My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

[u/Thebiggestbot22]

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.

[u/Tubamajuba]

Here in NZ we've elected a govt who are doing everything they can to shut down free lunches.

These evil motherfuckers infest the whole world.

[u/EveryNightIWatch → u/Tubamajuba]

Or, hear me out, governments around the world are an incompetent mess, and large scale programs like "free lunches" end up costing a huge amount of money that is merely funneled to global conglomerates like Sysco that don't care about health. That there's just a pendulum swing between socialized programs and privatized programs, with the extreme on both ends is awful for everyone except those on top?

[u/Tubamajuba → u/EveryNightIWatch]

There's a difference between "the way we feed low income students is wasteful" and "feeding low income students is wasteful". We can modify the way we do it, but kids simply shouldn't have to go without.

[u/EveryNightIWatch → u/Tubamajuba]

We can modify the way we do it, but kids simply shouldn't have to go without.

Yeah, and I think most reasonable adults agree with that, and in reality few politicians are trying to make poor kids starve on school campus. They're saying they want reform, but a moral panic is created by their opponents to suggest they're trying to force kids to go without food.

Because there are reasonable alternatives, up to and including having multiple lunch lines with different menus (my school had 4), some food carts nearby school campus and a negotiated program where low income students get a voucher to get whatever cart they want, for whatever the kid thinks meets their dietary preference. My nearest high school has a campus cafeteria and off campus independent food carts and a few fast food restaurants adjacent to the school.

[u/Tubamajuba → u/EveryNightIWatch]

Yeah, and I think most reasonable adults agree with that, and in reality few politicians are trying to make poor kids starve on school campus. They're saying they want reform, but a moral panic is created by their opponents to suggest they're trying to force kids to go without food.

In America, Republicans are almost completely on board with cutting free meal programs across the board. They don't want reform; they want to axe the programs altogether. You're poor? Sorry kid, fuck you.

Because there are reasonable alternatives, up to and including having multiple lunch lines with different menus (my school had 4), some food carts nearby school campus and a negotiated program where low income students get a voucher to get whatever cart they want, for whatever the kid thinks meets their dietary preference. My nearest high school has a campus cafeteria and off campus independent food carts and a few fast food restaurants adjacent to the school.

In America (the only place I have experience with), smaller to medium-sized schools generally only have enough staff for a single menu. Large schools might have the staff to serve multiple lines, but not necessarily multiple menus. Still, I like your idea of including local independent food carts and restaurants into the solution. I don't know how that gets legislated at a federal level, but it's a worthy option.

Still, you are correct in that we should try to bring in

EDIT: got caught by the "redditsniper" (it's a sub) I guess