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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Muleybuck" data-source="post: 499880" data-attributes="member: 8008"><p>Just so you know the facts, its been said on this forum that 37,000 ND kids get a free lunch now. In 2025 there were 116,365 K-12 enrollments. So approximately 30 percent are sign up for free lunch. Not all kids are getting free lunch. There are kids raising themselves because their parents are incapable of taking care of them so the paper work didn't get fill out. Kids being raised by grandparents that are on fix income whether it be SS or disability that don't qualify. Not all parents were afford the education to get a high or good paying job. Parents that are in debt because of daily medical cost but don't qualify for free lunch due to their income. And worse the kid that does want to be bullied or teased because he gets a free meal. It is my believe that it's not the low income families nor the bleeding hearts that are behind this measure. No, it's the people that are paying for their kids lunches now. People that have the means but want more in their pockets. Because they are saying if so & so kids get free lunch why not mine. I will not be voting for this measure because I believe that if anything it should be a line item in the budget not a constitution measure and reviewed every 2 years. Doesn't mean that if it were word different the next time I would vote for it either. Also for this forum to blame low income parents and poor kids for this ballot measure is sad, ridiculous and makes me sick. Comments like who is feeding the fat kid in the summer or I feed my kids so feed your own, or feeding your kid who does not have an income is squarely the parents responsibility, or not giving a child free lunch because of the nation childhood obesity rates are up, just goes to show just how messed up some of your are. Some of you have never gone to bed hunger nor to work with nothing in your lunch bucket. Not everyone is privileged or born with a silver spoon or afforded the opportunity to go to college or parents that just couldn't afford to do better. But you keep looking through your rose colored glasses and I can only hope that some day you'll need a helping hand, then some snobbish person reminds you just how cruel and cold this world can really be and tells you, "I can afford it why can't you."</p></blockquote><p></p>

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