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Yes, but is that all you do? One meal a day does not solve the problems of an abused child.

• ninalanyon 2y ago
  That really is someone else's problem. The best the school can do is feed and support the child and report the abuse to the relevant authorities.
• acdha 2y ago
  You know, we say “don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good” a lot for technical problems but it’s far more critical here. A child from a failing home has a lot of problems and it often takes a long time to solve them, but we can for a trivial amount of money ensure that child isn’t malnourished because they get breakfast, lunch, and in many Title 1 schools, dinner. Many of the other problems of poverty, neglect, or abuse are much harder to solve – e.g. sending a child to foster care might be the solution for abuse but it’s slow and has plenty of risks of its own – but this one is easy and cheap to fix while we work on the hard problems.
• framapotari 2y ago
  Of course that is not all, how on earth did you get that impression? Doing something to address a problem doesn't imply that nothing else will be done and that this one thing is expected to solve the problem entirely. I didn't think this needed explaining.