Title says it all. Posted in r/teachers. I debated posted this here because I was thinking is this antiwork? And decided yes it is. Explanation below.
I have students who are- refugees, laid off due to Covid and can’t find work still, battling cancer, lost jobs for other reasons, both parents or a single parent working two or three jobs and still can’t make enough thus leaving older siblings alone to watch younger siblings, yet people call them losers. What should I do let the kids go hungry and kick them too so the learn their lesson. A school district in Wisconsin pulled this same shit stopping the free lunch program because they didn’t want the parents and kids to “get spoiled”. They actually resumed it after public backlash.
I am so sick if this idea that if you have food insecurities you are a loser or don’t work hard enough. Or any other type of money issues the default is you are a loser who doesn’t work hard enough or just wants a government handout. Besides calling people out on this BS – and I provided a link to the comment if you would like to do the same 😉 What are things I can be doing to enact some real change??