• thebrownhaze@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow. The first person on this thread to not just insult me.

    I have no issue with free school meals, I just don’t want them to be universal, feeding rich kids is crazy.

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      1 year ago

      It’s easier for everyone to have free meals than a select few, I feel. It would also get rid of an easy target on lower income kids being bullied for having the “free lunch”.

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        1 year ago

        Probably also much cheaper per. Trying to set up a meals program for the fee underprivileged - probably should just order Panera delivered. But if you go through the overhead of setting up a program, the cost of more meals is probably marginal.

        Also, how about when kids forget. Why does it always seem to be the teacher who has to buy emergency food?

        To me, it’s like prison: kids always compare school to prison, so let’s go with that. The government is forcing them to be there past meal times, and not letting them out. The school is claiming parental authority to watch out for their needs. One of them is food, dammit