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[-] thebrownhaze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, the government is wasteful and bureaucratic I agree. Is my solution anyone can have the free meals if they apply for it they're simple to apply for through the school.

That would immediately eliminate a huge number of unnecessary lunches to purchase. I would happily have been buying my kids their school lunches through their first three years of school, but that was not a choice offered to me.

When I went to school half the kids are on preschool dinners literally nobody cared.

Incidentally my family were dirt poor when I was a little but we weren't poor enough to qualify for free school lunches but we may do with sandwiches. Presuming the poor are incapable and requiring of constant charity is the soft bigotry of low expectation

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Presuming the poor are a monolith is problematic. There's also a huge difference between being broke and being broke in a poverty-defined culture. There are folks who are broke and still have a big view of the world, and folks who are broke and have a very narrow view of a very small world. That said, I don't understand the hostility to a hand out.

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