#feedthekids Take a look at this map before you spout off about school lunches. All kids deserve fo

[riversedge]

Lots of Southern areas--Red states using free/reduced school lunches.




#feedthekids Take a look at this map before you spout off about school lunches. All kids deserve food. Quit villainizing 'inner city' & look

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[lapucelle]

1. People also need to stop villainizing poverty.

These are somebody's kids. There is no guarantee that that it won't be yours or mine some day.

[riversedge]

2. Well said.

[lapucelle]

8. When I was getting my teacher's license, I read hundreds of pages

and dozens of books. I sat through hours of lectures by esteemed experts, but in the end I learned the most important lesson from the simple title of a book by an educator who works with marginalized populations: "Other People's Children".

That kid at the lunch table is somebody's precious child. Treat him or her with the same compassion, acceptance, openness, and kindness as you would want others to treat your own.

http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-65-issue-3/herbooknote/other-people-s-children_293

[Deb]

3. Thanks This includes kids that help with barn chores before school

Wtf is wrong here?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I'm inclined to think that free lunches

should simply be part of the public schools. Kind of like electricity and running water.

[Luciferous]

5. I live in MS and we are one of the few families that don't qualify in our school. There is a LOT of

poverty and we live in one of the best areas in the state.

[msongs]

6. the "food" in question is not that high quality. perhaps we could follow the french model nt

[Warpy]

7. Compare the racial makeup with the school lunch eligibility

Both maps are at http://www.zipdatamaps.com/ It explains a lot about who resents the program and why.