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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.
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.
Let's blame the poor people for being poor. Sometimes life is not fair and we should treat people with empathy. But yeah, let the kids suffer for the problems in society that rich fucks created.
Holy shit get off your high horse. You said exactly one sane thing: we should not let children be hungry at school. That's it. You have no idea what situations these people are in. They might only be scrounging 1 meal a day, maybe less. Frankly it doesn't matter in the slightest.
I hope you get to experience why your point is wrong.
Man, I hope not. I don't wish that shit on anyone.
You're nicer than me. But some people only learn from experience.
Did you know over 70% of all homeless people were in foster care. Did you know the cost to raise a kid outpaced the median income 30 years ago. Did you know punishing the children because of some misguided understanding of morality is the reason kids go hungry in the first place. Also just because a kid has a home lunch doesn't mean it's quality food. What needs to happen is a national free food for everyone program. Not like we're the "wealthiest" country on earth.
Just because a school provides lunch doesn't mean its quality food either.
As adults that's our problem to resolve.
While I don't have kids right now, I don't have the power to change a schools lunch menu. I do have the power to make a packed lunch.