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[NEWS] Republican bill will reduce free school lunch
Trymos:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 24, 2017, 06:45:56 PM ---and if we're talking about finances your priority as a parent is your kids, if you can't pay for food each day it's time to start asking yourself what useless junk you are spending your money on
and it should go without saying that you should probably be financially prepared to raise a kid, too
the average cost to raise a child to adulthood is around $250,000, if you're not willing to commit that much money or you can't, then don't have kids, or make them contribute to the family's finances by working too
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welcome to the real loving world
anything and everything you develop you HAVE to assume that the targeted demographics are a bunch of blithering self serving asstards.
they WONT ask what useless junk they're spending their money on, nor will they even bother to find a way to get their children lunch, majority of the time in this situation they'll just let the child go without lunch.
they WONT double check if they're financially prepared, because people are naturally handicapped and don't think things through.
if you develop a system that depends on the honor system, even on something as important as their loving children, they WILL skimp on their children because "they dont have money and the government is taking it all" or some similar stuff. you wouldn't believe how many parents skimp on clothing for their children, you REALLY don't want to attempt something like paid lunches for them.
if you just call social services then everybody loses and you got many, MANY court cases that these parents will not stop pushing. everybody loses out on that solution.
PhantOS:
also worth mentioning that checking someone's extra financial decisions and luxuries as a school is unconstitutional. they can't say 'well you wasted this much money on netflix therefore your child wont get lunch' because they aren't legally allowed to see what you spend money on unless you directly tell them.
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on February 24, 2017, 06:49:45 PM ---I'm all for a campaign against wasted food, that would definitely save money and feed more people. Maybe instead they could package up wasted food and bring it to the local homeless shelter, then it's not entirely a waste.
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agreed
--- Quote from: PhantOS on February 24, 2017, 06:49:45 PM ---The point of free and reduced lunch is so children won't have to starve due to their parents bad financial decisions. This whole thing about 'its the parents fault that they're wasting money' sounds correct but the child should still receive free lunch, since punishing the child for their parents mistakes is cruel and idiotic.
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I'll admit I don't know exactly how to fix this, but there are millions of other solutions that could discourage that type of spending
--- Quote from: PhantOS on February 24, 2017, 06:49:45 PM ---Also keep in mind that in many states you're not allowed to work until 16, and children from 5-18 years old are eligible for free or reduced lunch. This means that your 'making kids contribute' aspect is also moot.
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you've never mowed neighbor's lawns or run a lemonade stand when you were a kid?
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 24, 2017, 06:57:27 PM ---you've never mowed neighbor's lawns or run a lemonade stand when you were a kid?
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lmao
we dont have lawns in new york, or the wood or sidewalk space to start a lemonade stand. either way, those kid capitalism jobs produce less than 5,000 a year if you were to operate it on a daily basis as a regular business. nobody mows a lawn 7 hours a day for an entire week, so it comes down to maybe a few hundred dollars here and there. Making an adolescent child pay for their own school lunch through measly side jobs is some pre-square deal teddy roosevelt-era stuff that only a corrupt CEO would think is a good idea.
kids shouldn't be forced to work just to feed themselves because their parents and school won't. that's horrible
Daswiruch:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 24, 2017, 06:57:27 PM ---you've never mowed neighbor's lawns or run a lemonade stand when you were a kid?
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i'm not phanto but i sure as hell haven't
i live in the middle of bumforget nowhere
my neighborhood consists of like 4 other houses that only have old people in them
no cars came around because it was the middle of bumforget nowhere
and i couldn't mow lawns because the old people already mowed their own lawns