here! These boys are adorable. Mom should have worked this out with the school and no need to make a big story on this ……….unless she did contact them and they didn’t resolve the problem.

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:57pm

      Why does momma not resolve the problem? Feed you own kids!

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:02pm

      My Mom and Dad fed us three boys breakfast, made lunches and stuffed our lunch boxes. We never even thought of someone else doing it!
      I sure do hate what has become of the American family. Pathetic!

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    • Deb C
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Let me get this straight….they did have lunch ( and dinner ) ?

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  • ARIZONA VETERAN
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:18pm

    The boys’ great aunt was understandably upset: “I don’t care if they had on orange shoes, they were in line to eat…I’m not going to feed you because you have the wrong shoes?…….WHY DOESN’T THIS BITTTCH FEED THEM!!! BL ACK ADULTS ARE PARASITES!!

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    • salvawhoray
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:31pm

      not blacks, N!99_rs!

      A black person feeds and looks after their kids.

      Snoop Dog = N!99_r

      Robert Cray = Black man

      I’m born with the curse of knowing the difference between the two.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:36pm

      No, Sal

      you are the “curse”

      take you old ******* ass on down the road and sit on a log.

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    • IowaWoman
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:11am

      There are MORE WHITE folks on welfare, food stamps, School breakfast/lunch programs. Stop with the race cr@p! I agree The parents should feed the kids breakfast. The lunches could be on a sliding scale according to income. I went to a small town school BEFORE the feds took over. The school offered lunches on a sliding scale according to income. Most parents that could not afford hot lunches sent lunch in a brown bag with child. Few opted for the sliding scale according to income. No one ever went with out lunch, the cooks were our mothers/grandmothers that could volunteer their time. A good portion of the food was donated from surrounding citizens/businesses. I received a world class education and was never hungry. Agree or disagree with feeding polices:
      THOSE CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE BEEN FED! IT WAS CRUEL TO SHAME THEM PUBLICLY OVER THEIR FOOTWEAR!

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  • not-a-lib
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:14pm

    If they control the food, they’ll control the masses…

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:28pm

      Exactly … and allowing people to be dependent on the government controls everything.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:33pm

      You are absolutely right!!!!

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    • EP46
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:35am

      @NOT-A-LIB Agree, my first thought was not the shoes, it was ‘control the food’.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:50pm

      And then you have that nitwit, state Sen. Shane Cultra, running his mouth saying: “It‘s the parents’ responsibility that have obese kids,” . Looky here Shaney old boy. I’ll take the loss of a tax deduction the minute you take care of MONSANTO and others that are poisoning our foods !!!!!!!!

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  • Whirling Dervish
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:13pm

    How is that hope and change working for you?

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:11pm

    Why aren’t the kids fed breakfast at home BY THEIR PARENTS? The STATE shouldn’t have such power or authority to do this kind of thing!

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    • ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:13pm

      I’m just biting my tongue on this one…

      http://www.ISeeDanger.com

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    • ARIZONA VETERAN
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:17pm

      seriously?, mama is strung out on crack and daddy is in prison….these are welfare kids, i am all for taking them away from the strung out mama, as Americans, we can’t let a 5 & 6 year old be the victim of mama and the sperm donor…

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:17pm

      So the adults who bred them are not only incapable of giving them a bowl of cereal AT HOME , they can’t even be bothered to have the kids wear the right shoes before they leave home ?
      Its not like these adults have jobs to go to , they get welfare and food stamps too
      BECAUSE OF THESE KIDS .
      What parasites

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    • Obeckian1984
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:18pm

      Schools are just reeducation camps, used to break up society
      everyone should home school

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

      I agree .. when you give over control of your children this is what happens .. I would also like to know how many of these free breakfast and lunch kids parents are getting food “assistance” besides .. double dipping? Don‘t tell me you can’t “live” off the food assistance .. when my husband was hurt once we did it and it wasn’t as “generous” as it is now.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:22pm

      @ RightPolitically
      I don’t know about other school districts but here in CA , I‘ve seen all the ’ communist organizer’ types coming out in droves with local democrats, to force the schools to stay open during the summer
      JUST SO THE KIDS CAN HAVE 3 MEALS a day, because if the schools close, these kids will go hungry.
      The tragic part is almost 99% of these kids have young able bodies baby mamas and baby daddys , on welfare, on food-stamps , in free housing, DOING NOTHING all day …just chillin

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    • bikerr
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:23pm

      @RightPolitically—You are so right on! Why are the parents not feeding them at home? more than likely it is because the state is allowed to be involved ,(way to much).

