I 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.