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
Most American headline
Submitted 10 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This take can get fucked.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 10 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
A_Pile_of_Frog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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
hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You wanna eat?
You want to eat?
No more parents!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
cnn.com/…/pennsylvania-school-lunch-debt-trnd
Unless this is happening again, this story is from 2019. Still bad, just not recent
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s from 2019. The original article the bitly link went to is gone but it’s still on archive
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This sounds like a great way to generate a different headline,
“Local man kills 4 in attack of school board meeting after losing his children over school lunch debt”
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Who made this warning?
I need a name
Because that has nothing to do with debt, putting kids in foster care wound only cost the state even more money
That is only about unbridled power and control
Absolutely delusional
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also. The majority of long term homeless individuals are people that aged out of the foster care system. The moment they turn 18 they are out on their ass with only the clothing on their back and no life skills because foster care in America is little better than prison.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but kids in foster care are easy to abuse, so your tax dollars might be worth it for some.
shaggyb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed. Name and shame. Whatever fucker came up with this deserves to be ostracised.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
www.10tv.com/…/530-1952542e-0f2c-4b3a-b6f0-a32de5…
The Wyoming Valley West School District.
If you want the name of the person standing behind the letter,
Wyoming Valley West’s lawyer, Charles Coslett, said he did not consider the letters to be threatening.
“Hopefully, that gets their attention and it certainly did, didn’t it? I mean, if you think about it, you’re here this morning because some parents cried foul because he or she doesn’t want to pay a debt attributed to feeding their kids. How shameful,” Coslett told WYOU-TV.
I’m having a hard time confirming it, but it looks like an Irvin DeRemer was the super while this occurred, but was replaced in the 2025 election.
It’s also an empty threat,
Luzerne County’s manager and child welfare agency director have written the superintendent, insisting the district stop making what they call false claims.
Spitfire@pawb.social 10 months ago
Unfortunately nothing new. I remember as a kid that if you didn’t have money in your lunch account, your lunch was taken away and if you were lucky they’d have a peanut butter sandwich for you.
If you were in a negative balance, such as if your parents were unable to pay, then you’d also be restricted from certain activities and pressured to make your parents pay what was owed.
VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
not jealous of the Chadian infantry who are going to have to liberate Pennsylvania when the regime shatters
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Starve your kid or lose them. That’s quite a choice for a poor parent to make.
My late father grew up in an orphanage because my grandfather was too poor to care for 5 kids and a sick wife. My grandparents were able to take the kids home on Sundays though, so it wasn’t a situation where they yielded full custody. I’m not saying an orphanage was ideal, but it’s a shame that these days there is not the same kind of middle ground where kids can be cared for but still stay connected to their family. I guess that is too much of a social safety net for conservatives to tolerate.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Christ empowered his followers to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and tend to the sick. For some reason American Christians have decided that these explicit dictates should he ignored, much like the reminder that it is not their role to judge, so that they can instead focus on bigotry.
otterpop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every movement in history has hypocrites that follow it, and give the movement a bad name. Lumping “American Christians” together and then judging them based on the worst people who adopt that title is creating a straw man.
All American Christians that I know try and follow what you pointed out in your first sentence.
The statement on judging however is a bit misguided, Jesus didn’t say to never judge, but to be careful to avoid hypocrisy and to judge with love.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
At this point a substantial portion of self identified Christians in America are supporting some ideologies and programs that are the opposite if Christ’s teachings. It isn’t a small part. It might even be close to the majority.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Expecting Christianity to base their actions on Jesus is like expecting the Nestle corporation to base their actions on the Quik Bunny.
entwine413@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s pretty much the entire history of Christianity.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s really not.
The corrupt nature of the Church as an institution exists to take advantage of the naive humanitarianism of its fellowship.
People, by and large, do want to help their neighbors and provide for the young and the elderly. Modern prosperity gospel Christianity doesn’t change human nature, it only pollutes human prescription.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No, it isn’t. For most of history most Christians were taking care of those around them. It is with industrialism and Calvinism that we see people move away from this.
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Lunch debt? The fuck outta here with that dystopian nightmare shit
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
turtle@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Wait until you learn about “vanlords” in Los Angeles.
rayyy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s the first stop on the way to slave labor.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“You might be giving your kids a terrible childhood, so we’re going to ensure they have a terrible life starting in our first-class foster care system”
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And they have the nerve to ask why people aren’t having kids anymore