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    • ottodiedacktick
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:25pm

      Get ready, the indoctrination is about to begin.

      FoodNazi: What? No dress shoes?!!!
      No food for you! NEXT!!!

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    • let us prey
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:38pm

      It says right there in the article that this [Chicago] school qualifies them for a free full breakfast. Parents dont have to do a darn thing anymore. I can remember my momma feeding me every morning. Huhh

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:40pm

      With this one…enough is past enough; there was an article now in the news that schools are trying to ban chocolate milk in schools: some for the racial and non PC connotation of it, and others for the sake it is not ‘traditional milk’ even though many nutritionalists say there is no problems with it.

      Big Brother and Sister happens again.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:41pm

      The full story is the kids have been on the hot breakfast program for a few years. The Vice Principle decided they didn’t have the right shoes although there is no dress code. So there is serious back peddling from the school. Now what I find interesting is, the school is getting federal funds because of these 2 kids and they denied them a benefit that has been given to them from the taxpayers. If the school is paying for this out of their pocket the, no foul. But to deny a rightful recipient a benefit without due process. I would think the school should not only answer to the parents, but the federal govt.

      Now that being said, if the parents are that destitute, I believe in making sure the kids are fed, but there should be more parental responsibility and maybe they don’t buy that carton of cigs, maybe buy some eggs and milk?

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    • thebarbarian
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:42pm

      @ right politically

      your right. it’s liberalville chicago. home of opra.obomination,and so on. they are the nanny statists . question, are’nt they the ones who say that children need to eat and eat well to be able to think and function in school? moosechell, is up to gov. to do what you parents are too stupid to do. the gov. picks and chooses and not in your favor.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:43pm

      @Darmok ~
      All is well. Emails on the way!

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    • Creestof
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:55pm

      Don’t be stupid enough to punish kids for the low class nature of their parents. The parents are a lost cause…but the kids at this age still have a chance. A basic meal is not to much to give them as a society in hopes they’ll grow up with different values than those who bore them.

      Where one kid will enter adulthood believing everything is owed to him based upon such meals and other offerings, another will appreciate the sacrifice others have made and grow up determined to be self-sufficient.

      How we as a society treat children getting these services has as much impact on them (as to which path they choose) as that of those raising them.

      You pro-lifers insist they get born no matter what…don’t come here now with your venom and fault giving them such a basic service and a chance to step out of the welfare circle.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:02pm

      @Creestof
      Then we should take the kids away from the parents?

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:02pm

      Maybe BO had the wrong shoes on when he was growing up over seas.

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    • bry
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:11pm

      I can NOT believe that these children were turned away because they did not have the “right” shoes on. How heartless! What if they showed up barefoot? Would they be denied lunch as well?

      The vice principal should be denied her job. Bureaucracy on the march. Scarey stuff.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:13pm

      Is this not why the family has food stamps? To have food at home?

      Get rid of free b’fast and lunch at school. Forget free suppers. It‘s the family’s responsibility to feed and clothe their children. My mother, who worked as a teacher, fixed us b’fast until we were old enough to figure it out on our own (junior high). My father died when I was just a kid, but my mother figured out how to make it work for our family. Her mother stayed w/us and got supper ready for us and did light sewing. We kids had the other chores – dishes, laundry, mowing, housekeeping, in addition to homework. Meanwhile, my mother worked on her masters degree, paid the bills, paid off the mortgage.

