These Kids Are Restoring Free School Meals For All Students
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- Kids across the U.S. have been organizing to win universal school meals and wipe out student lunch debt.
So far this year, Minnesota and New Mexico have passed universal school meals laws, joining California and Colorado. That’s just the start.
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"Hunger is a relative term," spoken like a true slime bag. Way to go! What a dystopian to have leaders like this.
>hunger is a relative term
I bet that mf hasn't gone without food for more than a day before.
Remember when you go to vote that both parties are NOT the same.
The Democrats are weak and ineffective, but they are also compassionate and patriotic in a healthy way; specifically, they actually CARE about the American people.
The Republicans are greedy and cruel, and they will always, ALWAYS put money before the good of the nation and its citizens.
Right - NOW they're all for relativism and nuance...
"Homelessness is a relative term. I woke up in my king-sized bed this morning, but I'm out of my house right now. Am I homeless?" That's the strength of his argument. How did he get his position of power?
"Hunger is a relative term." - Well, he isn't entirely wrong, just not in a good way. It is relative to the person's means. A person with wealth like him, has no relation with hunger. Another person, for example, raising kids while working minimum wage jobs is relatively familiar with hunger.
Trillion dollars spent on military is fine but free school meals for children are too much?... Come on
U.S.A 🇺🇲 Government Logic
But but but what about freedom ( *check notes* ) from terrorists
Truth=its Capitalist country so
Well they see you as a future slave 🥶
You gotta have a military to protect the kids you’re forcing to starve for no reason other than evil.
Then Republicans prey on these underperforming kids and recruit them to the military where they can slave away for the military industrial complex.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." -
Dom Helder Camara
Perfect.
Yep, although getting a little tired of hearing that quote every time a subject like this comes up but yes, sure.
Try something original next time but yeah I mean the spirit of it is appreciated
Now I gotta go see who that is..
Heard this in Leonard Nimoy's voice coz of Civilization IV.
@@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes This is the only communist propaganda approved by The Party. Sorry I can't say anything else.
it's disgusting how those politicians so comfortably spoke about letting children starve with a "not my problem." How come they're paid so well to sit on their useless asses and do nothing for the citizens they're meant to serve? Maybe they should be made to feel hunger for once in their lives so they can make decisions on issues they understand.
It gets worse when not much later they voted in favor of having their own meals compensated
Reminder these are the same politicians screaming save the children at radical rallies for there constituents
he ate a cereal bar for breakfast tho
They're Republicans. They are representing the interests of rich people.
And yet, the morons and imbeciles in the United States continue to vote 🗳 for these homicidal sociopaths.
Good school meals should be included in the school budget. These politicians that deny a child a meal or free meal are sickening.
GOOD food and not the process crap they dish out.
Each school in France has a working kitchen where food is cooked and not microwaved or defrosted. There are menus created by each school and overseen by a cafeteria department of the district.
Travel to see how much more intelligent and aware the average students are in other countries. Our kids are being badly educated and often mis-educated - being hungry makes it worse.
If you’re programming students to be “worker bees” for the elites, there’s no need for a proper meal nor a proper education. When one dies there’s another “uneducated” one with a “diploma” to replace them.
Wouldn’t want these children to get a “leg up” and actually succeed in life. Because you can’t have too many capable graduates who would see through the greed and hypocrisy of the “distorted entitlement” of these “legislators” - and then get rid of them.
@sharongillesp who are you arguing with you are preaching to the choir
@@sharongillesp Why do you think that is? America doesn't love its citizens, only what money they can squeeze from us. I'd suggest we all start advocating for change. Now, not tomorrow.
My dad was a drug addict and my mom, despite working, was always completely broke. I remember not eating lunch most days, dinner was often french toast sticks or hot dogs, and breakfast was rare. This is 100% a nutrition and education issue.
People are bringing children into the world and having no idea of healthy nutrition. Pretty much, if it's advertised on television, it's not healthy.
