@TonyStark
I once applied for a job at a private school. Lunches were included in their tuition so every kid got a meal. No register.

#Republicans are SO intent on destroying the Public School System so that all those tax dollars can go to (partially fund) private schools, they'll NEVER agree to pay for meals for every child.

@TonyStark I was a poor kid in a rich place. I still have very powerful memories of the shame I experienced at lunchtime in public school.

Some GOP, like Paul Ryan, like to share a story about how kids prefer a "home made" lunch, because it's about "love" or some Mist.

No. I wanted that fucking square school pizza. Pizza was sit down restaurant food to me. It was like dining out in my childhood mind.

@TonyStark

I couldn't read the article, but the lead in says something about "Why can't Democrats..." Why are they asking only Democrats? Because Democrats would get raked over the coals by GQPers if they suggested feeding children, and the GQP's whole tax and spend bullshit would win them elections. Christo-fascism and an end to democracy in the US is one election away. So, there's that.

@TonyStark Not to mention the costs of collecting payments. If school cafeteria staff don't have to operate point-of-sale stations, they can focus on preparing and serving instead.

But also maybe make an effort to keep sponsored placements and trucked-in food service out of that space. Meal prep on site from staple ingredients, visible to the students. We used to have cooks in school, instead of Sysco meal-microwavers.

@TonyStark Feed the hungry & the poor.

A Christian obligation too radical for today's "Republicans"?

It shouldn't be for any human being able to give, able to be a compassionate, caring & conscientious member of human mankind.

#UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #FeedTheKids #CommunityCounts

@TonyStark better yet, feed every child every meal. It shouldn't be limited to school lunch. We should have mechanisms to pay for every child's food.

Paying for it is just distraction fluff - - the vast majority of meals are already paid for. Finding the money to finance it is nonsense.

That's also ignoring that, kids with reliable meals grow up and contribute more to the tax base - - it would actually be profitable for society to do it.

No child chooses their parents or parents circumstances. They don't choose their neighborhoods or communities. They don't have capacity to take care of themselves meaningfully. They are absent of agency - any time they suffer due to circumstance is on all of us.

@TonyStark

I'm old but when I was in grade school, we all ate lunch in the lunchroom together. We ate the same lunch. I loved Wednesday bc that was Bean w Bacon Soup day & that was my favorite. It was Campbell's. I didn't know any better.
Point being, this was in a middle class suburb of Milwaukee WI in the 1960s. Who broke it? REAGAN

@TonyStark

This concept is inarguable..

Jamie