The whole “there are starving children in Africa” just felt like ignoring local problems ngl.
Most nearby schools in US has kids that can’t afford lunch, a good chunk are even homeless too. There are starving children in your 2 mile area.
But mentioning them also raises the question of “why not campaign now and volunteer now and vote now to solve that issue.” So people rather mention the problems an ocean away as the adult version of procrastination.
Also for the record, average upper-class american family could help both groups at the same time by working as extra hard as most people do daily.
Yeah, so I taught at an an inner cityish school for a decade. We had grants for free breakfast lunch and dinner if they stayed for the free after school program.
That being said, 90% of this shit served goes directly in the trash. Kids don’t want grapes or apples, they don’t want a non fastfood hamburger or pizza, and they definitely don’t want any vegetables (I did have a few autistic kids that went ham on them) but 99/100 no.
It isn’t a “they don’t have access to food” problem. It’s a we’re not serving Takis, McDonald’s, and a Coke. And obviously they never will.
I know every school doesn’t have a grant like that, especially in red states, but I’d literally bet my life it wouldn’t be any more than marginally different across the country.
And before you say “make them eat”, yeah that’s a good fucking joke. Teachers are getting fired for not getting a 5 year olds pronouns right and other stupid ass shit. I got out a few years ago and tripled my salary. I loved my kids, parents are dip shits.
The whole “there are starving children in Africa” just felt like ignoring local problems ngl.
Most nearby schools in US has kids that can’t afford lunch, a good chunk are even homeless too. There are starving children in your 2 mile area.
But mentioning them also raises the question of “why not campaign now and volunteer now and vote now to solve that issue.” So people rather mention the problems an ocean away as the adult version of procrastination.
Also for the record, average upper-class american family could help both groups at the same time by working as extra hard as most people do daily.
Yeah, so I taught at an an inner cityish school for a decade. We had grants for free breakfast lunch and dinner if they stayed for the free after school program.
That being said, 90% of this shit served goes directly in the trash. Kids don’t want grapes or apples, they don’t want a non fastfood hamburger or pizza, and they definitely don’t want any vegetables (I did have a few autistic kids that went ham on them) but 99/100 no.
It isn’t a “they don’t have access to food” problem. It’s a we’re not serving Takis, McDonald’s, and a Coke. And obviously they never will.
I know every school doesn’t have a grant like that, especially in red states, but I’d literally bet my life it wouldn’t be any more than marginally different across the country.
And before you say “make them eat”, yeah that’s a good fucking joke. Teachers are getting fired for not getting a 5 year olds pronouns right and other stupid ass shit. I got out a few years ago and tripled my salary. I loved my kids, parents are dip shits.