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I mean the second poster isn’t wrong. Public schools in America are badly underfunded outside of select suburbs that lean more white. And I say select suburbs because I remember living in the US and even some of the whiter districts had iffy funding. The white and rich districts had the top public schools.
Yes but right now the worst public schools are still where the kids can depend on for possibly their sole meal of the day, socialization, donated goods, free life enriching activities, daycare when parents are working, respite from abusive environments, etc. even if all of these are sub par. This completely collapsing would be manifold worse than it still running on fumes.
Public schools have fired lunch room workers for giving kids with outstanding lunch bills food. What you're referencing is exactly as frogmanfromlake said it is - some schools do that , many already do not.
It's not that that doesn't occur, but currently it occurs in a small portion of the many school districts in America and the prominent coverage of these is due to the outrageousness of it happening anywhere at all. When that becomes actually widespread the picture is unfathomably worse than it is now.
Currently 8 out of 50 states provide free school lunches.
Universally yeah, but nearly all states still have a subsidy that guarantees breakfast and/or lunch to the poorest students.