A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school's meal debt
A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school's meal debt
Kids can now eat without breaking the piggy bank – at least, at Thomas Ultican Elementary School – thanks to fifth grader Daken Kramer.
How about instead of asking for donations, the money is just collected through taxes? What a ceazy idea!
Using taxes to pay for things? Crazy!
I want my taxes to go to burying brown child under rubble in Palestine! (ever conservative ever)
And steal this child's opportunity for gumption? The media's opportunity to placate us with a heart warming story? Deprive us this chance to be outrage?
Taxes steal all of this from us!
How in the hell is he going to obtain his own bootstraps if you're paying for everything with our taxes?!?!?
Let them get jobs in the mine! I've been working there since I was eleven and I turned out just fine!!
Excuse me - I need to go move my lifted ram 2500 before the repo man finds it.
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Is the child/family going to do that?
Why is Lemmy like this?
Obviously we all agree the programs should be changed, but this kid/family can't do that themselves. Instead, they've found a way to provide direct action, via community support, which is a core anarchist leftist trope, and should be commended.
It's not a critique of the child. It IS a critique of the system. No one is saying what he did was bad, or that he shouldn't have done it. They're saying HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. It's like the heartwarming stories of Americans funding their medical care through go-fund-me. It's horrifying to any sensible person.
Anarchist and Libertarians can care for each other. If there ever was a more clearer justification for actual taxes and government. It's where it's things that would increase access to freedom. Like not having to beg to survive, come into the conversation.
”Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”
In case anyone had any doubts that the cruelty is the point. Stratify children based on their socioeconomic status at the earliest possible opportunity.
In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.”
If they’re required to be there by law it’s inhumane to charge them money for food.
Careful now, this is part of the thinking that people [backwardly] use to proselytize for more charter schools, homeschooling, the dissolution of the Department of Education, and a host of other stupid ideas.
They'll see this and say, "yeah, they shouldn't even be required to go to school! so they have to earn a wholesome Christofascist education" or some other nonsense.
Nevertheless, I agree. Food should be a right for everyone.
I’m fine with private schools competing with public services as long as:
- They receive zero public funding
- They require the same (or higher) standards as public education
- Public education spending is not reduced
Education, infrastructure, healthcare, military protection, and mails services are some of the core services taxpayers should be most happy to invest tax dollars in. These services should feel like we’re getting a great deal for our investment. If anyone wants to spend more on private sector businesses, that’s up to them. But not there’s no need to sabotage the publicly funded services.
Ah yes, another fucking horror story painting a stark picture of the in-progress collapse of our society being dressed up as a happy happy feel good story.
This is what a degeneracy looks like!
Imagine kids having debt for eating, teaches little shits proper about their station in life before they even start! win win win!
Strong conservative values!
Honesty surprised the school didn't refuse the money. It's happened before.
In Iowa the governor refused free no strings attached federal money to help pay for underprivileged kids' lunches. Her reason? "There's an obesity epidemic".
Republican states read like an actual onion article.
Hence "not the onion" subreddit and Lemmy instance
Orphan crushing machine
Goes brrrrr
It's fucking Missouri, so I'm sure the warrant for his arrest will be issued shortly. Those idiots have to have a law against paying for others school lunch debt.
The New American Dream.
An affordable meal?
An affordable _________
Crowdfunding campaigns like this are a great way for white communities to avoid the consequences of laws that were mostly designed to emiserate non-white americans.
Why do you make this a white vs not white issue.
Atlanta is full of black millionaires and their school children still go hungry.
Why do you make this a white vs not white issue?
Because that's what the intention is.
Republicans (post civil rights, Dixiecrats before that) specifically target non-white communities with laws designed to hurt them. They can't be as explicit about it as they once were, so they have to find proxy targets. Instead of just jailing blacks, we'll over-enforce drug laws in certain communities. Instead of saying we're trying to starve black families, we'll use 'welfare mothers' as a proxy. The goal is still the same as it was for all of US history - to win votes from whites by promising to take from non-whites. School vouchers. Stop and frisk. Zero tolerance approaches. Gang enforcement units.
But using proxies instead of specifically targeting leads to some collateral emiseration. Luckily, white communities have vastly more intergenerational and communal wealth, so those crafting the laws know that white communities will be more resilient to the kind of damage they intend to inflict.
not a problem with whites, it's a problem with the rich.
Crowdfunding success is heavily racialized. It strongly favours people with more wealth in their extended community or identity group. Poverty is incredibly racialized in the US, especially at the communal rather than individual level.
I certainly agree that rich people enjoy watching all the poors suffer, but here in the US there's still a large demographic beyond just the rich that feel safer when black and brown people are disproportionately targeted for misery.
How sweet. They gave him a nice little certificate
id do this and pay for everyone's debt except for my bully. fuck you Jason.