From Harford County Public Schools:
Harford County Public Schools is participating in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Meals will be provided to all eligible children, free of charge. Children who are part of households that receive benefits through the Food Supplement Program or Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) are automatically eligible to receive free meals. (**To be eligible to receive free meals at a residential or non-residential camp, children must meet the income guidelines listed below for reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program.) For questions about sites or where to obtain meals, please call 410-638-4099.
Acceptance and participation requirements for the SFSP and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the following sites and times:
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Seems like the only meals sites are in Edgewood/Aberdeen/Havre DeGrace. You mean to tell me that children outside the Rt40 corridor don’t need this benefit. Poverty is everywhere
Try getting a job loser, free meals are not right.
I got a job, I’m a teacher you ass wipe. How about giving me some money, for free?
Toothless typical fat Harford county hillbilly.
I “got” a job??? What do you teach? Definitely not proper English. I “have a job” would be accurate.
Smell my ass.
These meals are provided to “all eligible children”. To CHILDREN. Where is your compassion? Why are you so angry that you lash out at the parents and think it’s ok to impact blameless children?
I also agree that poverty exists outside of the Route 40 corridor and hope the program can be expanded to help all in Harford County that are less fortunate.
I have no problem with feeding children. However, it does seem odd that we are feeding children who, according to the guidelines, are in families that already receive assistance in the form of money to feed the children. What are the parents doing with this money that they already receive to feed the children?
Providing a way around bad parenting by feeding the children who don’t get fed at home will never solve this problem for the child. In many ways it only reinforces a learning process that someone other than the parent is responsible for raising and feeding the child.
I am 100% in favor of guaranteeing that no child ever goes hungry. With that being said I invite all readers to conduct a sociological experiment to see first hand the abuses of the public assistance programs which take place daily in Harford County as well as all over the nation. Go to any convenience store, particularly the ones that sell alcohol, in the Rt. 40 area during the evening hours. Watch what happens. People will come in and purchase chips, candy, soda, and other junk food utilizing their Independence cards. (equivalent to the old food stamps) They will then reach in to their pockets and pull out a wad of cash and purchase alcohol, cigarettes, and wrappers primarily used to smoke marijuana. When I worked in the police field I had occasion to do narcotics investigations. Marijuana is not cheap, probably 2-3 hundred dollars an ounce depending upon who you know. If these people are on public assistance how can they afford to buy drugs. Who is being cheated. I am going to guess the children of these people are the ones who are being shorted. I hope that people will not hold the children responsible for being hungry due to the selfish entitlement feelings of their parents.
They can deliver anywhere with the free meals. If u live in a development or summer school in a harford county public school call that number to get the free meals for kids. It’s a government program so take advantage of it.