      THAT is the American way. We had no handouts, no free stuff, no ADC, no food stamps, no Medicaid, etc.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:21pm

      Okay – The parent(s) may be dirtbags but they may just be poor! NO MATTER: If you are within 500 feet of a hungry child you do what you can to remedy that situation. Period; no discussion necessary.

      You try to figure out what went wrong later. You feed hungry children.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:24pm

      SALVAWHORAY – You are so right, except that there are an awful lot of white parents in the same category. All of them sitting on their a$$ waiting for their Obama money, while their children are being taught how to be good little communists by Union teachers that are card carrying members.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:31pm

      I wonder if the bird they have in that cage gets to eat. Maybe these entitlement rich people need to get their priorities in order. Also, it doesn’t look like the gal denying them the food missed many meals. Maybe she was saving this for herself. How many other taxpayer paid meals is she denying and taking home or the school is dividing up the money.

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    • waggie
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:38pm

      First of all, ARIZONA VETERAN, let’s not judge who the parents are. You have no idea who they are or whether or not they’re in jail or on crack. I mean…really? I do agree with others though, that the state should not be responsible for feeding our kids. Another entitlement program that should be cut. PARENTS should be feeding their kids not the nanny state.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:23pm

      Christ spoken often of helping the poor. Maybe you can give me a biblical reference, but I don’t recall Christ talking about the poor as being bums, vermin or whatever. But of course few people here try to reconcile the teachings of Christ with their political opinions. There’s no overlap and too much conflict, so you keep those things separate in your minds.

      There’s a lot of denial here too. The belief I read in these posts is that either there is no poverty in the United States, no people too poor to feed their kids, or, if there is, the parents are just lazy bums.

      You mock the poor. You mock their parents and their children. You say “they are bums, they are criminals, they are worthless” and dismiss them from your minds after expressing your hatred toward them.

      That‘s hardly a Christian sentiment but you really don’t hear much genuine Christianity here. What you hear more of is people trying to prop up their fragile egos by judging their own worth based on the fact that they have an income, no matter how mediocre, and hold themselves above, in Christ’s words, “the poorest among us.” People trying to feel superior to others of different religions or nationalities. You believe youselves superior and more worthy.

      You should heed the words, “there but for the Grace of God go I.”

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    • 19RANDY59
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Don’t bite your tongue, let it rip!!! Those two kids should have been fed at home. The parents should be ashamed!!!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:30pm

      My tongue is raw, too, from biting it. Plus, this one gave me a headache!

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:39pm

      Is it wrong to give these kids the start that they’re not going to get from their parents? Are Blazers really that morally void that they would rather see a kid starve than give him a little tax payer funded nourishment? Did you ever think that by giving these kids food and education, we might break the circle of poverty that they will otherwise grow up in?
      Who knows, one of these boys could be a future president and you could all start asking about his birth certificate.

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    • Robotics_Geek
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:40pm

      He who pays the bills makes the rules…That’s why we need LESS Government interference! When you get your food, home, car and other necessities from the Government then the Government can exert great pressure on you. Why are the Tea Party and other small government orgs called racists when the left IS MAKING SLAVES? Good will be called evil and evil called good…

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:41pm

      I agree they should eat breakfast at home instead of school. However, you have to remember that this is Chicago after all. This is where our great and mighty President comes from and it is the cradle of Progressive agenda. Chicago is VERY Progressive and would make the whole nation that way. They believe you live and conform to the city goverment and its mandates. I am not a bit surprised at this, I lived in Chicago. It is a sorry sight to see kids growing up believing that the Goverment will provide for them, now they know and have justed learned that if they don’t conform to the goverment rules they will miss out, and do without. Very sad lesson they have learned.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • grannyjojo
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:56pm

      \Why aren’t the kids fed breakfast at home BY THEIR PARENTS? The STATE shouldn’t have such power or authority to do this kind of thing

      Sir, in MY opinion that is not the POINT. The point IS that due to these CHILDREN not wearing the RIGHT shoes they were DENIED food! I do not care either whether they were wearing ORANGE shoes or WHATEVER….you DO NOT decide they cannot eat! You don’t know why thely were wearing black athletic shoes and neither do I but I DO know what the school did was very very wrong! These are BABIES and whatever fault (if any) belong to the parents you do NOT punish the kids by not allowing them to eat! My granddaughter eats breakfast at school (we pay for it) and if EVER they deny her food for whatever reason they are going to have to deal with me and I can tell you it won’t be pretty. Someone needs to be FIRED and I wouldn’t be above suing the district either. What the school district did was wrong and I don’t give a rats butt whether they are on free lunches or not its NOT those babies fault.

