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And then cower outside while children are shot
Well yes! We’ve invested so much in cops! Children are expendable; we have like no stake in them. Why should we care?
Just have more kids like the olden days. Only become emotionally attached after the danger years (0-18)
Often the suppliers for school lunches are the same that provide meals for prisons.
I hate to break it to you, but the federal government doesn’t even pay for school lunches. A school child is fortunate and privileged if they receive that slop.
It doesn’t say that these are federal, but yes
1033 program giving surplus military weapons, equipment, and vehicles was definitely federal.
LAPD look pretty similar.
As someone who isn’t from America, why don’t parents make lunch for their kids? I have seen school provided lunches in movies, but is it normal?
In America, there are a subset of children that live in such poverty that without the free school meal, they would go hungry. 2023 statistics suggest that 14% of children come from food insecure households. I honestly believe that government published statistic is an an underestimate. Children from food insecure households can qualify to get free lunches, which are subsidized by state and local government. The federal government also subsidizes school lunches through the National School Lunch Program The logic behind subsidizing lunch for these kids, is that hungry kids are distracted and won’t be able to learn as well. Children that come from families with means generally will be provided lunch by their parents, or their parents can afford to give their kids money to purchase the lunch served by the school cafeteria.
It is normal and mandated, but unfortunately is also underfunded and often low quality/small portions (for perspective, after including costs of labor and maintenance, schools have roughly $1.50 to work with at scale for each meal).
For parents who can afford it and (crucially) have the time to prepare lunch for their children, they do so. Growing up, I always enjoyed making my own lunch or bringing leftovers from last night :)
That’s not the case for many, many people though. The amount of children who count on the school meal as their only reliable source of nutrition each day is staggering. The meal program was expanded during Covid, but afterwards some conservative areas walked it back substantially in an attempt to “save costs for taxpayers”. It’s counterintuitive as all hell though, as my parents (who are/were teachers) would put it, “You can’t teach a hungry child”.
USA’s School System is a large number of decentralized districts funded by municipalities with some paltry state and federal funding. The public schools simply cannot afford to feed every child in most of them, so instead school lunches are offered on a meal plan that the parents can pay in advance if they can afford it. Many children simply wait to eat at home or go hungry.
That doesn’t change the fact that the US are spending ridiculous amounts of money on the police while neglecting everything else.
If you somehow interpreted my comment as a defence of the militarized police you’re completely mistaken.
This is a little misleading. It’s my understanding that the original decline in US school lunches owes its start to farm subsidies. It’s one of the reasons they over use corn-- including syrup-- since the government heavily subsidies it by buying surplus and processing it. Then it goes to the school (I think accurately to say sells to the schools but I’m not sure?)
Anyway, it’s partially true in that we’ve got only marginal improvements in school lunches since the feds and most state governments don’t give a shit about education or long term health. It’s easy to ignore since political office is short enough that you won’t ever get credit for significant gains you cause. Dems are the only ones who try since it’s more of an image thing, and only if enough people care (and they’ve got easier targets for that, unfortunately).
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
These are misappropriated funds of the people, that could be going towards improving their lives yet go towards defending the state from its people.
They need to donate the equipment they have to more dangerous jobs like pizza delivery drivers.
I wish memes stating “facts” like this would be required to include their source. Not saying it isn’t true, but what’s the point of spreading it if it can be so easily denied for lack of proof?
You can always just ask for a source.
- Police and sheriff’s patrol officers
Fatal injuries in 2016: 14.6 per 100,000 workers
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatal injuries in 2016: 24.7 per 100,000 workers
Not quite double but fairly close.
Maybe it ought to be the thin garbage line, since garbage collectors face even more danger and are even more essential to society being able to function.
“We don’t have money to pay teachers more”
“Yes racist untrained Ice agent who will probably get us sued, you can have a 50,000 bonus”
