Editor, Gazette-Journal:

School lunches used to be just 25 cents, 3 cents for milk and, if you were lucky, a nickel for an ice cream sandwich. Man, the world has changed since I was a kid. Today, a school lunch in Gloucester runs I guess about two bucks and the debate nationally is how to fund it and what do we do with those who cannot afford lunch and those who abuse our kindness.

In our economic times, where fewer choose to have children and those whose children are grown pay more and more to educate others, school boards such as Willingboro, N.J., have chosen to rethink education’s role in nutrition. Should schools feed everyone, often twice a day? Should this cost even be part of a school’s budget? Maybe not.

Willingboro waits to see if the child can pay and, if not, dumps the meal in the trash in a very wasteful and cruel act. But they are making a statement. Some schools give the child a cheese sandwich and an IOU. Better, but probably fixes nothing. I am not ...