[rootusrootus]

> simply giving nutritious food to all kids

That's becoming more common. My school district just announced they have funding to give all students free breakfast and lunch for the next three years. They got that funding through the government (and I think it may have come all the way from the feds). We're not a low income district, so I assume that funding is easily available.

Even before then, it was mostly a "pay if you can" policy. The kids have accounts and they punch in their ID number when they go through the lunch line, but it would never refuse even if the account balance was negative. They'd ask parents to bring the balance positive, but it was never revealed at the student level that someone did not have adequate funds.

Slowly but surely we're trying to make sure students can focus on school. Hard to make everyone's home life ideal, but we do what we can. Hopefully this translates to their increased success in life and each successive generation will improve.

[SoftTalker]

When I was in school, if you didn't have funds to pay for lunch (and you weren't formally on the free lunch program) you got a white bread peanut butter sandwich instead of the hot lunch.

They don't do that anymore, but stuff like that was commonplace in the past.