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In reply to the discussion: Paul Ryan: Free School Lunch Means Poor Parents Don't Care About Kids [View all]riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Its not an either/or statement.
Plenty of kids both rich and poor both brown bag it and get cafeteria food. As a regular volunteer at 3 different schools, I can tell you there's no "shame" attached to only eating cafeteria food. Some kids actually prefer it (I know several personally) even though their parents can well afford to send them to school with lunch.
My sister told her kids they had to start packing their own lunches in 6th grade, that she would ensure they had all the "fixings" but it was time for them to start preparing their own or they could get the school lunch. Guess what? They BOTH stopped brown-bagging it and got school lunches from then on, every single day.
Ryan's an asshat and creating a fictional situation that's completely detached from reality.