cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20772471
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My wife has been a school kitchen manager for a number of years. Lunch debt is such bullshit. We funded free school meals for all students for a year during covid and it cost $10 billion. We could have funded school lunches for many years just with what we’ve sent to the Ukraine. We don’t have it because we have no way to influence the people we elect to do the things we value. It is clearly not something our elected representatives value.
While I’m definitely in favour of funding school lunches, and agree it should be trivial to find that in the budget, you need to understand that kids can’t eat the aging military equipment that’s being sent to help Ukraine defend themselves, crippling a hostile dictatorship with equipment that would otherwise mostly be scrapped.
Then the guy on the right stands outside the school while a shooter methodically murders all the students because he’s scared
Do they look like that though?
I wanna know how the schools I went to through various grades sucked shit in terms of facilities and teaching materials, but still managed to have decent meals for breakfast and lunch. I actually have been craving a few things I remember from school lunches the past few days…
Living in a deep blue state growing up, our food wasn’t half-bad. Might be because we don’t have an education system in America, we have 50 education systems.
It’s kinda even more than that for u guys, no? Isn’t the education system of a school decided by the school district?
Partially. States retain a lot of control over budget and education standards, but a lot of district-level decisions can end up influential with regards to the day-to-day functioning of a school. In my home state, though, for example, school lunches had to meet strict state guidelines, and the district had no say over that.
Its training kids when fall down the prison pipeline, especially if they live in a minority area
