I continue to post the statement every chance I get.
It is Colbert inspired. My hero

Christ did not ask us to help the poor.
He demanded we help the poor.
And he said nothing about judging the poor first.
I am pretty sure he pointed out who would do the judging, and it ain't us.
Stated with anger!

If we are not feeding children then what the hell are we.

That is the truest thing I have heard in a long time.

Such a shame that the little ones, or even teenagers, have to wonder where their meals are coming from.

Good thing that the evil, money-grubbing teachers, of whom I am among, went beyond their already lofty tasks to help these kids!

Is an incredible boost to children (and teenagers) who think the world has left them out to dry.

I have known and worked with many teachers, and the absolutely last thing I would call them is money grubbing or selfish or lazy. In all my experience, most everyone is incredibly selfless, spends many more hours/days at their jobs than any fat-ass CEO, and isn't in it for the $.

Kudos to you, ybbor.

The Occupy page posted some stats on food stamps. I posted a reply that I would not have food in my house if not for the food stamps I must use. The post started a horrible series of attacks on those of us who must rely on food stamps to eat, to survive. One person told me to "get off your ass" and "stop being a parasite." Hundreds of people weighed in, most opposed to food stamps, convinced there is rampant fraud among recipients (a claim that the statistics graphic completely discredited).

Statistics tell us that one in four children live in poverty. How can a child concentrate on school work when they are wracked with hunger pangs?

How can people justify doing this to our younglings?!?

I have to get off of here. This hate and resentment is overwhelming.

Judging people makes them feel superior. Obviously, the problem is that they are not, nor any of us. I don't believe some religious people ever read the Bible without choosing the text very carefully to ensure they only choose passages that are pre- aproved. You help the poor, sick, homeless, diseased, and strugling to help yourself, not them.

showed up having had no breakfast. Some had to get themselves us and off to school. Our foodbank provides extra kid friendly foods in the summer to help make up for the missed lunches provided by the schools.

Support your local foodbank.

banks. One item that is always needed is peanut butter. Your funds will help the food bank the items they need. Thank you for being a blessing.

in this country as it is.

Good on them.

they do. When I began teaching, my Depression-era parents were amazed that we teachers were spending our own money to get essentials for our classrooms. My school was in a lower middle class community in LA, with new immigrants enrolling every day. Their parents could not afford "fund raisers, auctions, etc." that you see in other communities, and as in most school districts in the US, classrooms go without unless parents or teachers pay for essentials -- kleenex, paper towels, snacks, supplies.

Yes, indeed. What kind of a society are we?

We are swimming in ignorance. Our kids are too busy working two jobs and just surviving, to keep up with what is going on in the world. How can we fight this, when they don't even realize that is going on in the world, let alone that it will be up to them i the future to correct ill advised legislation, etc. I'm truly scared.

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perpetual war, teachers would not have the freedom to canvass neighborhoods to make sure the USA's all too many impoverished kids have food.

The MSM won't cover this. They will cover any the bad news, though.

I can't imagine this happening in my area. Here Social Services are so impersonal that you no longer meet your case worker: you feed your paperwork into a scanner and hope no mistakes are made ( but usually there are).

The lack of caring for specific cases is epic. Luckily there are also a lot of nonprofit organizations to make up for the gaps in this area. But these orgs are scattered and take care of different granulated needs - the people with the needs has go find the organizations themselves. This shifts a research and legwork burden onto the already stressed
impoverished person.

Caring people delivering meals or trying to find out what's going on in your environment? No way! You are lucky if some one doesn't call the police for a "welfare check" and the situation doesn't end with the police unloading 48 bullets into the "agitated" unarmed child.

This has been a true story dozens of times over for disabled people. I just came from a "Disabled Lives Matter" mini-conference. The police are exempted from the ADA. Disabled people often die when THEY were the ones who called the police over an alarming situation, but then were unable to rapidly communicate what was happening.

Anyway- it's wonderful when caring people actually intervene and address social problems instead.

How is that even possible?

(That would explain why they're killing the mentally ill when they are called to help them.)

Maybe it has something to do with police needing to make fast decisions or stereltypes of the violent mentally ill. But police in liberal SAN FRANCISCO want to hold on to their ecemption.

The disabled community strongly feels the police shouldn't be the first line crisis responders at all. The responders should be trained crisis intervention professionals with experience in disability issues - if police respond, they should hang back and step in only if the crisis professional thinks it is necessary.

Someone who doesn't get easily scared and knows how to de-escalate a situation. Have you seen this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026297872

It means they do not have to hire disabled people. For example, they can refuse to hire someone because they are legally blind, or an amputee, or other disability.

Thank you for clarifying.

It means they don't have to hire people with disabilities. For example, they don't have to hire people who require wheelchairs to get around.