Alongside giving free lunches to students, give better more nutritious lunches. And if you complain that it reduces funding for schools, SCHOOLS SHOULDN'T RELY ON LUNCH MONEY
we spend a crap tone of money on schools, the problem is the administrators either pocket the money, spend it on something they can pocket, or red tap prevents the money from being useful
@@markfreeman4727 that's the rich schools. They get all that money. Then all the other schools get dog ass funding, even though they have more students.
A big way schools get funded is through property tax, and the schools in poor areas continue to stay poor, producing a feedback loop of bad education and poor people, largely minority groups. I agree that school expenditure is high, but the schools that get most of the funding is disproportionate to population.
I know in my school district, the money is definitely spread out better, but they're also underfunded.
yeah the amount of fries ive seen in those snippets from the lunch counter alone are a major red flag for the quality of the school meals...
give the kids some good stew... or chicken fricassé or any number or other proper meals... you know... with veggies in it instead of fast food deep fried everything
@@markfreeman4727 citation needed. last i checked especially schools in impoverished communities are MASSIVELY underfunded... you know...in the areas where people struggle to feed their families?
@@SharienGaming check the budget for education, its only gone up not down. Look at Jhon stossel for the info i'm referencing
Kids going hungry says a lot about our society. It's broken in so many ways.
This is wild. Things like potatoes, grains, chicken, corn are dirt cheap and are amazingly nourishing. Our Government pays major subsidies and that should be reflected in what our public schools pay to purchase those products to begin with. Beyond that, the concept that anyone young or old goes hungry for any reason in a country that pays farmers NOT to grow food is absolutely unconscionable.
And for every "Christian" that wants to talk about how we shouldn't just give away food, Jesus literally turned tiny amounts of food into a multitude to feed the hungry. It is a moral implication in a Christian society to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and help the helpless. Anything else is a dereliction of duty.
Totally agree.
For the life of me I'll never be able to understand how people can argue that feeding children is a negative and then look at themselves in the mirror.
It's the same people that are pro-birth. They don't care after you're born.
Because most of these children amount to nothing in society.
"Are kids going hungry the problem of the state?" YES. YES IT IS.
💯
The same people will insist it's your God-ordained duty to the state to let yourself get gunned down in the middle east so their Lockheed Martin stock prices rise
After all, they are in charge of taking care of THE PEOPLE’S NEEDS.
That’s the whole point of establishing a government. To take care OF the people.
A government FOR the people. A government that is created BY the people.
@@alohatigers1199 Well in theory. In practice nation states mostly ever do the bare minimum to make it appear as though they are interested in the will of the people while serving the owning class. Ⓐ
@@alohatigers1199The government is supposed to create conditions under which the people can reasonably sustain themselves, invest in the future, and the common good. Feeding children literally does all three.
They'll yell about trafficking but not starvation.
For me, it's totally ridiculous that public schools (and private, too) can't give free meals to all kids alike, regardless of their parents' economic status. In my country, lunches and breakfasts are totally free for the kids, although it has its disadvantages (some kids don't eat all their meals there, sometimes they have to close out because of water or energy issues in their areas, or close because they have spoiled food), but overall, it's fine. And balanced meals, too. USA calls itself the best and greatest country of them all, but it's a lie.
The US straight pitches 40% of it's usable calories. I'll take your problems over that purposeful waste. It's done to remove "unfresh" but still fine products and to decrease back stock in order to hide the glut and make food seem more rare and therefore expensive.
It's been a lie since its founding. This country started with a genocide and then was built by slaves. There are no "good old days" to go back to.
Closest thing we've had to "good old days" was the New Deal, and unsurprisingly, we got rid of all that.
Nothing will get better and nothing will stay better until we put political power in the hands of the people.
The politicians who oppose children having free lunch need to remember their paychecks are paid by us. They need to humble down, spend some time in the communties, and so on. Apparently, they are living in a different world than us.
But that money could be shoveled onto the piles of their donors' billions, or used to give themselves a raise.
Those same politicians vote to get their meals compensated for by the state; after collecting a generous salary.
How’s a governor supposed to afford a fifth yacht if little Timmy’s asking for a free lunch? Won’t somebody think of the slime balls?
