Nutrition and Human Needs--1971: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, Part 9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Food relief |
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Page 2511 - A report of the Food and Nutrition Board. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Publication 1146, Washington.
Page 2482 - ... juice, and milk. For the past 18 months we have been serving three meals a day to our children. I think that we are probably the only school district in the Nation doing this. I have been in favor of universal feeding for public school children for many years. We at San Diego Independent School District have been in reality practicing this for the past 4 or 5 years since above 90 percent of our students eat at the cafeteria. The public school cafeteria is a perfect meeting place for the rich...
Page 2521 - MEALS The conference amendment to the eligibility standard for free and reduced-price lunches makes it clear that every child from a household with an income below the poverty level shall be served free or reducedprice meals. A national standard for the poverty level, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be used as the standard of eligibility in lieu of the multistandard as included in the original Senatepassed bill. It is expected that this will be the same as established by the...
Page 2527 - ... Too much of his life has consisted of the experience that if he doesn't grab it now, he won't get it later on. Another reason why an education that takes so many years to achieve results (jobs, money ) is unable to reach children who do not believe that future rewards can result from energy spent now because they have not learned that food will always be there for them and they hence don't need to grab it now. In my efforts to teach teachers this seemingly simple principle I was nearly always...
Page 2527 - ... that, while gorging oneself is understandable when one is deprived, controlling one's desires is to one's advantage. I think the school day in our inner city schools should begin not with the Pledge of Allegiance, but with a hearty breakfast, eaten in class, with the teacher. Eating together is what makes for allegiance between people, and eventually to one's country. Nothing is more divisive than when people eat a different fare, in different rooms, the one of inferior, the other of superior...
Page 2478 - This program has been one of the most helpful ones which has been inaugurated and promises to contribute more to the cause of public education in these United States than has any other policy which has been adopted since the creation of free public schools.
Page 2524 - Eating and being fed are intimately connected with our deepest feelings. They are the most basic interactions between human beings, on which rest all later evaluations of ourself, of the world, and of our relationship to it.
Page 2527 - ... think the school day in our inner city schools should begin not with the Pledge of Allegiance, but with a hearty breakfast, eaten in class, with the teacher. Eating together is what makes for allegiance between people, and eventually to one's country. Nothing is more divisive than when people eat a different fare, in different rooms, the one of inferior, the other of superior quality. But this is exactly what is typical in our schools at lunch, and it is in the school cafeteria where most discipline...
Page 2473 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do have a prepared statement which I would like to submit for the record.
Page 2468 - ... Now what this does : It gives that man the opportunity. Some will and some won't. Mr. VAN ZANDT. Yes. But we say this establishes an inequity as far as Army Reserve officers are concerned. What lam trying to find out is : Are we establishing another inequity that may affect the Reserve officers of the Navy or the Air Force or the Marine Corps or the Coast Guard? Colonel BOYER. It doesn't affect the Air Force at all. The Navy will need a slight amendment when we come to it, for this reason, that...