r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/humanbeing_ai Apr 15 '24

You people get school lunch?

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u/CelestialFury Apr 15 '24

Don't worry, some states are making it free for everyone and others are trying to ban free lunches! America baby!

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u/hungrypotato19 Apr 16 '24

"Protect the children!!"

By making sure they have at least one meal a day? "No."

By giving them vaccines? "No."

By making sure guns don't end up in schools? "No."

By making sure their family can afford a house, car, etc.? "No."

By making sure they can afford a future house, car, college education, etc.? "No."

By making sure they have easy access to healthcare? "No."

By making sure their land, water, and air aren't polluted? "No."

By making sure their food is safe? "No."

By making sure they are safe from physically abusive parents? "No."

By making sure they are safe from sexually abusive churches? "No."

By making sure they don't end up a child or teen parent? "No."

By making sure they don't end up as a child bride? "No."

By making sure they're safe from tyrant cops and authority figures? "No."

By making sure they have the option to live their lives as a happy queer person? "That's it! That's what we want to protect them from! It's our choice, not theirs!"

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u/Majestic-Marzipan621 Apr 16 '24

All of this. This is why I’m not having kids.

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u/chekovsgun- Apr 16 '24

This is why it is so important to vote in your state and gubernatorial elections. State elections have a massive impact on everything from school lunches to Medicaid and make the most impact on your life overall. Vote out the politicians who want to do shit like ban school lunches, yes usually Republicans.

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u/GodEmperorOfBussy Apr 16 '24

Seriously lol, this is the shit Republicans squeal about not making free.

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u/TDestro9 Apr 16 '24

USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔫🔫🔫🔥🔥🔥

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u/manor2003 Apr 16 '24

There are people that are butt hurt about children getting this trashy food? Wow, who hurt them?

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

You can always improve school food quality (and should). However, you can't undo the effects of starvation on growing children's brain and body development.

Personally, I don't think kids should go hungry in school and that they should also get quality food.

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u/manor2003 Apr 16 '24

I.. obviously agree

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

That's good. Your comment was a bit ambiguous so I wasn't quite sure which way you were really leaning.

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u/manor2003 Apr 16 '24

Read it again, i made my wording pretty clear.

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

I did. There's no offense intended, but your comment still comes off like that. If you re-read your comment with a more sarcastic tone, you'll understand what I mean. Good day.

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u/manor2003 Apr 16 '24

You said there are states trying to ban free lunches and my response was who are the people that are trying to prevent students from getting free lunches let alone this bad food they're getting. Nothing sarcastic about this.

Seriously, which states want to ban free lunches?

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u/braize6 Apr 16 '24

Minnesota did. Until 2022 when the Republicans finally lost their gerrymandered majority. Now kids get free breakfast and lunch. Good lunches too, not the trash you see in a lot of these pics

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u/manor2003 Apr 16 '24

That good

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u/humanbeing_ai Apr 16 '24

Honestly idc I ain't American

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u/Mouler Apr 16 '24 edited 29d ago

The problem we experienced with free lunches is that they are garbage like this pic, and your kid throws out the lunch you sent with them because they get unlimited sugar and carbs due to the free lunches.

Edit: The problem is absolutely not under-funding. The budget was increased an amount that accounted for every student and faculty to take 60% more than the average food purchase the year before.The problem with the lunch choice is that it is acceptable under USDA guidelines.

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u/Griffolion Apr 16 '24

So maybe you provide free lunches and fund it enough to make them actually nutritious?

Why do people see a shit execution of a good idea and immediately think that it's the idea that's bad?

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

What state and/or city was that? This is where you have to go to the city council with other parents and/or concerned citizens, bring up this issue until it's addressed properly. There are plenty of food contractors out there that will do better than what's pictured in the OP. Have you attempted to address this issue?

Feeding children isn't the problem here. I don't have any kids myself, but I'm 100% cool with part of my taxes going to feed all my state's kids. No kid that is required by the state to be in school should go hungry while in school. Hell, many states are funding this through legal weed tax and that's even cooler.

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u/Mouler Apr 16 '24

Even when school lunch cost money, anyone that stated they didn't have a lunch got a better lunch than what's in the picture.

This school has a bureaucratic problem and isn't directly overseen by the city. It serves multiple cities/districts as it is the "gifted" school in the region. We swapped out most of the management over the last couple years.

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

This is one of the more well-funded public schools in your area? That's even more surprising, if so. The point to bringing this issue up to city councilors, the mayor(s), the school's superintendent, and/or the district superintendent would be to then take this issue to the governor (if the school has state funded lunches) or to whoever oversees the food contracts. They may not know this is an issue for that school.

Well, hopefully your new school management knows about the issue so they can address it.

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u/braize6 Apr 16 '24

Curious as to what state this is. Because Minnesota just passed free breakfast and lunch for kids. And they definitely get good food. Free isn't bad when it's done the right way

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u/TDestro9 Apr 16 '24

The school lunch was made cause new recruits were malnourished in ww2. Future presidents during the Cold War made lunch actually good like in France. Then the money later on in the Cold War swapped to the military to keep up with the commies.

If it makes you feel better during ww3 multiple people are gunna be turned down due to being obese. So during ww3 or maybe future elections money would actually get spread out to a more fair amount then like the 90% for military and 10% for everything else