Bastard communists.
What the hell does lunch - AND BREAKFAST AND DINNER - have to do with education?
This is completely out of scope.
Stop trying to do everything, you craven commies!
Folks on the free-shit plantation need 3 square meals a day
Utterly lacking in meaning for anything more than Chat, and even that is being charitable.
You are way off the reservation lately. You want to go the way of Kaslin, keep it up.
What are families spending the SNAP money on WE taxpayers are giving them?
I really have a hard time thinking this needs to be universal when it was being applied to private schools as well.
My wife and I shrugged when our parish school told us lunch was free all year because “COVID”.
I mean forget the fact that we were spending 5 figures on school, we needed free lunches from the county.
However, I would pass the school early in the afternoon and there was a masked gaggle of people dutifully handing out lunches to the waiting queue of "needy" parents in late-model cars who, by the looks of them, missed few meals themselves.
Mind you, I am not against helping people who are unable to help themselves, but it pi$$es me off when I see tax dollars going to people who are able to take care of themselves but don't. Where I live the 2020 median household income, pre-Bidenflation, was over $75K! Were there really that many people who need "taxpayer-funded" lunches for their kids? I guess people figure if someone else is going to foot the bill to feed their kids, they can use their money to but necessities like cigarettes, tattoos and liquor.
I am 60, and I am old enough to remember when parents - even the ones who were poor - had too much pride to take a handout and didn't want their kids to be stigmatized. Now, with the touchy-feely leftist scum running everything, they've removed that stigma. Wouldn't want to offend anyone now, would we? I guess those of us who work for a living and provide for our own families are just suckers.
Schooling is best done at home.
Free lunches were used to force all sorts of other rules on the schools. Comply or we will take away those free lunches. School boards and local officials cannot understand that when you take money for a program you would not have wanted in the first place you then become beholden to the DOE for all sorts of other things that always cost the schools far more than they would have spent on the free lunches if they had financed them locally. Local pols simply cannot turn down free money. They cannot connect all the accompanying expenses that are costs on the schools with the offending wedge of “free lunches.” Nothing is so short sighted as a local pol seeing “free money.”.
The only way we can return our schols to education is o somehow get the federal government totally out of education. Callifornia and probably NY and the northeast coast sates would still be insane but the rest of the country could start educating its children again.
Maybe those on food stamps can start spending stamps to feed their own kids.
Ok. . .so the law providing this ‘free lunch’ expired in June . . .
Who was President, and which party controlled both houses ??
We have a surplus of food in this country and one can easily find cheap or free food, especially if they cook themselves.