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untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I think school lunch should cost something, but very little, just so the kids can understand the value of money
like a dollar per lunch isnt that much at all
but it shouldn’t place a large financial strain on poor families
You know, fuck you.
Now that we have that out of the way: Kids can learn the value of money without going hungry. Let them work in the garden or pick up a weekend job, let them buy something they really want for themselves and boom, they learn about it. but don’t deny them fucking food because they can’t pay for it.
everyone has at least a dollar
and if they don’t then have the lunch be further subsidized
but the cost should be just above $0
If you’re just going to assign an arbitrary token amount to charge for the food then how will that teach the kids the value of money? And since the kids themselves wouldn’t be the ones actually paying for the meal it’s still a disconnected symbolic gesture unlikely to impart any lifelong lessons. You’re going to be spending more effort and potentially money in tracking and enforcing payments for the meals than what you’re going to recoup by (under)charging for them. How about, since everyone is already paying taxes toward education, we just allocate some of those funds to providing food for every student/child if they are actually intended to be the future productive members and leaders of society?
I would think a better method to teach the value of money is to explain the economies of scale and couple that with showing how much planning and work goes into providing and preparing the “free” meals so they aren’t taken for granted as just being manna from heaven.
just allocate some of those funds to providing food for every student
yeah 90%+ of the cost would be covered and the rest would be small enough that it wouldnt place a financial burden on anyone
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This take can get fucked.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m not sure you understand that anyone can afford to pay a small enough sum for food
the point isn’t that the money will cover the cost
if lunch costs less than a dollar every single kid will be able to pay that and if they don’t their teacher could easily provide because of how small a sum of money that is
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, austerity politics are fucked.