This is ridiculous thinking. With the technology they use in the school lunch programs now, the students just punch in a code at the “checkout” area. No one would have any idea who gets free lunches or who pays their own way.
I think the mayor is trying to just be sure lunch is universally “free”, which can never be turned back, and only heartless GOP candidates would ever threaten to try.
This policy is meant only to trap future dem voters, IMHO.
I was in the hospital, exhausted and drugged, after having a baby (c section). I happened to be all alone at the time she walked in. She was soft spoken and had a little clipboard and came to tell me how myself and my baby could get free food through WIC. She tried to sign me up right there. I kept trying to stop her. Even through my haze I was a conservative and I told her, I do not qualify. She insisted that I did. I did NOT. It was HARD SELL, me drugged and out of it, and her PUSHING HARD. I doubt many younger new moms would have been able to refuse her.