      I believe anyone who thinks otherwise is morally and ethically wrong and shows not only no compassion but is mean and heartless. And what will you or anyone else say who thinks that way on judgement day? “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:03am

      So the state, not their mother, is responsible for their diets. Breakfast and lunch at school….and then dinner at home (assuming some of the welfare money has been put aside for that purpose). Shouldn’t food stamps be used for food? Maybe families like this should be monitored to ensure that they are spending their Obama stash for the purpose it was intended….feeding their children.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:06am

      .
      Why don’t you trick the evil white folks and eat breakfast at home with your parents?

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    • getalong
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:11am

      I agree. Whatever happened to parental responsibility?

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    • drattastic
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:27am

      Aaahhh Chicago a perfect example of the liberal utopia ,a bankrupt city,a government controlled school,rigid bureaucratic stupidity,lazy ignorant union employees,taxpayer funded housing complete with flatscreen tv ,a single mother of multiple children,no father in the picture,welfare/foodstamps and no job (naturally) but can‘t or won’t feed her own children that‘s not her responsibility it’s the systems and a corrupt incompetent media that thinks the story is them missing their breakfast. Yet the progressives try and paint we conservatives the dumb ones.

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    • carnifex
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:30am

      Here’s my solution. Take the kids away from the POS parents (who should be sterilized), and placed into a church run foster home. If there’s thousands then set up barracks for em. Use ex DI‘s as father figures to teach ’em how to feed themselves, get good grades and be productive citizens. There are whole generations of communities that need to be sterilized. Its real simple, if you can’t feed yourself then why the hell are you having more kids? Between race baiting panderers, and stupid libs theres no consequence for not only stupid behavior , but immoral behavior. Yes there is good and bad, and anyone not raised in the peoples republic of the united state recognize it when they see it.

      CHIVALRY–NOT ALL GIRLS LIKE IT. JUST THE ONES WORTH DYING FOR.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:45am

      @JZS,

      Kind of judgemental of you, ya think?

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    • avenger
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:06am

      sounds like we need to give mom more tax $$$ to hire an illegal nanny to dress the rug rats….

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:39am

      What? no tribal breakfast?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:46am

      Why are kid being fed breakfast at school? That’s the parents job,lunch is understandable as schools hours pass through lunch time. But to have kids go to schools eat and then start their days is ignorant. Couldn’t they just start the day a half hour later and require the parents to be parents first thing in the morning.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:38am

      the kids mother or what ever, “solution, MORE $$$” can’t afford toast cause we be doing crack.

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    • siebegorman
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:46am

      RightPolitically, you stole my thunder, my kids eat breakfast at home, sponsored by me, not the government.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:55am

      Billy, well, yeah. Got a little carried away.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:15am

      While I see both sides of the argument on this one. The real crux of the issue is school vs. parent control. If this is a private school, then the parents should know the rules and adhere to them. If however, this is a public school, then I am sorry, but the shoes(unless they have vulgar language) shouldn’t matter.

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    • julias
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:44am

      Why feed your own kids when the the government will do it for you??

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    • TMink
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:55am

      Breakfast is the cheapest meal of the day. I bet 90% of the people who use our money to feed their kids breakfast smoke cigarettes. There is breakfast money for their children right there.

      Trey

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    • accuratemech
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:31pm

      In Texas, the schools open during the summer to serve lunch. That’s ridicules. There shouldn’t be cafeterias in school. Its the parents responsibility to feed their children.

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