If we cannot afford to feed every child in our school system then maybe we should try eating the rich?
warmyfeather on
The fact that we have to fight for kids to eat lunch while billionaires are out here buying their third yacht is absolutely unhinged.
zer1223 on
Best I can offer you is: (corporate bailouts that become corporate buybacks, corporate subsidies, Trump’s literal wallet, equipment for the goose-steppers and election campaigns and propaganda programs for the pedophile ring wagon circling GOP? Oh right and Israeli bombs Yeeesh)
Hey let’s go out and get an ice cream, okay?
eluneduskria on
Tax dollars are meant to invest in the future. There is no better investment than the health and well-being of a child. School lunch shouldn’t be a subscription service
Final_Level on
I aint got kids and THIS is where I want my tax dollars to go to as well.
Dclnsfrd on
Power fears an educated proletariat; doing things like fuckig with the enemy’s food supply is a common battle tactic
sinisterpsychoo on
When I was in high school (graduated 2012) iv seen my friends eat nothing because they couldn’t afford food. So I always got them a trey. I eventually went negative and was told no more until it was paid off. Good thing I worked in high school, wrote them a check and I was good.
Lontology on
Anyone who thinks otherwise is garbage.
ASquareBanana on
The only reason I could eat at school (a place you have to be mandatorily) was because of free lunch programs. And those weren’t always available so the humiliation you would feel as your card/number got declined and the lunch lady had to take you food from you in front of everyone is a surreal moment for a child/teen. We can do better and it’s an utter shame this nation is so focused on protecting child abusers than making sure children can be fed.
Fuck trump, fuck ice, there’s more of us than there are of them
PhantomTissue on
I remember they’d still give me something. Stale bread and rancid cheese. I wouldn’t eat it but they did give me something.
Volaceon950 on
went to a charter high school school that had our parents add money to virtual “bank accounts” for lunch. Even in 2014 shit felt dystopian paying for lunch with your fingerprint.
SIPR_Sipper on
Just for the record, [the National School Lunch Program is the second largest food assistance program in the country.](https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp) Pretty much anyone that needs free lunch can very easily be apply and get free or subsidized lunch.
Its always weird to hear reddit’s discussion around school lunches when its one of the few areas that America has a very successful track record and established program.
mostie2016 on
At the school district I went to as a kid they gave those kids cold cheese sandwiches for lunch and this was in the early 2000s.
Goldeneye0X1_ on
Whenever I play a game of Democracy 3/4, one of the first things I do it pass Free School Lunches. It helps Health and Education, and it feels correct.
Silber_567 on
Happened to me when I was in elementary, tho they did give me the driest and stalest sandwich with ham and cheese
mdogg500 on
I was always a forgetful kid my parents weren’t well off but I never had to go hungry due to lack of funds except when I reached middle school. In elementary they would let you run a tab that you would just pay back. However once we moved into the middle school/high school if you didn’t have cash or money on your account your not eating. They would take that plate back and throw it away because we can’t serve it to anyone else. Sometimes I’d just forget the last time I had lunch my balance ran out and come the next day without cash to replenish it and go hungry for the rest of the day.
clinicalia on
I remember when I was in middle school and it was my first day. Went to get lunch and got denied. Sat down at a table and went hungry that day. Later found out it was because my family made $5 over the limit of what they could make for me to qualify for getting free lunches. Lol.
ThatDamnedGuy on
Sorry, did you say you wanted your tax dollars to go to the military? Or was it bailouts for giant corporations?
SockYourself on
Cruel. It would be cruel to an adult, but for a kid? They’re developing actively, and they need good square meals. A sign of generational poverty.
uncreativemind2099 on
Sad part is republicans smile at this because they are scum
karebearjedi on
You must not be in the US. They’ve been doing this since at least the 80s. You bring a lunch, you pay for a lunch, or you don’t get one. Some schools will hand out peanut butter sandwiches to kids with no food or money, but that’s just a few districts compared to the rest. BTW, it’s shit. It’s a shit system and every kid deserves good food
Speeddemon2016 on
Nah, I want another billion sent to israel please. /s
Scottz0rz on
It’s great because literally the best solution to the problem is just giving every kid free lunch at school, it doesn’t cost very much, we’ve done it before during COVID, and it demonstrably has a huge return on investment with better academic achievement to make sure kids aren’t hungry, which pays off as an investment in society.
If you enforce lunch debt, that kid might not get fed at home or at all.
And something worse, if you do targeted aid by letting parents apply for free/discounted lunch based on income, then this creates more issues:
1. Parents that are neglectful/abusive may be less likely to even bother applying for aid.
2. It adds extra administrative burden and slows down lunch lines to differentiate lunch costs.
3. Worst of all, having a stamp or some way to easily differentiate free/discounted lunch opens up opportunities to bully kids for being poor.
Just making lunch free for everyone would make things way smoother and solve so many issues.
But nahhhhhhhhh right-wingers dont like big gubmint spending unless it’s used for military force on civilians both foreign and domestic, so fuck dem kids.
