Who here got free or reduced price lunches in school?

[DCal430]

Seemed to me like 90%+ of the people in my Elementary school got free or reduced priced lunch, and over 50% in MS and HS got the same thing.

I had to pay full price for my lunches. How about the rest of you, did you get free lunch?


Op made the same thread a few months ago. Here.
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[Mixolydian]

Poll is missing "School lunch is/was disgusting, never ate that shit" option.

 

[Gillbot]

I did. I was poorer than poor.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

My mom loved me and made my lunch for me.

 

[Mixolydian]

My mom loved me and made my lunch for me.

Same.

 

[DCal430]

People who brought lunch from home should just put they paid for lunch.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

People who brought lunch from home should just put they paid for lunch.

No, people that make polls should better design them to meet the diverse demographics representative of the populations they are polling.

 

[Mixolydian]

People who brought lunch from home should just put they paid for lunch.

That wouldn't be accurate.

 

[Syndication]

I can't remember then... It was 41 years ago...

 

[Baked]

Free lunch from elementary to high school. Went through the entire public school system from elementary to college. All medical expenses free from elementary to college. All paid for by tax. America, fuck yeah.

 

[mnewsham]

We didn't qualify for free or reduced lunch, but i was never given money to buy lunch so i just didn't eat.

 

[SpunkyJones]

People who brought lunch from home should just put they paid for lunch.

That would be incorrect. We didn't qualify for free lunches, but conversely, we couldn't afford to buy lunch. I brown bagged it every day.

 

[SheHateMe]

I got reduced lunch all the way through HS. I only had to pay .40..which seemed to be about what the meals they were serving us were worth.

My mom made "too much" money for us to qualify free lunch but somehow we qualified for reduced lunch.

 

[jagec]

I got reduced lunch all the way through HS. I only had to pay .40..which seemed to be about what the meals they were serving us were worth.

This is true, but the taxpayer probably got billed $10 each.

 

[SheHateMe]

This is true, but the taxpayer probably got billed $10 each.

So? And now I am grown and paying taxes so somebody else's child can eat lunch too. I paid it forward.

 

[DCal430]

What is interesting is at my HS their was a special line for people who received free or reduced price lunches. So you could tell whose family was poor, since they got into the free lunch line.

 

[mnewsham]

What is interesting is at my HS their was a special line for people who received free or reduced price lunches. So you could tell whose family was poor, since they got into the free lunch line.

I went to what would politely be called a "diverse" high school, 55% Latino, 23% African American, 11% Asian, and about 9% white (with 2% being "other").

Pretty much 3/4 of the school were free or reduced lunch.

 

[SheHateMe]

There is nothing wrong with kids getting free or reduced lunch.

 

[DCal430]

There is nothing wrong with kids getting free or reduced lunch.

No, of course their isn't.

 

[Jimzz]

This is true, but the taxpayer probably got billed $10 each.

Ah no; they cost very little. Average was less than $3 a meal last time I looked.
Use to be they cooked a lot but cutting cost meant more and more processed foods. So less staff since all that was required was open a box and nuke it and less food kids ate.

Many districts are trying to squeeze it as best they can since many kids would not eat most of what was served. But cost keep rising.

 

[atotnine]

nope I had it good, my mom made my lunch.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Mom made such a good lunch I traded it for hot pockets.

 

[IronWing]

When/where I went to school everyone who chose to eat school lunch got at least a reduced price lunch. Some got free lunch. It was a middle class and working class town. For subsidized lunches there was no income requirement.

 

[Attic]

I ate the lunch ladies box for free.

 

[Lifted]

Half the kids i knew getting free or reduced lunch were dropped off and picked up at school each day by their mother, in a shinny newish benz or similar luxury car.

The system is (was?) broken.