@kensanata To be fair, applying for free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch is a one-page form for people who need it. It's just middle and upper class kids who have to remember to ask their parents for money.
@webbureaucrat @kensanata that's... Somehow making it worse. Yet another piece in a ludicrous bureaucracy that subjugates people that the US became
@stooovie @webbureaucrat @kensanata
Also it ignores that reduced price =/= free and therefore excuses not feeding children who had the TEMERITY to choose poor parents.
Hungry children don't learn, this isn't a debate.
Reduced price is for kids with parents who could afford to pay a small amount. Kids who have parents who can't afford to pay receive free lunches.
These are programs I know about because I benefited from them and I am happy to educate you, but if you're going to use caps with me then go fly a kite.
@webbureaucrat @Homebrewandhacking @stooovie Did you know it’s easier and cheaper to just feed all the kids? Means testing adds substantial administrative costs and is based in the idea that poverty is a moral weakness and that you can’t take care of people without making them first prove that they deserve it.
Just feed the kids.
Just feed them.
What a good idea! Remove the admin costs and just feed kids nutritional meals so they can not be hungry and learn.
Always the first thing to go. School Milk for children, food to help kids who don't get fed at home to concentrate.
@Homebrewandhacking @webbureaucrat @stooovie It’s what our district does — free breakfast and free hot lunch for any child who wants one — and our district is HUGE — over 320,000 kids. It WORKS.
@Homebrewandhacking @webbureaucrat @stooovie We even managed to provide families with a food allowance for their children when school was remote due to the pandemic. There is NO excuse for letting children go hungry. Not one.
@shawrd773 @webbureaucrat @stooovie
Now _that_, that is inspirational. Some proper champions of children there.
@Homebrewandhacking @webbureaucrat @stooovie Our district is shitty in many ways, but they did get this right.
Hah. My government had to be shamed into feeding children by a footballer. The bar is buried deep in the floor.