To the editor:
Apparently Fort Fairfield has a very SAD situation feeding students. When I was growing up my father
raised pigs. As the mother pig fed the little piglets there always seemed to be one runt. This little piglet was always feeding off the hind teat where there was much less nourishment and he remained little all his/her life from the lack of food the other piglets were getting.
When I attended Fort Fairfield HS I worked at the school’s hot lunch program during lunch all four years collecting quarters from the students. That was the cost of lunch back in the mid-1950s — what a bargain.
I feel it is a shame when some 6-12 grade students do not get the same meal as others do, just because parents do not do their part in supporting the school lunch program. Are these same parents still using their big boys/girls toys and are involved in other activities that the school, town, clubs, churches etc. make available to them that they spend monies on in the community. Do any of these parents work for a local-, state- or federally-funded job.
There are lots of funds coming from school and town budgets for all sorts of extra-curricular activities that perhaps don’t improve our town’s well being.
I hope in the future students living out in The Country won’t be suspended from riding on school buses because their parents don’t pay their property taxes.
My question is why are schools having problems feeding 6-12th grade students when we are sending food to many parts of the world. Are foreign countries paying for their children’s school lunches. It is time to suck it up and feed the children and thank God we are blessed to live in an area where we can do it.
Loomis Craig
Presque Isle
