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 threadchicatingJun 20, 2023
@badtux Somebody I talked to recently said he didn't trust the government to feed his kids and that maybe they'd make her eat them. Kinda nuts, right?
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@chicating The Federal school lunch program has been around since 1946. Thus far no parents have been eaten as part of the Federal school lunch program, regardless of what nutty conspiracy theorists think. I gotta figure that if it's been around for almost 80 years and no parents have been eaten, it ain't gonna happen, lol.
Jun 20, 2023 at 8:21pmWeb
Show threadchicatingJun 20, 2023
@badtux Ha, ha...I was afraid it would read like that...the object of my verb wasn't clear...this is how rumors get started. He was afraid his daughter would be forced to eat food full of additives and whatnot. Not soylent green, though.