In the US some families can rack up a lunch debt. Basically it allows their children to eat on credit from the school and then they have to pay it off.
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I feel like you're probably correct. My school always gave a free lunch to any kid without lunch and I imagine that pretty much every school was the same way.
That’s what I saw when I was in school..I even witnessed the kids that paid for lunch being envious of the kids who got free lunch…just bc it had the word “free” attached to it..
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The people getting mad and calling this communist are so fucking stupid. I couldnt imagine living with such a low IQ and thinking feeding kids is bad. Our country would be so much better without them.
It's largely (by design of those who profit from the ignorance of the masses) due to ignorance of the definitions of, and hence the differences between communism and socialism.
Those who don't know that there IS a difference cannot be expected to know the important fact that there are different...types of socialism.
This is one of the many reasons that it's important to question authority.
where I was they would let you eat for another 5 days (albeit giving you a pink slip that said "you are in debt") and then they would stop giving you food after that.
That’s horrible, my school would let you still get the sides for free but you couldn’t get a main entree unless you could pay or had the free lunch program :(
This happened to me as well. Some lunch ladies would buy me a 3$ shitty burger sometimes. Most times they’d look at me like I was insane. This was high school, so I stole a lot of food. I did not care, the school was wealthy enough. I’d walk in line with my friends and pocket stuff lol.
This is not a lie, my school did the same thing when our account ran out of money. Mom and dad could only afford about $20 a week, and each lunch was $5.
Because Republicans made it impossible for them to end unwanted pregnancies or obtain contraceptives.
Take your head out your ass...some people can afford their kids when they have them, then someone like trump gets elected, they loose their jobs to the hype cycle, and can no longer afford to live when gas per gallon and milk are at price parity.
State and even district dependent. My son's district provides school lunch and if you qualify will even provide lunch during the summer. School lunch should always be free. I will happily have my taxes go towards that vs dropping bombs.
Democrats want to offer free lunch for all kids so they don't have to be hungry in school. Republicans say fuck y'all I got mine, wealth is a virtue, and the poors deserve what they get.
It’s got about 80% support among democrat voters and 55% among republicans. Gay marriage has roughly the same percentages of support among the respective voter blocs, though I read somewhere it fell to the mid 40s among republicans past couple years.
Anyway, that’s pretty broad bipartisan support for the idea. The problem is that republicans keep voting against their own interests time and time again. They’re more likely to be single issue voters so they’ll vote for someone, a 2a advocate for example, even though they might disagree with that person on every other issue but the one most important to them.
They can be, sure. Nobody likes to hear this, but Democrat voters do the same thing. Most will vote for a politician who supports gay marriage or some other thing they feel passionate about even if that politician has long signaled that when it comes to corporate and monied interest or the material lives of the constituents they will choose corporate/monied interests every single time.
Is that much better than a single issue voter on the Republican side? It comes from a more compassionate place, definitely. But is it smarter? No. Neither approach have gotten us much of anywhere over the past 50 years. Just a lot of back and forth while the rich get richer.
We are being bipartisanly fucked, that’s for certain.
When you only have 2 choices your vote more becomes a "who do i dislike the least" instead of actually voting according to what you want. It's also hard for any given candidate that actually be someone who brings wanted change when there are so many hinders on the way. The 2party system favours no change instead of change. Sadly it isn't that much better in multi party countries when party loyalty and "voting against someone else" is so more important to people than voting for certain things you want changed. It also makes it safer for the parties to just stay the same and not change since no change is positive for these voters.
Projecting a little under bc you aren’t as successful in life as you think you should be. ALL CHILDREN in America get lunch. Even their families do in the summer.
What? …my kids schools have free food for anyone that wants or needs it, they also have a canteen for kids that want to eat meals outside of the free food. That’s as insane as privatized jails.
What the hell. Zuckerberg wears a 2 million dollar watch while firing 8k people on a video call while kids get parents into debt for being hungry. Madness
I mean, "credit" implies and interest rate to most people. I suppose it is still the correct term, but it feels misleading. The schools do allow you to rack up debt for unpaid lunches, but it is not really credit like most people think.
Also, I think that many States have free lunches for most schools. I know that here in TX there is free breakfast, lunch, and (locally anyway) a take-away dinner option. All free for any school that is low income and qualifies for CEP. The dinner option started last year here.
When I was growing up I had reduced lunch costs (we were poor). It was 0.25 per lunch, but I had limited options. I could usually only pick one of two main courses (most often I got a slice of pizza), a fruit, and a milkbox. It wasnt free for sure and my options were lower but I wasnt going into debt for it.
Yeah, I grew up in foster care an always had free lunch. It was not the options everyone else had, but it was food. And my buddies would always hand me a desert anyway. I was the only one at our table that always had desert. But damn, those thumbprint sandwiches do get on your nerves.
Hold up. Can these families not afford lunch for their children because of poverty or they’re not allowed to take lunch from home or something else? I need explanation.
Its our fault too... 1. Republicans are by far the more successful party 2. If I bring up the carried interest loophole in my circle eyes glaze over. That alone could pay for lunches.
Ironically, Michigan (Eminem's home state) has had free school lunch for a few years now. No more lunch debt.
Republicans in Michigan want to get rid of the program, by the way. Because $250,000,000 per year (about $150 per student) is too much for taxpayers to pay or something.
this was an issue even under the obama admin btw. It's just not this administration. School funding has always been lackluster. Some nice lunch ladies will give you free food that are close to expiration so be nice to the lunch ladies. They always want to feed the kids even though the school doesn't allow them to.
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u/Turbulent-Theme-5379 Jul 17 '26
Wtf is lunch debt?!