GodlessCommieA headline that only exists in a dystopian Society.
TilgareI came into the thread prepared to be angry, then they said, “neglecting your child’s right to food”, and honestly, that’s exactly what the parents are doing. If they don’t want to pay for school lunch, pack one. If you want to do neither, choosing not to feed your child at all does sound like neglect, and the school is picking up the slack.
School lunch is so important for learning outcomes, lunch should be covered by tax revenue anyways. I hope we get there one day. But these parents sent their child to school knowing full well how the system works today.
If they don’t have food because they can’t afford it, the kid should just starve rather than the school having to front the cost?
A child not having food security while attending school is a societal failure. If we can afford to spend more than multiple countries combined on our military and send billions in military aid to other countries and have more billionaires than any other country, we can afford to publicly subsidize public school lunch.
Fuck your “they knew how the system worked” stance. That’s a lazy excuse that allows you to blame poor people for being poor rather than challenging the validity of the system.