#school lunch debt

[macmanx]

No child should go hungry, no Human should go hungry, and school lunch debt is a crime against humanity.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Why do children have school lunch debt? Republicans are monsters and red states are hell on earth.

Free school lunches for all, NOW!

[sataniccapitalist]

[90smovieolderbrother]

nah cuz the term “school lunch debt” is evil. just feed kids. from preschool to a year after high school. kids should be able to eat at school every day. even weekends and breaks/holidays. even if they don’t live in that school district, they should still be able to get a meal at any school. how evil and disgraceful this country is.

[wausaupilot]

Wausau man raises $26K to pay off students’ school lunch debts

HE DID IT!!!!

By Rob Mentzer | Wisconsin Public Radio A Wausau-area pastor raised $26,000 in less than a week to pay off students’ school lunch debts in two central Wisconsin school districts. The Rev. Yauo Yang is an Iraq War veteran and the pastor for The Cross Church in Schofield. He launched a GoFundMe fundraiser on April 10 and publicized it with posts on social media. The goal was to raise $20,000, the…

[joe-england]

Let's talk about school lunches....

But they’re going to talk about stoves.

[axolotlofficial]

Anyway, children and teens comparing school to prison are observant, not "childish".

[reasonsforhope]

"Surrounded by school children, teachers, advocates and public officials, Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill into law Friday to provide breakfasts and lunches at no charge to students at participating schools. It makes Minnesota the fourth state in the country to do so. 

During the signing ceremony, Walz told Minnesota parents this will ease some of the stress on them. 

“If you’re looking for good news, this was certainly the place to be,” said Walz.  “I’m honored and I do think this is one piece of that puzzle in reducing both childhood poverty and hunger insecurity.” 

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan was also at the ceremony. She said this was the most important thing she’d ever worked on. 

The legislation is similar to a program that was introduced during the pandemic to provide meals for all students, but was discontinued at the end of last year.

It will cost the state of Minnesota close to $400 million in the first two years and grow in price in the future. It covers the cost of meals, but not of second helpings or of separate a la carte items.

Many — but not all — students in Minnesota qualify for free and reduced meals. That program is based on household income, and if families are below a certain threshold their students can receive school meals for free or for a reduced price...

But even with these measures, there are still families who do not qualify for free and reduced meals but who struggle to pay for food. In many districts this year, that has meant mounting school lunch debts in the tens of thousands of dollars because there are families who don’t qualify for free lunch programs but aren’t able to pay.

This bill would cover all school lunches and breakfasts, even if families don’t meet current federal USDA household income guidelines.

Darcy Stueber is the director of Nutrition Services for Mankato Area Public Schools and she’s also the Public Policy Chair of the Minnesota School Nutrition Association. 

Stueber says her district is seeing just over $80,000 in school lunch debt at this point in the year, so there is a definite need families in her area have for this. She says many of those struggling to pay are single-income households that work hard, don’t make enough to pay for meal programs, but make too much to qualify for free meals. Stueber says providing meals is just another basic necessity for learning...

For students in Mankato, Stueber says this will make a big difference in a more relaxed, communal cafeteria. Kids won’t need to worry they’re racking up debts when they eat lunch, she says. And Stueber pointed out that kids aren’t really able to learn well when they’re hungry. 

Students will start receiving school meals at no charge starting at the beginning of the next academic year, which starts in September for most schools."

-Minnesota Public Radio News via 3/17/23

[lycanthropdyke]

How does american school lunch debt work. Why does that exist

[whataburger-unofficial]

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYY

♥ BQ

Happy my birthday to you too! Free food if you have the app and have used it in the last year!

[tittyinfinity]

Did you know that in a lot of places in America, they won't let you graduate until you have your lunch debt/school fees paid off?

[giraffeonstrike]

According to a school board meeting I went to this evening, there are a thousand students in this district with a negative lunch balance and instead of talking about what we could do as a community to help...what they could do as administrators, they argued about how much debt was enough to DENY FOOD TO CHILDREN.

Pardon me for saying this but I feel like I have to: what in the actual shit ass fuck is that?

[rae-nee-dai]

my school got rid of free lunches because "covid is over" Today they announced that they would no longer provide people with a negative amount of $10+ lunches anymore. the lunches cost $4, 3 days and you wouldn't have enough. as someone who also cant afford lunches but rather refuses to eat, this is fucked up. there is no more "maybe if things are bad" backup plan, rather starve. yes this is teenagers but how do you look at a child and decide that they get to starve because they cant afford $20 a week

[wausaupilot]

Wausau-area man nears goal to erase local student lunch debt

A Wausau-area man is edging closer to his goal of paying off student debt for kids in the Wausau and D.C. Everest School District, through a crowdsourced fundraising effort.

Wausau Pilot & Review A Wausau-area man is edging closer to his goal of paying off student debt for kids in the Wausau and D.C. Everest School District, through a crowdsourced fundraising effort. Yauo Yang is a pastor who was born in a Thailand refugee camp and moved to Wausau in the 1980s with his family. The Wisconsin National Guard veteran has been active in serving the community for years.…

[galacticneighbor]

I was in SCHOOL LUNCH DEBT when I was a kid bc my parents were told to prioritize paying tithing to our church over feeding their children. No WAY was there ever going to be money to send us to college.