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no_hypocrisy

(53,614 posts) Wed Oct 29, 2025, 06:04 AM Wednesday

What will happen to the children depending on free breakfasts and lunches in [View all]

public schools when SNAP benefits aren't there on Monday?

I substitute teach in schools that are quasi-urban. I estimate about 60% of students depend upon the free meals that the public schools provide. Sure, I see about half of them throw away their meals and run to buy ice cream or chips for their lunches. But for many of them, that's their meal(s) for the day.

How can one teach when a good number of students are hungry? I'm talking more than low blood sugar.

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I think we still have free lunch in my district dsc Wednesday #1

I don't know about other states, but in Minnesota, those meals aren't funded by SNAP. WhiskeyGrinder Wednesday #2

Suffering is what will happen. Groundhawg Wednesday #3

Doesn't look like, at this point, that Cairycat Wednesday #4

Different pile of money...lunch money is title money to districts JT45242 Wednesday #5

The School District in my neighborhood has a "Lunch Heroes" program. HeartsCanHope Wednesday #6

Thanks no-hypocrisy. Prairie_Seagull Wednesday #7

Meals at school should be free for all students, faculty, and staff. PoindexterOglethorpe Wednesday #8

They are out of the womb, republicans don't care about them. republianmushroom Wednesday #9