I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.
I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.