Comment by chasd00 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by chasd00 | Hacker News Reader

DISD ( Dallas Independent School District ) has had free lunch for as long as i can remember. Free breakfast too. On school holidays you can still goto school and get a meal. I want to say they do this on weekends too. Granted, MREs from an Army surplus store are better than school lunch but it is free. I don't think my kids have ever eaten a school lunch.

During COVID my wife and I got a EBT (food stamps) card in the mail from the school district with like $2,000 on it for food. It was basically the dollars spent on school lunch for the time the kids were not in school.

    > I don't think my kids have ever eaten a school lunch.

I am confused why it was important to include this sentence in your post. Overall: Excellent. This sentence: Not required. Is this a flex?

It's just a way to indirectly say that the school food was not awesome.

funny thing, i actually thought about that sentence a lot. I added it in after writing the rest of the post because i felt bad implying I subject my kids to school food. I wasn't intending that as a "flex" but just that the food is really bad. On the other hand, i understand not all families have that option so maybe it is a flex in an unintended way.

You may not have intended it as a "flex", but you are teaching your children to be snooty. If they have "never" eaten a school lunch, they have judged the lunches based on appearance rather than substance/flavor. I wonder how you have judged the school lunches to be lesser than MREs, perhaps you tried the lunches before your children.

Wow that's amazing. I'm glad to hear they're doing it at least somewhat right somewhere.

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