@@princetchalla2441 Especially if it's the Timmy who has a wheelchair and can only say his name?
Truth=its Capitalist country so
Well they see you as a future slave 🥶
Kids are the future, and they know it.
They are. And that's why Republicans do NOT want them Voting. They want to push the Voting Age up. Why? Obvious. Because the Youth WILL be against Republicans.
Truth=its Capitalist country so
Well they see you as a future slave 🥶
The kids and adults who are fighting for universal school lunches are heroes. 🇺🇸💙🥗☮️
Truth=its Capitalist country so
Well they see you as a future slave 🥶
In high school I got 50c per day for lunch. My Best friend didnt have anything so I shared with her. We got 1 soda and a bag of fritoes everyday from 7th grade thru 9th grade! I am 62. My own kids, ALL the kids were on the free lunch program. Breakfast, if needed, was at a small fee.
Also, the need for more school lunch programs per capita differs by state. Which state did you grow up in?
Our children are expected to be in school over 6 - 7 hours a day , there SHOULD be free meals - nutrition - morning & noon !! And classes to grow food for these meals ! And participation in cooking education. And elected officials should be required to help tutor , participate in gym classes , & serve lunch meals to students K - 12th in their districts WEEKLY !!
The status quo reminds me of factory workers being treated as inmates and company towns charging rich sums out of commissaries. Does anyone who insists it's so good, just the way it is, have any idea what it was like back in the 1800s and early '900s?
These kids are gonna do great things with their lives. I can tell.
They already are.
Hope they can push more federal help. There are a lot of states getting left behind.
All republicans have to do is stop being abusive to kids and they can’t even do that.
"School lunch debt" "medical debt" "student loan debt"
We are a sick country.
Yep. Can't wait to get out of here! If nothing changes in the next decade, America can kiss my sweet ass.
Sad , we have to fight for lunch ? 🤡 All property taxes have to pay for school . Free breakfast and lunch for all 🇺🇸
Like the Black Panthers started?
Truth=its Capitalist country so
Well they see you as a future slave 🥶
We need universal basic income.
nah thats the capitalists solution to keep the system going as is instead of fundamentally reevaluating it. Maybe if workers were paid first their fair share for the value added they generate on behalf of their employers before the unproductive classes in the form of share holders and hedgefunds get theirs then these working families wouldn't be experiencing food insecurity. Begging from indifferent rich people to redistribute their wealth is exactly what they want to keep us forever under their thumb. What they don't want is workers being given a framework to operate in that makes the employer employee relationship much more even handed because that would actually give real power to the working class.
Gonna have to when that tech revolution REALLY hits....
Yes but not for this.
Universal basic income would make the servitude to the capitalist class easier since they can cut wages by a lot.
@@JohnT.4321 that would entirely depend on how it was administered. If we started by using a life time earnings cap and taxes started at 100% at it, and kept resources were taxes at 150% over it, and we used that revenue to fund UBI, we'd cornhole the oligarchs in perpetuity. A permanent middle class, and only a moderately more wealthy upper class has effectively redistributed the wealth. The scenario you're afraid of, and it's fair, would be a problem only if we refused to wealth reduce the top 20% and cap wealth cancer permanently. Right now, the top 1% don't grow anything, they metastasize wealth at the expense of the economic body... wealth cancer. They must healthy business and stifle innovation to horde, and legalized Pozo schemes like crypto, or stock futures serve to metastasize wealth because it's only on paper, no one materially benefits.
It’s super cool these kids did this, but I’m so mad it’s necessary. You shouldn’t be having to worry about where you or your friend’s lunches come from, especially as a child
In middle school I think I ate a grand total of 4 lunches in the school cafeteria, I didn't know how to ask about how it worked, I was frozen by the anxiety that I would mess something up even though I qualified for free/discounted student lunch...
P.S. means testing is a disgusting way to do things that actually costs more in the long run....
So proud of these kids. I wish I would’ve had their bravery. We all knew kids in school that would pretend to “not be hungry” at lunch, but obviously they just couldn’t afford to eat. If you were their friend, you’d slip them some food under the table. We never questioned why it was this way because school teaches us not to question authority.
