At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.
The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop#antichild#school#lunch#meanness
In Sweden all children in the school years that are mandatory gets free lunches everyday of school.
They need good food to be able to do the school work and it’s easier for parents too. Plus it equalises different families means to supply lunch either from financial or nutritional view.
@badtux excellent perspective. Means testing lunch for school children is bizarre to me. My kid started pre-k last year and lunches cost us $2.60 a day. We’re fortunate enough that that wasn’t an issue for us, but the district had been providing lunch free, for all, during Covid. So suddenly having the parents foot the bill again is needlessly stressful for so many. And as you’ve said in other replies hungry students don’t perform well. What is the purpose other than cruelty?
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