During the summer each year, I year the same BS that x amount kids in America go hungry. I call BS on that, when was the last time you seen a starving child in America? You haven't. They are all fat. Calling a fat kid hungry is a oxymoron. These kids could go without a meal or two and it would actually help them.
I agree. It is rare for Americans to go Hungary. Some may make it as far as Austria, but most European vacations don't reach any farther east than that. Unfortunate, because Budapest seems like a cool city.
I'm absolutely speechless..
A belly doesn't necessarily mean they are fat. COuld mean they are starving.
The ones in the USA are more likely malnourished from eating things with barely any nutrients yet lots of calories. It's the same here with all of the drive about breakfast clubs and kids going hungry when a lot of them are overweight. It is sad to be honest. I don't think it goes much of a way to fix it as it obscures the issue.
I call BS wrote:
During the summer each year, I year the same BS that x amount kids in America go hungry. I call BS on that, when was the last time you seen a starving child in America? You haven't. They are all fat. Calling a fat kid hungry is a oxymoron. These kids could go without a meal or two and it would actually help them.
+1 totally agree. A retired virtue signaling school teacher in NH decided that her students used to look tired and inattentive on Monday morings which meant to her that they had nothing to eat all weekend and so she started"68 hours of Hunger" to collect food for them. 68 hours is FOUR FRICKIN DAYS!
These kids also get breakfast and lunch FREE all week at school. Has she been in contact with these kids parents or social services? No. And at least half the kids in NH are overweight to obese. These menopausal old broads in this thing pester us constantly for money or personal involvement in this ludicrous "program."
I call BS wrote:
During the summer each year, I year the same BS that x amount kids in America go hungry. I call BS on that, when was the last time you seen a starving child in America? You haven't. They are all fat. Calling a fat kid hungry is a oxymoron. These kids could go without a meal or two and it would actually help them.
As a kid I'd have to ration an entire loaf of bread for 3 weeks between 3 people. This would go on for a couple years I'd say that's going hungry...
It's clear you've never faced a day of adversity in your life. I bet you think getting outkicked in a race is true adversity and a test of how much perseverance and fight one has to come back after losing.
Must be nice to have lived a life of luxury as a kid. It shows.
I grew up in a trailer park where everyone was dirt poor. I never went hungry and I don't know anyone else who did either. We ate like crap, but there was always food.
The only kids who go hungry to are the ones who have meth head parents.
I agree. American kids these days just aren't tough enough to handle Iglói training.
not hungry wrote:
I grew up in a trailer park where everyone was dirt poor. I never went hungry and I don't know anyone else who did either. We ate like crap, but there was always food.
The only kids who go hungry to are the ones who have meth head parents.
True. And in fact our poor, especially in urban areas, are basically subsidized. The only way to go hungry is to have the parents hog the food.
But kids going to Hungary? That's even more rare here in the US than starving kids.
I have a sister who teaches pre-school age kids in a very poor neighborhood in the southern US. While these children may not be "going hungry" in a 1980's, Ethopian famine type of way, my understanding is many would be fortunate to get one decent meal a day (were it not for the school donors who provide breakfast and lunch) due to radically dysfunctional "home" living situations.
Instead of parading your ignorance, you would be better served by educating yourself.
When I lived in Arkansas the schools sent the kids home with backpacks full of kid food (lunchables, small boxes of cereal) on the weekend. This was because the parents would sell or trade their government subsidies for opioids and the kids would show up to school on Monday having not eaten all weekend until school breakfast.
Good on Arkansas schools. Too bad kids can have awful parents, sometimes.
I agree OP, It's a long way to go for a Summer camp.
The poorer the kid, the fatter they are.
OP is total troll.
Yes, there are hungry kids. We live in what most folks would call a nice neighborhood. In a town that is frequently "top 20" on some list. There are hungry kids and kids that worry about their next meal. I had no idea, until we had kids and became involved in various soccer, choir, football and other misc. activities.
People are very good at hiding their poverty. Hang around kids long enough and you'll get a sometimes depressing view into their world. We are talking about white kids with a parent that works.
I'm only posting this for people like myself that have never been exposed to it. I really had no idea until recently.
They may worry about it but they are getting their food. What is the BMI of those kids? What type of cell phone do they have? No kids are starving in the US but most are way overweight.
