As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230622233542/https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    In my school (blue state) anyone who couldn't afford lunch just got a single, relatively small grilled cheese sandwich and nothing else, not an apple, not a carton of milk, nothing. Guess empty carbs that'll keep you from being hungry for another hour is the liberal compromise?

    Mind you I just graduated high school a couple years ago ago and I still saw that happen semi often

    • TheWorldSpins [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      This was late 90s / early 2000s. They would offer a peanut butter sandwich and a water cup, but the peanut butter was like... off. Very thick and salty, unsweetened with a dirt after-taste. Plus you had to ask in front of your class for it in line so I never did it more than a couple times.

      not an apple, not a carton of milk, nothing

      Nutrition isn't for the poors according to American ISDs I guess.

      • American_Badass [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I've said this on here before, but my mom was a lunch lady at a small school. It was like her and some other lady that did the cooking, then the lady who ran the register.

        Giving out just the peanut butter sandwich with the required milk and vegetable or whatever was something they all refused to do.

        Mom would just make a tray and set it in this window thing where they could just grab it, subtle, no big deal. You cannot give three rural ass Midwest moms a bunch of food and tell them to deny it to school children.

        If I want to have mom sound like a communist, I just mention that they give kids at school bad lunches for no money.