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Prop FF
November 9, 2022 at 9:14 pm
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It’s official, Colorado voters passed Prop FF to give ALL public school students the option to eat two free school meals daily, regardless of their family’s income. No more shame, worry, or stigma, because a child doesn’t have money to eat. It is funded by cutting tax breaks for the wealthy.
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RE: Prop FF
November 9, 2022 at 9:19 pm
Growing up, my sister and I were part of the program where we could eat for free due to the poverty in which we lived. It was only when I was older that the embarrassment of the situation hit me, having to use the meal card which signified my situation, while those who had money used it.
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RE: Prop FF
November 9, 2022 at 10:45 pm
(November 9, 2022 at 9:19 pm)Tomato Wrote: Growing up, my sister and I were part of the program where we could eat for free due to the poverty in which we lived. It was only when I was older that the embarrassment of the situation hit me, having to use the meal card which signified my situation, while those who had money used it.
It's that sense of entitlement that obviates the shame. Just so I'm clear, they did or did not use your card? I saw similar tactics when I was in school, except these programs did not exist, to my knowledge, and if they had, my dad would have forbad using them. Jocks picking up my lunch bag and remarking, "Their ain't enough in here to feed a bird!", to which I'd respond, "Well then, don't eat it!". Did I ever mention that I got in a lot of fights at school? I took no shit. Some of the chips in my teeth demonstrate this.
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RE: Prop FF
November 9, 2022 at 10:53 pm
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(November 9, 2022 at 10:45 pm)Fireball Wrote: Just so I'm clear, they did or did not use your card?
Do you mean did the lunch ladies accept the card? Of course they did. Never had a problem there or with my fellow classmates. I was never bullied or messed with in any way, despite being the loner, poor kid who wore hearing aids. If they ever talked about me behind my back, word never reached me in any way. Due to the lack of bullying experience, I kind of grew up in ignorance. Turns out I was just strangely lucky, because others around me were bullied. Even one older gay guy, whom I had a crush on, who got beat up in the locker room.
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RE: Prop FF
November 10, 2022 at 12:44 am
Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, explicitly advocated, 1) an end to child labor, and 2) a national income tax.
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RE: Prop FF
November 10, 2022 at 9:31 am
(November 9, 2022 at 10:53 pm)Tomato Wrote: (November 9, 2022 at 10:45 pm)Fireball Wrote: Just so I'm clear, they did or did not use your card?
Do you mean did the lunch ladies accept the card? Of course they did. Never had a problem there or with my fellow classmates. I was never bullied or messed with in any way, despite being the loner, poor kid who wore hearing aids. If they ever talked about me behind my back, word never reached me in any way. Due to the lack of bullying experience, I kind of grew up in ignorance. Turns out I was just strangely lucky, because others around me were bullied. Even one older gay guy, whom I had a crush on, who got beat up in the locker room.
I meant the rich kids using your card. I wasn't clear on that, I guess.
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