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If a kid was able to do this by saving his allowance, then it can't possibly be very much compared to resources of a school or its surrounding tax base. Give the kids their food.
Yeah usually they'd cut kids off from lunch after like 10ish dollars of lunch debt for my school, like 5 meals behind max.
So a class worth of school lunch debt legit might be like 100$, and prevent a handful from being allowed lunch anymore. The level of petty is absurd.
It's a news article from 2019 for Ryan Kirkpatrick at Westpark Elementary School (a public school in Irvine California). He paid off the debt for only his 3rd grade class (not the whole school, not the whole 3rd grade, just his class). It was a total of $74.50. However, the school still serves hot lunches to kids with a negative balance on their account.
Apparently he paid it anonymously. (???)
Just stating facts above, but yeah, my opinion is that all public school lunches should be free.
This, the problem is easily solved, but unforutnately the cruelty is the point, as some people still think "It builds character!"
When in reality it builds trauma
Every time I read about this I remind people of the Iowa governor.
The feds offered free money to help clear Iowa kids lunch debt.
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds turned it down because "we are in an obesity epidemic".
Read that a couple of times to yourself just to let it sink in. Conservatives are about hurting people just so they can get a couple of easy points in the polls, even if it means literally letting innocent children of poor families go hungry.
Obesity can actually be caused by not eating enough
No really, your body thinks you're in a time of famine and holds onto EVERYTHING it can... You also get more stressed which causes your body to store your adrealine as extra fat.
i think my body is broken because it has always held on to everything it can :/
The trigger for that is epigenetic, that is, it's caused by genes but they aren't always active. There's a "blocker" molecule on the DNA that prevents those sections from being used for making proteins. When certain things change in the environment, you can gain or lose those blocker molecules.
One of them controls fat storage, and activates during starvation to encourage your body to hold onto any nutrients it can get. Because it is genetic though, it's inheritable. So if any of your parents or grandparents went through a famine or a time of starvation, the epigenetic marker could have been removed and you inherit that missing marker, causing your body to store fat more than other people who have the marker still.
THAT explains why I got fat. I was a middle weight wrestler and cut weight when I was an adolescent. According to this, starving myself in my teens must have flipped a genetic switch from which I'm suffering 50 years later.
Covid Kim Reynolds is one of the worst people you could ever meet.
What is school lunch debt?
We're not ok in the USA
In a nutshell, it's capitalism at its worst.
Long story short, because giving students lunch on taxpayer money would be socialist, the USA decided to charge children to eat food made by the school cafeteria.
In theory this is good if you want to send your kid to school with food to eat, you don't have to pay for lunches that your kid won't eat, whether directly, or indirectly, through taxes.
In reality, kids, or more accurately, their parents, either can't or won't pay for the food that their kids eat from the school cafeteria, most notably the former.
Instead of simply not feeding the kids, they just accrue debt for eating the food prepared by the school for them.
Thus, school lunch debt represents the worst of capitalism. The kids, and/or their parents are being billed for the children eating food.
It's weird to me because I didn't go to a school with a working cafeteria (one that makes food) until highschool, and it was basically just a cafe in the school, you paid for what you wanted when you bought it from the cafeteria. No money, no food.
I was always sent to school from grade 1, with a lunch in hand because of this. I understand the convenience of having a school able to prepare and serve lunch to the kids, but I'm not aware of any where I am that do that. To be fair, I haven't been in school that wasn't a college/uni, for over 25 years. Maybe things have changed here? IDK.
To add to this. Some schools won't give official graduation from various levels of school or diplomas if you have lunch debt
Doesn't this kids parents pay for it? How else does he get "allowance"?
I know another way parents can contribute to the so-called lunch debt...
Wait what if everyone just paid a little bit of money so that kids could eat. Even people without kids would pay and it would just be taken out of their payβ¦ or kids can go hungryβ¦
I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time... I kind of don't want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ''we can't just feed children'' crowd is that they don't want their tax money, or anyone else's helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There's a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Just doing what makes sense is so easy even a child does a better job then literal government.
Government keeps trying.
One side keeps saying no.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/21/house-republicans-ban-universal-school-lunches/