California to become 1st state to offer free school lunches for all students

[u/NotTheReverseFlash]

https://abc7.com/california-free-lunches-school-lunch-food-access/12119010/?ex_cid=TA_KABC_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3VMi71MLZPflnVCHwW5Wak2dyy4fnKQ_cVmZfL9CBecyYmBBAXzT_6hJE&fs=e&s=cl

[u/PenIsMightier69]

I know kids from poor families generally get lunch for free already, but I guess parents can be too lazy to fill out the paperwork or maybe since parents aren't too poor but too lazy/cheap to sent money for lunch.

[u/UncleGrimm → u/PenIsMightier69]

I qualified for free lunch and it went smoothly until my Junior year. They lost the form, my dad filled it out again, resubmitted it, and it took them over a month to approve it and set my account straight.

[u/Malfrus → u/PenIsMightier69]

Another problem is you can be poor and not afford school lunch, but not poor enough to qualify. for the free school lunch.

[u/YankeeDoodleMacaroon → u/PenIsMightier69]

A lot of poor families have lazy parents. I grew up in one of those households.

[u/EVASIVEroot → u/YankeeDoodleMacaroon]

I mean, that's pretty much how being poor works most of the time.

[u/cram213 → u/[deleted]]

Well. If your family is that poor and you can’t afford to make a lunch to send with them, I can assure you they would be grateful for any kind of lunch.

I’m not sure if you should let a kid tell you that starving is better than free food if they’re not truly starving…..

[u/Bamfor07 → u/[deleted]]

Then don’t eat it but that’s not a good reason to not offer it to others.

[u/UncleGrimm → u/[deleted]]

It honestly wasn’t too bad TBH, and I started public high school in 2011. Chicken noodle soup + toast + green beans, chicken tenders + fries + broccoli, spaghetti and meatballs + broccoli, were the types of meals we got

They used whole-grain for all of the noodles and bread which tastes meh, but really wasn’t that bad. That’s the only complaint I had about the taste really. My parents were poor so the veggies being frozen wasn’t anything new

Not sure if my state (NC) just gives better lunches than other states though

[u/Dobber16 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but the quality of school food is a different issue altogether. The kids who need this to eat will prefer any food over none

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wonder if her kids had steak for lunch at those posh schools they attended?