Now I see my friends raising their kids to feel comfortable asking questions, asking WHY. It’s amazing. I hope this only grows with newer generations ❤
Now they are questioning me. I’m like, this is what I created!!!
Conservatives: “We care about children”
Children: “Give us food”
Conservatives: “You don’t look hungry?”
Every single thing that conservatives support contribute to the misery and proliferation of poverty. End abortion, end welfare, end social security and end affordable healthcare. People living in poverty are easier to exploit.
Conservatives : "WE SERVE CRUELTY RHAAAHH"
I KNOW, right?!! The guy says I ate a cereal bar for breakfast. I guess that means I’m hungry now. What a freaking idiot!!
Tbf, they might just be demons. Idk how any human with a soul could be a republican.
Also conservatives: we are pro life.
Infant and maternal mortality go up after repealing roe v wade.
Conservatives: let’s ban abortion even harder.
Brutal class war, attacking the most vulnerable but also most important
Universal peograms (no "means"testing) are often cheaper due to reduced administrative costs. But pragmatism is not a strong suit of most politicians. 😕
Additionally, the GOP has been working to destroy public education for decades. If most of the public is adequately educated & capable of actual critical thinking, very few people would support neo-liberal policies & fewer would vote for politicians who promote such policies.
^^^
All kids and teachers should eat free!
I have a few more questions for the legislator who boiled it down to an issue of personal responsibility. What does he want us to think he's seen parents doing exactly when they blow off individual responsibility? Even if the parents were failing, why punish the *child* by striking them with hunger over their next wave of classes? What does he expect children in their single digits and tweens to do to appease some loan shark who owns these children's debt?
They don't want to 'fess up to the truth. They're just sadists.
They want to keep the numbers of minority children in check by not feeding them. Sick folk.
They want the kids and teens to get jobs to pay for their own lunches, evidenced by the fact they are winding back child labour laws to make it easier for children to work.
Classic blaming the poor for being poor.
"if they couldnt afford kids they shouldn't have had them"
@@charanth182 At the same time, "if you can't afford kids, you still can't have an abortion if you don't want your child to live a life of poverty." - Conservatives.
That kid has a warm heart. Hold on to that young hero ❤
As a part of the school system, as a business manager who sees the books, I can confirm.
It might even be cheeper to just feed everyone, it is a small thing all in all.
Such well-spoken and smart kids! I am proud that they are fighting for such a noble cause 🔥
Nice but this obscures the real issue- that of counties not mandating that children have a right to EAT FOOD!!!
Public education should include FOOD all throughout the day. When you're on public school property you are an essence a temporary ward of the State and they have a moral obligation to provide for your safety and your mental and physical well-being. This includes FOOD!! (because most people like to eat at least once during the day)
FREE OF CHARGE BECAUSE IT'S *ALREADY* BEEN PAID FOR THROUGH TAXES.
Edit: and if they need more funds, modestly increase local taxes then allot them to the local schools. I mean, these solutions aren't hard. That local PD sure isn't running into any funding problems.
This stuff is the really heartwarming stories. It’s people standing up for systemic change
Even with how terrible the quality was I remember what a big difference it made when the high school I went to got free school lunches for all. No more kids having their tray taken away because there wasn't enough money in their account. Kids who really needed those meals and who theoretically qualified but whose parents wouldn't fill out the forms for any reason no longer had to miss out. There are a lot of improvements I hope have/will be made since I graduated years ago but it was a big step in the right direction.
Doesnt America want healthy soldiers?
I guess not
Alejandro Najera IS A REAL AMERICAN OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE FEEBLE but striving DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY before the 1960s assassinations and the Justice Lewis Powell memo and what it led.
I am so proud of this kid, so very proud. I have never done anything that politically astute, good, aware in my entire life.
God bless, Alejandro, could be you'll be running New Mexico in the near future.
