Marking the kids who won't be able to eat? How very Josef Mengele of them. Welcome to the new Confederacy.
@TwiHusband Yes, but this article is from 2016. Here's the full article.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2016/06/gardendale_elementary_student.html
@TwiHusband I still remember having to walk to the front of the class to get the “special” lunch tickets. It made try to avoid getting food whenever possible. I cannot believe this is a thing in 2023.
There's an easy alternative. Use local taxes to pay for the school lunches and make them free to all students. Everybody gets a solid meal (which is the point). Nobody gets discriminated against.
But then maybe the discrimination *is* the real point, not the nutrition.
@DavidSalo No. Cruelty is the point.
@TwiHusband We would have qualified for free lunches when I was in school, but my mom refused to apply because they would have needed her yearly income (which was the most personal thing you could ask) and because she remembered the kids who got free lunches were served on a different tray from everyone else which marked all of them as poor. So she scraped up lunch money until we were old enough to get jobs and pay for our own.
@cjcrew My elementary school drafted upper classes to "cashier" during lunch. I HATED that job. Having to tell some kid he or she couldn't have their fucking lunch because they didn't have enough money.
@TwiHusband That would be a horrible job. I don’t even like telling some adult they don’t have enough to buy their beer or cigarettes. I can even imagine the toll that job would have on a child.
@TwiHusband 🤬 🤬 I'd like to talk to the school and also company that makes $$ on those stamps,