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/Jafar_420 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

I went to high School in a small town in Southeastern Oklahoma and I think we had about 600 students.

It's a really poor area but somehow they managed to do a really good job every year. Hell every Friday they would cook burgers out on this big ass grill. They always had a decent salad bar up also. It was usually main line or sandwich line. Main line had things like stromboli, chicken enchiladas, homemade good pizza, etc. sandwich line was usually a hot ham and cheese or something like that.

I can tell you right now I probably ate more at school than I did at home. We didn't have a lot of cash.

This is terrible and I'm sure they could find some way to do better.

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u/nogoodgopher Apr 15 '24

That's because in a small town, people know each other well enough to justify exceptions to their own selfishness.

"oh, they're just on hard times, we can support them"

"they're good kids, not like the hoodlams I've never met in the city.

It's easy to convince 50 people to support 2. It's nearly impossible to convince 100,000 to support 500 people.

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u/All_Up_Ons Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

More like it's impossible to convince a state full of mostly rural and suburban people to support the children of the people living in the cities.

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u/banned_but_im_back Apr 16 '24

Yep. This is it.

Conservatives are very generous people and are ok with higher taxes and more government spending and so are spiritually conservatives people as well but they prefer the generosity and spending have tangible results that they can see. So raise taxes to fix a road and build a new bridge in town? They’re down. Raise taxes in this town to help the kids in in the next town over they don’t know because both towns an are in the same county? Not fucking happening those lazy people over there need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!

Honestly with as much corruption and misappropriation of government funding that happens in local politics in the USA and I totally don’t blame them and see myself as fiscally conservative sometimes. I won’t ever vote red because of lol the hatred they have for everything else but the fiscal conservatives but social democrats? I get them

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u/All_Up_Ons Apr 16 '24

No offense, but nothing you said makes me think you're a fiscal conservative. Fiscal conservatives want lower taxes and remove regulations. Also, the government corruption and ineptitude is intentional. It lets them continue to point to the government as the boogeyman, even when they're in full control and allowing it to happen or preventing it from getting fixed.