Alchemistofflesh on
this was literally me in school. so damn embarrassing; you already had your whole tray of food and when you got to the checkout line you were essentially declined and had to put it back. i hated lunch so damn much as a kid, everyday of school was full of embarrassment and defeat for my most basic needs
cinderflowyne on
In many other places, schools still rely on federal reimbursements that don’t cover everyone, leading to the “debt” mentioned in your post.
cbrown146 on
“Nope, best I can do for you is sending taxes off to fight wars in a country you can barely pronounce.”
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If we cannot afford to feed every child in our school system then maybe we should try eating the rich?
The fact that we have to fight for kids to eat lunch while billionaires are out here buying their third yacht is absolutely unhinged.
Best I can offer you is: (corporate bailouts that become corporate buybacks, corporate subsidies, Trump’s literal wallet, equipment for the goose-steppers and election campaigns and propaganda programs for the pedophile ring wagon circling GOP? Oh right and Israeli bombs Yeeesh)
Hey let’s go out and get an ice cream, okay?
Tax dollars are meant to invest in the future. There is no better investment than the health and well-being of a child. School lunch shouldn’t be a subscription service
I aint got kids and THIS is where I want my tax dollars to go to as well.
Power fears an educated proletariat; doing things like fuckig with the enemy’s food supply is a common battle tactic
When I was in high school (graduated 2012) iv seen my friends eat nothing because they couldn’t afford food. So I always got them a trey. I eventually went negative and was told no more until it was paid off. Good thing I worked in high school, wrote them a check and I was good.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is garbage.
The only reason I could eat at school (a place you have to be mandatorily) was because of free lunch programs. And those weren’t always available so the humiliation you would feel as your card/number got declined and the lunch lady had to take you food from you in front of everyone is a surreal moment for a child/teen. We can do better and it’s an utter shame this nation is so focused on protecting child abusers than making sure children can be fed.
Fuck trump, fuck ice, there’s more of us than there are of them
I remember they’d still give me something. Stale bread and rancid cheese. I wouldn’t eat it but they did give me something.
went to a charter high school school that had our parents add money to virtual “bank accounts” for lunch. Even in 2014 shit felt dystopian paying for lunch with your fingerprint.
Just for the record, [the National School Lunch Program is the second largest food assistance program in the country.](https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp) Pretty much anyone that needs free lunch can very easily be apply and get free or subsidized lunch.
Its always weird to hear reddit’s discussion around school lunches when its one of the few areas that America has a very successful track record and established program.
At the school district I went to as a kid they gave those kids cold cheese sandwiches for lunch and this was in the early 2000s.
Whenever I play a game of Democracy 3/4, one of the first things I do it pass Free School Lunches. It helps Health and Education, and it feels correct.
Happened to me when I was in elementary, tho they did give me the driest and stalest sandwich with ham and cheese
I was always a forgetful kid my parents weren’t well off but I never had to go hungry due to lack of funds except when I reached middle school. In elementary they would let you run a tab that you would just pay back. However once we moved into the middle school/high school if you didn’t have cash or money on your account your not eating. They would take that plate back and throw it away because we can’t serve it to anyone else. Sometimes I’d just forget the last time I had lunch my balance ran out and come the next day without cash to replenish it and go hungry for the rest of the day.
I remember when I was in middle school and it was my first day. Went to get lunch and got denied. Sat down at a table and went hungry that day. Later found out it was because my family made $5 over the limit of what they could make for me to qualify for getting free lunches. Lol.
Sorry, did you say you wanted your tax dollars to go to the military? Or was it bailouts for giant corporations?
Cruel. It would be cruel to an adult, but for a kid? They’re developing actively, and they need good square meals. A sign of generational poverty.
Sad part is republicans smile at this because they are scum
You must not be in the US. They’ve been doing this since at least the 80s. You bring a lunch, you pay for a lunch, or you don’t get one. Some schools will hand out peanut butter sandwiches to kids with no food or money, but that’s just a few districts compared to the rest. BTW, it’s shit. It’s a shit system and every kid deserves good food
Nah, I want another billion sent to israel please. /s
It’s great because literally the best solution to the problem is just giving every kid free lunch at school, it doesn’t cost very much, we’ve done it before during COVID, and it demonstrably has a huge return on investment with better academic achievement to make sure kids aren’t hungry, which pays off as an investment in society.
If you enforce lunch debt, that kid might not get fed at home or at all.
And something worse, if you do targeted aid by letting parents apply for free/discounted lunch based on income, then this creates more issues:
1. Parents that are neglectful/abusive may be less likely to even bother applying for aid.
2. It adds extra administrative burden and slows down lunch lines to differentiate lunch costs.
3. Worst of all, having a stamp or some way to easily differentiate free/discounted lunch opens up opportunities to bully kids for being poor.
Just making lunch free for everyone would make things way smoother and solve so many issues.
But nahhhhhhhhh right-wingers dont like big gubmint spending unless it’s used for military force on civilians both foreign and domestic, so fuck dem kids.
this was literally me in school. so damn embarrassing; you already had your whole tray of food and when you got to the checkout line you were essentially declined and had to put it back. i hated lunch so damn much as a kid, everyday of school was full of embarrassment and defeat for my most basic needs
In many other places, schools still rely on federal reimbursements that don’t cover everyone, leading to the “debt” mentioned in your post.
“Nope, best I can do for you is sending taxes off to fight wars in a country you can barely pronounce.”