I usually don’t like tooting my own horn, but I’m speaking as someone with 18 years of experience in the financial aspects of school food service. I was one of those middle-management bean counters working for large districts around the Northeast. It is the job of people like me to not only research possible grants and funding sources and ensure the district is getting the maximum benefit, but also to ensure that those benefits are used to their fullest potential to deliver meals to students. We are used to having to deal with fluctuations in what funding we receive and are expected to be able to plan accordingly. If we of all people are the ones saying there’s a problem, there’s a fucking problem. Like 9.5 on the Richter scale type of problem.
There’s a problem.
This will absolutely wreck school food service in many schools. Even before Trump ever set foot in the White House, school food service was often the red-headed stepchild of many school districts that operated on shoestring budgets and were almost always the first to get cuts whenever the school district needed to tighten its belt. These food aid programs in many districts were the only things keeping these programs anything resembling solvent in the first place. I cannot emphasize enough how reliant that our NSLP programs are on this funding.
At least right now, schools are still required to continue serving lunch under federal law. Of course, I’m sure that this will be rectified once Trump realizes that the NSLP exists and decides to cut that too because the program is using food grown in Canada to feed gay kids or something. What this is going to lead to is that NSLP programs are going to be cut to federally required minimums. And without these grants to pay for it, other school services will have to be cut. Teachers will have to be laid off. Other programs will have to be cut in order to pay for school food service. All of this and students will end up receiving less nutritious meals than they received before anyway. Again, that’s until Trump realizes the program even exists and just shuts it down entirely.
You know how we occasionally see those articles about students carrying huge lunch debts at school? Think that, except worse. And everywhere.
Trans people exist.
GOP: We need to save the children from woke brainwashing!
Children go hungry during school.
GOP: Have you tried getting a job you little freeloaders?
MAGA will say this was an example of government “waste and corruption”.
“Thank Obama”
Donald: some of you may die. But that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
How long will we let this factual supervillain trounce our lives and lives all over the world?
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
- Lincoln, 1838
What did people do to get Frankenstein’s monster out of that tower in the old movies? It’s on it tip of my tongue…
Ironic considering how the book is about acceptance and how humanity can be found in unlikely places. The real question we should be asking is what happened to Dr Frankenstein? How was he prohibited from creating even more monsters to shun?
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Those kids need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
Also, anyone else remember when Michelle Obama was being accused of all kinds of things when she was suggesting kids eat healthy meals and exercise?
“Let them eat plastic straws!”
“Very tasty, very nutritious! High in fiber, especially the paper wrapper. It’s the best food!”
