Badtux the Snarky PenguinJun 20, 2023

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

Show threadOrmanJun 20, 2023
@badtux Would you be able to elaborate on why it took an entire department? Are there complicated requirements surrounding free lunches?
Show threadBadtux the Snarky Penguin
@orman Complicated requirements surrounding free lunches? ROFL! Free lunch was its own silo, with its own computers and software talking to Fed computers and software, complex validation procedures to validate that a kid that the Feds said was eligible was in fact the same kid who was listed as getting free lunch in our computer, then paperwork processing because we needed applications and signatures from all those parents... it was a paperwork nightmare.
Jun 20, 2023 at 8:07pmWeb