OOOOOOOOOOOOOOKAY.
Debate. Not comment time. Sorry, but you all are throwing out a lot of ideas with no practical application.
According to the
Department of Education, kids who are eligible for free or reduced lunch prices number just under 50 million. This applies to families at
1.8% or below the poverty line, that is, for a family of four, an income of $39,220 a year.
Without doing to much math, it should be obvious that if you're making 39k a year, and splitting it between four family members, you probably don't have the kind of spare time it takes, or resources needed, to make yourself a decent lunch. These children eat free lunch and breakfast out of necessity, not choice.
Now, given that the option of making a healthy lunch is out, and given that school cafeterias obviously don't make a profit if they're giving away around fifty million free meals a day, what do we do?
These children, who have no way to change the situation on their own, will grow up to become drains on the economy as they suffer heart attacks and diabetes, and other serious illness. As frivolous as this debate sounds, it has dire real-life consequences.