Hope he does, he seems like the kind of kindhearted person we need more of in politics.
conservatives try not to act like cartoon villains challenge
(Impossible difficulty)
I got one meal a day (if I was lucky), there were 10 of us. It sure wasn't lunch. Feed the dang kids! I grew up with major health issues due to lack of nutrition. Pay now or pay way more later.
Just from a society self interest point of view, children who aren’t hungry are in a better position to learn. It’s not their fault so why are they being held accountable for something they can not act upon. The better educated, the more productive they can become which ultimately benefits society at large. Sort of self defeating in the long term to society at large to not feed them.
Exactly. We're trying to educate them, we'd better make sure they're fed.
The upper echelon of a capitalist society (ie, the status of many reps in our government) benefits from keeping the poor oppressed by limiting education and growth opportunities.
Many educated immigrants come to the US (from post-USSR, China, etc.), so why bother teaching their own kids, right?
@@Atemar98 That's what public school is for... All children in the US have the right to free education until they graduate highschool. Food is a part of said education(lunch and breakfast); therefore, *it should be free.*
@@whyplaypiano2844 have you heard about sarcasm?
Don't be stupid...FEED the KIDS...they are the Future.....if we are gonna have one..
How could a politician reject the idea of feeding children?
Imagine choosing to feel stigmatized "stigmatized" for something you don't have any control over.
Only in America.
There are too many "parent rights," not enough "student rights" and not enough student support.
This is amazing and needed everywhere. What kind of prosperous and privileged society, such as our own, allows its kids to go hungry? It's cruel and says a lot about what many people seem to value the more than anything, money and profits over all else. Not everything in this world should be commodified.
This was a formative moment for those kids. I hope the spark this lit in them never dies.
TAX the Rich Tax the Rich Tax the Rich Tax the Rich Tax the Rich 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
Yeah, and close all those loopholes they use to NOT pay them.
My wife is a school teacher, and she is regularly buying food to help those student in her class that are going hungry. This article doesn't address at all those families that are unable to fill out the proper forms, or even too ashamed to fill out the forms. These are the kids that are going hungry in her classroom and those that she tries to help. Republicans are to blame for this mess, make no mistake. It is up to you to vote them out.
This is what education funding is supposed to be doing. Not lining the pockets of business administrators and commercial food processors.
This is why we need decolonization, not more bourgeois politics.
Feeding hungry schoolchildren healthy, filling and nutritious meals is something I'm 1,000% okay with my tax dollars going towards.
Good on you, little man. Your heart is in the right place, and it shows. Much love and respect to you and your friends and family. I wish you the best. Here's to all the young future community leaders.
My dad forced me to cook and manage my own food. I did not have a lot of options in the lunch line in the first place due to my allergies and then later to being gluten free. These kids are heroes.
The content of school meals is a vital component of the whole process. Too many American children are over-fed but under-nourised
This hits home for me. At middle school I was given $5 a week for lunch. Lunch was $1.25. I had to skip at least one meal a week. Fortunately the cafeteria had a snack bar that sold 3 cheese sticks for $0.75 So I ate less healthy meals to accommodate my family's budget. It was no wonder that I graduated at 110 pounds while being 6 ft tall
Homeless and hungry and conservative Republicans in America, GOP RIP… my thoughts and prayers.
That young man is teaching me to have hope. Hero bell!
They shouldn't have to do this but it warms my heart to see this. Keep these optimistic stories coming. 💗
We need to get it together all kids should get free lunches in all schools and for universal free breakfast and lunch and after school program to feed them so they get at least three meals a day the third one is optional if their family traditionally has a meal together but timing parents having trouble getting things together can prevent them even if they have the money if the parents are busy so it should be part of the school system that way children are all properly fed no matter the means
Just thinking out loud here
If i was still in school, and had some politician taking away my only meal some days i would take it personally.
So although I couldn't do anything about it at this time you had better believe i would recommend it.
Then when I grew up and was allowed to vote i know which party i would vote for.
Those juniors are so articulate, wow. Kick those 'what is hunger' b-holes out and let these juniors in. People who 'debate' on what hunger is have no place in public office.
A rich country where its kids starve
There’s money for war but none to subsidize kids lunches
i cannot understand why school meals are even a topic of debate, as if there's another option. it's literally a basic need for survival.
