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Re: Rep. Jack Kingston has a bold new lesson for poor children: If you want lunch, you better work for it. Literally 

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Hi Clo:

Works pretty well in Japan. Give kids some feeling of ownership and responsibility at their school. As you may know, I am Chairman of the Sweep & Mop Brigade at three local, co-op pre-schools. Parents, friends and alumnae clean the schools each weekend, as well as do repairs.

This is very much anti-Obama - "Ask not what you can do for your ...."


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Rep. Jack Kingston has a bold new lesson for poor children: If you want lunch, you better work for it. Literally
By: clo in FFFT
Thu, 19 Dec 13 6:02 PM 		Msg. 59152 of 65535

Republican unveils worst school idea ever: Make poor kids clean floors

Rep. Jack Kingston has a bold new lesson for poor children: If you want lunch, you better work for it. Literally

THURSDAY, DEC 19, 2013 07:43 AM EST
JIM NEWELL

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But on Saturday, Kingston came out against free lunches, saying that children should have to pay at least a nominal amount or do some work like sweeping cafeteria floors.

“But one of the things I’ve talked to the secretary of agriculture about: Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria — and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money. But think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch,” he said.

more:
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/19/republican_unveils_worst_school_idea_ever_make_poor_kids_clean_floors/

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