Of course it doesn't make sense because it's a government run program. Just look at what a great job they've done in all the other areas they manage. Just wait till all the healthcare regulations kick in. What I'd like to know is why are kids allowed to live in homes that don't provide any food for them? Isn't that child neglect? Yet over and over we hear that's the only meal these children will eat for the day. Most of these who get the free lunch also get food stamps. School lunches are really a double charge to tax payers. Why is it my mother was able to get up and pack lunches for all of us in the morning? I continued this tradition for my own children until we pulled them out of the prison system disguised as a public school. You'll never solve this problem until you get the big dogs out of the picture and restore schools to a local level. Governments waste that's what they do best.
Oh yeah....because healthcare works just peachy the way it is now....
And there are a lot of kids on free and reduced lunch whose families do not get food stamps. Especially reduced lunch. I knew a lot of kids in my high school whose families did not qualify for food stamps but qualified for reduced lunch. It depends on the situation and the qualifications in my district for free/reduced were different than for food stamps.
If I was in school still, we'd qualify for reduced lunch because of our current situation (involves medical bills....hmmm) but we would not qualify for food stamps because my dad still makes too much. It's not so black and white.
You might want to know what you are talking about before you say it.