Getting an education …

In recent days there have been several stories in the news around education, and issues surrounding it.  The first that caught my attention was a story in what used to be called the Georgia Strait – and is now simply the Strait. 

The story was titled “Advocates push for school lunch program funding in BC”.    In the story, nutrition crusader Lisa Werring said that that about a third of elementary-school kids in Canada don’t eat a daily breakfast.  This information came from a study released last year by Breakfast for Learning.  This organizations view is that hungry kids can’t learn (no argument from me), which is why it gave out $131,675 for school breakfast programs in BC in 2009.

Now I am not going to say that low income families are wasting their money (although some do just like everyone else), but a healthy and nutritious breakfast of regular oatmeal (not individual flavored packets) is just pennies a day.  A four litre jug of milk is $4.00 and how many cups of milk do you get from that … and then an apple, an orange, or banana.