Because the "parents" are lazy, irresponsible, brain dead slugs and filling out one sheet of paper IS too much of a burden. I know people that work at a public school with a high percentage of so-called minority students and have to deal with the parents or guardians or whoever the little darlings are living with that week. These cretins fail to do even the most trivial, basic tasks for their charges, like filling out simple paper work, calling in to let the school know that the kid is absent, or showing up to pick up the kids on time. I tell you these people don't think like the rest of us and are of a culture so alien and different that they should be considered foreigners.
This story about the stigma of free lunches is pure hogwash and part of the propaganda to scam more money out of people that work and giving it to the kids of poeple that don't, otherwise known as Communism.
When you pay people to have children they wouldn’t otherwise have, you get unwanted children.
My grandson's school has a swipe card, he was purchasing what he was forbidden to eat. His Pediatrician, did NOT want him to gain weight as he was over weight to begin with, he packed on 15 lbs before the school sent the every 3 month charge slip home, and he got caught. Son did not take that to kindly and spoke to the principal, who promptly told him she could not stop him from doing so. Card got cancelled, he now takes a box lunch, with a no sugar drink, controlled calories Son is a type 2 diabetic, and that is how they eat, as he does the cooking 95% if the time.
If weight is held, then growth will make the weight change the doctor wants. He was to be held to no more than growth factor weight increase of 3-4 lbs per year!
TO me letting a child OVER EAT counter to their Pediatrician's advise is CHILD ABUSE on the School's part, yet the parent will get the blame.
My sister is retired from the public school system. She has told me stories about kids who come to school in dirty clothes, dirty themselves and unfed. The teachers and staff give them clean clothes and a shower before feeding them the first of three meals/days. They then wash the dirty clothes so they are ready the next day. So the question that needs to be asked is why would a young woman not have sex and by extension illgetimate kids if she don’t have to raise them?