A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school’s meal debt

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1. “Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”

   “A lunch for an elementary schooler in the Blue Springs School District is $2.55 – with the reduced price being 40 cents for students in
   need, according to the district.

   Daken paid off the entire meal debt and then some, for his elementary school in Blue Springs, Missouri, after turning in a check for more than $7,300.

   Daken’s original goal was $3,500, which was just over the total of the school’s debt,

   according to Daken’s mother, Vanessa Kramer. The remaining amount was given to Blue Springs High School, another school in the district.

   While Daken’s fundraiser cleared his school’s meal debt, the Blue Springs School District meal debt totals to more than $235,000, according to Woolf. The district includes 20 schools at varying levels.

   In November 2023, the median reported district meal debt was about $5,495 among districts represented by members who responded to the survey, which was up from about $5,164 in the survey a year prior, according to the association.”

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   But hey….remember far right extremists republikans are eliminating ‘waste of money ‘ meals for children…..
   https://theintercept.com/2024/03/21/house-republicans-ban-universal-school-lunches/

   And $3,500 is enough to feed those children for a year….a year!………but..but…it’s wreaking the budget….taxpayers money belongs to the billionaires corporations…🧐