Congratulations to the school administrators in Madison and Mitchell counties for their success in working hard to achieve the free lunch program for not just some, but for all their students. Too bad that the Yancey County school administrators find the state requirements to obtain access to the free lunch program just too complicated and all the numerous barriers that the CEP program requires is just way too complex to implement into action. Our neighboring counties schools did not allow these potential obstacles to deter them from achieving something that they set out to obtain for their communities’ greatest resources, which is their children. Whether it’s the money or the prestige of sitting on a board or placed in a position that occupies elected members minds and time, they need to remember why that they were elected for the position to begin with, which is to work to obtain any state and/or government resources that will benefit the children. If someone does not have either the courage, the determination or perhaps the education that is needed to accomplish these goals, then it would be better for everyone if they would not seek these positions. To sum it up, Yancey County Schools, you failed.