Yup. By their logic "education" is relative and school shouldn't be free either.
Really, really sick this is put forth as a "good feeling" story rather than a dystopian horror.
Your work, Young Sir, makes my heart soar
These kids are inspiring. I hope that they grow up to be the leaders of their generation.
In college I did a research paper on the schools in my city.. 80% of children were under the poverty line.. so very poor city. (This was way before the pandemic)
Anyway, free breakfast was established in the city and many children got free lunch but the kind of food offered was terrible.
Very cheap over process (the breakfast was alot of frozen foods (though breakfast was better than lunch)
And kids still fought over leftovers because they're that hungry.
Barely any real fruit and lunch ladies warned me when to not eat the food.
As some was just not edible
(Its not enough to offer free lunch but to enforce that it's a healthy meal)
This is terrible. Maybe the state should assume responsibility of the children if the parents aren't providing adequate nutrition. It should be a crime to neglect your children in this way.
He was singing Mr Roger Neighborhood. Fred Rogers saved children’s programming on PBS with his testimony. This young man knows his history.
Washington State will never let this happen. Too many corporations have incomes of mass tax exemptions ... it's all up to taxpayers.
We give billions to the Pentagon (who cannot pass an audit) but deny universal free lunch to our greatest resource. That young man and his community are heroes.
When I watch videos of kids talking about important issues, I always think these kids are way smarter than I am. I was doing nothing of importance at their age. It fills me with hope to know that the future has smart and talented kids leading the way
its crazy, in my country lunch is free for every student, even for our right wing there will be backlash if they cut free lunch
Bread, Land, Peace, a pretty simple formula for a better society.
Alejandro is just a shining beacon of positivity and kindness. I bet it’s all the love in his mom’s breakfast burritos! He didn’t expect to meet the governor, but it would not surprise me at all if one day he becomes NM’s governor. It’s so obvious! There is no way we can spend too much on school age children in public school.
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"Hunger is a relative term", ugh. That is truly the least self-aware and most slimy/vile statement I've ever heard a politician make, and that's saying a lot.
This is incredible! I'm so happy to see these kids get the experience of actually making change around themselves!
Singing the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood song was wholesome.
Who pushed this through? Why the kid swaggin through the halls singing Mr. Rogers of course
lol was he singing mr roger's neighborhood, I honeslty didn't think kids would know that.
The reason we have failed and failing schools are because of issues like this. in reality the only solution to really get our schools to not only serve the educational felid but also the overall county including domestics which includes Infulatructure: We need to start new industries, private sector needs to invest huge gross into solid foundations that will also make kids feel like; Hey this is my count my county. I don't believe it's the public districts at fault I believe the federal government needs to increase federal treasury regulated by the district at the benefits of the counties: which will lead to said New industries we need. There a problems that are territorying Americans and first steps are getting hands on.
I still haven't figured out whether it has more to do with differences in local, state, and federal government, or the shareholder capture of our economic system and business sector.
Going to school hungry sucked. l didn't understand then and can't believe a child can be forced to attend school hungry still. People in jail get food.
Ongod
Say it with me:
A government is created BY the people, to take care OF the people. A government that is FOR the people. We, the people.
Interesting that poorer countries give children in school, especially elementary school, free meals. What is going on with the so-called "first world countries" who can't provide free meals in elementary schools to students?
Only in America do we allow children from poor and struggling families to go hungry. The land of billionaires can't (meaning won't) ensure everyone gets enough food to eat.
It's really sickening how providing food to our children is considered an optional expense.
Why is food in our culture considered luxury?? Something is very sick here.
What do you want to bet that local county jail just got an upgrade and the local county Police department AKA the Blue Nazi department just got an upgrade and expansion and some REALLY nice sweet bonuses??? Because Lord knows, no matter who else goes hungry in this country it's never the Pigs.
All of our Public schools should be providing breakfast and lunch to all students who want or need it. This should be commonly accepted practice. Not all students are fortunate enough to come from a home that's full of food.
