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The kids who most need the free lunches are most likely to lose the ID. (and books, and pencils, and...)

by tropo 10y ago

toomuchtodo 10y ago
Lunches are so cheap (a little under $3/lunch [1]), we might as well just give them away for free to all school age children. For some of them, its the only real meal of the day they'll see. [1] https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrendsStats/#5 https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrend...
- rayiner 10y ago
  We should give them breakfast and dinner too.
  - Spivak 10y ago
    Sarcasm is difficult to convey over the text so I'm not sure if you're serious, but you should be if you aren't. Forget about morality, ethics, or any of that think of the children bullshit, paying the cost of about $2.50-$5/student/day is downright cheap for the returns we get down the line: from not having to pay to fix the medical problems they acquired as kids from malnourishment or shitty TV dinners, the welfare they wont be collecting because their grades are better, the reduction in crime, the increase in GDP, etc.. It's a really small thing, but it really does keep poor kids from getting stuck on the C student/underachiever track when their parent's get a break an don't have to worry about food. Source: This is one of the programs the local food bank I volunteer at does for poor families in the city.
    - rayiner 10y ago
      I'm absolutely serious.
    - ap3 10y ago
      Have you seen school food? I have been to my kids school during lunch - so much wasted food it's incredible. Please dom't waste more money on that. I can see myself voting for this only if I owned the local food company.
      - dctoedt 10y ago
        > so much wasted food it's incredible The incremental social ROI of feeding three meals is very likely to be far greater than the cost of wasted food. Or: Let's optimize for child-development outcomes and not for food usage.
  - flubert 10y ago
    Breakfast is already covered: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/school-breakfast-program-sbp http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/school-breakfast-program-sbp
Houshalter 10y ago
In my school everyone had to memorize a PIN number. How else do they know who gets free lunches or not?
- ams6110 10y ago
  When I was in school you paid cash or had a free lunch card. So it was very obvious who was on free lunch. My kids have used PIN numbers since they started school going back over 12 years.

The kids who most need the free lunches are most likely to lose the ID. (and books, and pencils, and...)

by tropo 10y ago

The kids who most need the free lunches are most likely to lose the ID. (and books, and pencils, and...)

Lunches are so cheap (a little under $3/lunch [1]), we might as well just give them away for free to all school age children. For some of them, its the only real meal of the day they'll see. [1] https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrendsStats/#5 https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrend...

rayiner 10y ago
We should give them breakfast and dinner too.
- Spivak 10y ago
  Sarcasm is difficult to convey over the text so I'm not sure if you're serious, but you should be if you aren't. Forget about morality, ethics, or any of that think of the children bullshit, paying the cost of about $2.50-$5/student/day is downright cheap for the returns we get down the line: from not having to pay to fix the medical problems they acquired as kids from malnourishment or shitty TV dinners, the welfare they wont be collecting because their grades are better, the reduction in crime, the increase in GDP, etc.. It's a really small thing, but it really does keep poor kids from getting stuck on the C student/underachiever track when their parent's get a break an don't have to worry about food. Source: This is one of the programs the local food bank I volunteer at does for poor families in the city.
  - rayiner 10y ago
    I'm absolutely serious.
  - ap3 10y ago
    Have you seen school food? I have been to my kids school during lunch - so much wasted food it's incredible. Please dom't waste more money on that. I can see myself voting for this only if I owned the local food company.
    - dctoedt 10y ago
      > so much wasted food it's incredible The incremental social ROI of feeding three meals is very likely to be far greater than the cost of wasted food. Or: Let's optimize for child-development outcomes and not for food usage.
- flubert 10y ago
  Breakfast is already covered: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/school-breakfast-program-sbp http://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/school-breakfast-program-sbp

Houshalter 10y ago

In my school everyone had to memorize a PIN number. How else do they know who gets free lunches or not?

ams6110 10y ago
When I was in school you paid cash or had a free lunch card. So it was very obvious who was on free lunch. My kids have used PIN numbers since they started school going back over 12 years.