... Chris Christie and Scott Walker as they denigrate and/or fire teachers in their states.

I cooked thanksgiving dinner for 24 years for my kids when the first year I realized too many of my kids would not get one. You should see how much six year olds can eat. It was epic.

And bless you for doing that, roguevalley!

of them. I also remember my parents carrying in the food and helping, giving little kids a touch of granny and grandpa, something rare up here in Alaska. I also remember my dad calling my principal a bitch to her face when she was chasing my ass around. BWAHAHA! My dad had strokes and his vocabulary was limited. (brain) stem words you don't lose. She never did a damned thing to me because of it either.

Good times.

Good for you!

What a kind and loving thing to do. Your students will remember your kindness forever.

I spent my entire professional career as an educator, first as a public school teacher and later as a professor of education. I always told my college students that teaching is a calling, that it is something that chooses you. I am so very glad it chose you, roguevalley.

what a cool thing to do..

to me too. Their smile never changes.

... I hope karma comes soon to him for uttering those words.

I couldn't take it anymore. I have my own preschool now at my house.

Teachers are the guardian angels for our nation's needy children. Bless every single one of them who care for their "kids" when school is out.

That scott walker fought and considers himself qualified to fight ISIS because he defeated them?

As a local resident I can attest that Servatii's and LaSoupe prepare premium products, so those children ate delicious, high quality food.

in the early 60's we lived in San Antonio. We were in a group that played cards on weekends and there was one couple in the group where the wife taught school on San Antonio's West Side. This area was known for extreme poverty and neglect by state and local officials. My teacher friend was always asking us for shoes and coats that our children had outgrown. She would take them to school to give to her students who didn't have shoes and warm coats. I take my hat off the teachers, especially the ones that look beyond the text books at the little persons sitting in their class.

there were many. Just simple kindness.

Where our kids are so poorly cared for that their teachers see a need to do this. If this country has any goodness left in it, it's people like those teachers.

according to many DUers.

don't spoil the narrative about evil educators.

read the comments and see if any of those people post here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6289068

Walker would be explaining how they were Isis members, just trying to distract from the evil they do.

Renewed

feed their students.

Massive cuts to funding public schools with the spoils going to enrich the GOP campaign contributors who use the charter schools as a revolving door to launder money back to the GOP while enriching themselves are just one of the multitude of fiscal malfeasance of the Ohio GOP. The working classes and the poor in Ohio are being mined for money by these cretins who can not operate a business without stealing public tax dollars for their profit.

Thanks to the budget cuts here in Ohio, these educators know full well these children do not get enough good food. They see what happens to these children thank to the heartless GOP policies that care only to force women to give birth, but refuse to help the child once they are born. The GOP is anti-life.

These people are true heroes. Thank you to these educators.

Great find for the OP. Thanks for posting this.

K&R.

Sorry if it was yours. Starting to hate this tablet!
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No biggie, though. I doubt a jury would hide this story.

have been sending "blue bags" with lunch for weekends with children who need it. She also told me that they buy things like toothbrushes, toothpaste and other healthcare items for these families. These teachers are the best.

I'd love to know how widespread this is. I should do some digging & see if I can find more information.

collects school supplies at the beginning of each year - pencils, colors etc. That is also a good cause.

Personally I save Campbell's Soup coupons and the Box Tops for the schools. It is something I can do to help. Also our schools collect recycled colored paper and sells it for money. That probably will not work everywhere as we have paper mills here.

I know a number of elementary school teachers who collected and purchased hats, gloves and mittens at the end of the year sales, so they would have items to give to kids who did not have hats and gloves in cold weather. The little rural school where my kids went to always kept a lot of coats and sweatshirts to give to kids in need. The social safety net in rural areas has been fraying since the Reagan era and it is accelerating. I am sure the urban areas are getting hit just as hard. The good teachers always had granola bars or something like that for kids who did not get food at home could get something to eat first thing in the morning.

A lot of kids come to school hungry. Many of them have to get themselves ready for school, because their parents jobs are a one to two hour commute. The county in which I live had a church run food pantry that has closed it doors, so people have no where to go to get a little something to get them through the month.

Most elementary school teachers buy supplies for the kids whose parents cannot afford or neglect to get the needed supplies. For some it is poverty, others are just neglected. When my kids were in school, I always sent in double or triple the requested classroom items. The teachers would request parents to send in hand sanitizer, tissues, paper towels and other type supplies, since the schools were never funded to provide those things for the classrooms. We always sent in extra so the teachers did not have to spend so much of their own money on supplies.

The suburban schools have enough money to properly supply the schools, but the rest of the schools are severely neglected. Middle class suburbanites never see the neglect and need.