Post AWtNGMpuOCaTK32CSe by badtux@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWtNGMpuOCaTK32CSe by badtux@mastodon.social
       2023-06-20T17:41:13Z
       
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       At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop #antichild #school #lunch #meanness
       
 (DIR) Post #AWtNGOYxyADug57hKa by badtux@mastodon.social
       2023-06-20T17:58:15Z
       
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       As just an example, after I left the school district I went to work for the company maintaining the district's enrollment/attendance records. One of the things I wrote was the software for matching the free lunch eligibility list sent to them by the Feds against the student enrollment and school lunch enrollment records. It was not simple software and we didn't give it away to the district. That software alone probably cost them enough to have fed 100 kids for a year. #gop #meanness