• breakingcups@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Think for a moment about the kids who don’t eat a school meal because it’s convenient but because they have to, for one reason or another. Now imagine stealing from their budget.

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      3 months ago

      Harvey is a very economically depressed area. There’s a good chance that if the school didn’t feed the kids during Covid, the kids would have gone hungry.

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      3 months ago

      It was the second paragraph.

      Vera Liddell, the food service director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago, stole the huge amount of fast food during the pandemic and its aftermath, when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning but who were still picking up school meals, local TV station WGN reported.