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   webbureaucrat (webbureaucrat@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 12:16:41 JST webbureaucrat

   • Alex Schroeder

   @kensanata To be fair, applying for free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch is a one-page form for people who need it. It's just middle and upper class kids who have to remember to ask their parents for money.

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     RDS (shawphd on Twitter) (shawrd773@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 12:16:32 JST RDS (shawphd on Twitter)

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     • PJ Coffey
     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

     @webbureaucrat @Homebrewandhacking @stooovie Did you know it’s easier and cheaper to just feed all the kids? Means testing adds substantial administrative costs and is based in the idea that poverty is a moral weakness and that you can’t take care of people without making them first prove that they deserve it.

     Just feed the kids.

     Just feed them.

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     webbureaucrat (webbureaucrat@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 12:16:38 JST webbureaucrat

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     • PJ Coffey
     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

     @Homebrewandhacking @stooovie

     Reduced price is for kids with parents who could afford to pay a small amount. Kids who have parents who can't afford to pay receive free lunches.

     These are programs I know about because I benefited from them and I am happy to educate you, but if you're going to use caps with me then go fly a kite.

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     PJ Coffey (homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 12:16:39 JST PJ Coffey

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     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping
     • Alex Schroeder

     @stooovie @webbureaucrat @kensanata

     Also it ignores that reduced price =/= free and therefore excuses not feeding children who had the TEMERITY to choose poor parents.

     Hungry children don't learn, this isn't a debate.

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     Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping (stooovie@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 12:16:40 JST Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

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     • Alex Schroeder

     @webbureaucrat @kensanata that's... Somehow making it worse. Yet another piece in a ludicrous bureaucracy that subjugates people that the US became