Over 50 percent of Pickens students on free or reduced lunch

Well why not? Free school, free food, cigarettes, and whatever else food stamps get, free lawyers WHEN they break the law, free medical care at emergency rooms when they arrive from their knife-fights, axe-fights, etc. Hey, it's my money, I love letting less-fortunate/ lazy people get a free ride. They know their rights, you had better believe it. Here's a suggestion: let's birth some more babies into this cesspool of a country. Yeah, that's the ticket. God bless America!

Let's starve these kids. Trump would work them and then not pay them. Bankrupt his way out of it.

What would Trumputinism say to do? Exploit them! NO increase in working wages. END worker protections. End child labor laws--these pesky regulations that are strangling all those multinational (Chinese and Russian [communist]) job creators Trump is bringing here to save us, and these poor kids. Don't look to his tax returns (debt records) to see who owns him, though.

Truth is, it's these kid's fault for choosing poor parents and continuing to pal around with poor mothers, or poor parents, if they have two. And, they don't vote Republican, no matter how dumbed down and hate filled the GOP message, so who needs them.

Pickens has long stayed a proud part of poor Appalachia, even with the 4-lane and the gated communities. Seems the lust for ignorance and the lack of compassion still keeps it that way.

What would Jesus do? Doesn't matter. Putin's useful idiot sets the social and political tone now, and few people around here step up to help others, especially those least able to help themselves. Hope you enjoy the crime wave and social disorder that neglecting children brings down on you all. Sports over literacy, greed over fairness.

Let them eat high fructose corn sweetener, and take away affordable health care. Pickens' hospital can close like Gilmer's… the rich will go elsewhere.