This is the intentional persecuting of people who are low-income because the lawmakers and policymakers at all levels of government in this country are sadists and amoral savage good-for-nothings. They intentionally don't want to pay people enough to live in a dignified manner but then they want to blame people for not being able to afford basic expenses. This kind of barbarism is getting tiresome.
Why isn't food considered a required part of our children's education, one that the state has an obligation to provide??? No child who is innocent and who has no ability to change their circumstances in the K-12 system should ever be hungry.
Local government has no problem shoveling billions at the Blue Nazis, but our kids, especially those kids from a lower-income neighborhoods? Oh they don't matter. Fuck them.
It is socialist country this would never happen- this is NONSENSE.
Let's think of all the millions of tons of food that goes to waste in this country annually in the fields, from grocery stores and other places where food is sold and prepared, and from people's homes.
How about in every county, simply make a requirement that no store or any place that sells food is allowed to dispose of any unsold food unless it is visibly bad and any excess that doesn't get sold MUST be turned over to local food banks, who then can supply all local schools who ask for it with additional food supplies all year round?? A simple problem with a simple solution.
These problems have simple solutions, it's just that local policymakers are monsters and sadists who wants other people to suffer so they can feel superior. It's disgusting and I am sick of it.
Imagine a time when parents earn enough to provide for their children's lunch, or give them enough lunch money. No more administrative expenses for the school district.
I was lucky my parents earned enough to keep me in school, and kept me fed. My kids are lucky, I am able to earn enough to send them to college and keep them fed. I wish all kids are as lucky.
In France lunch is actually a cooking class. This helps "Preserve French Culture" (a conservative element) by teachit French cuisine and they teach other things like nutrition and how to prepare food for the entire class.
This is how we grow our society !
Imagine … a video being made in the USA explaining why kids are hungry, can’t get food at school and going into lunch debt.
We need to bring the guillotine to the USA just for local representatives to remind them that their responsibility is to SERVE … not chastise.
And let THEM feel the SHARP pangs of hunger.
*Gee, maybe Billionaire CorporateFascists who REFUSE to EXERCISE “PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY” to pay people wages in parity with Cost of Living, need to be held accountable for meeting their “PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY” to PAY TAXES commensurate with ALL of their Income & Profits.*
All school and food must be free for kids
As someone who grew up with poor lunches, I can fully agree that the School Lunch issue does not seek to actually feed children, and instead seeks to meet a status quo. The food they serve in schools are worse than actual fast food. I remember when my school had a new direction in pizza and decided to get Papa John's Pizza. That same pizza they ordered would be served for months on end (without re-ordering, might I add)
The food they provided was also scarce. I would get one slice of pizza, a cheese stick, and a McDonald's size bag of apple slices, and that's all I was allowed. As someone who grew up poor and only relied on School Lunches to eat, I find it unfair that we're mandated by federal law to spend over 13 years of my life to learn information I will never use (or relearn due to college), just to not get fed properly when it's my livelihood on the line
I'm 20 now, but my middle to high school years were rough due to the lack of effort our government puts into the school. And it's very heartbreaking, because from what I've seen it's usually not the school's fault
way to go guys!! its really refreshing to see young faces out there making a CHANGE for their community. 😊 super cool ^_^
Awesome! And nothing tastes as good or is as fresh as what you grow in a garden. And you get fresh air and sunshine too. Gardening brings us closer to the earth and her seasons. Even if you just have a fence you can grow something that climbs even from just a bucket of dirt. I've grown potatoes in piles of leaves using only pieces of potatoes.,😁 And do put some flowers in somewhere because we need the Bread and Roses.
When I was in school lunch was 35 cents less for disadvantaged. But with all the subsidy to schools. To agriculture ECT. Just feed everyone basic healthy neutrition .
It's wild how thoughtful and articulate these young people are while the leaders representing us are so flimsy of mind and morals.
That boy singing Mr Rogers theme song was the boost I needed today.
What I hear is:
Am I my brother’s keeper?
Republicans don't see minority children as their brothers. They think they shouldn't feed inner city families lest they grow too large.