Paulette Horton

My thoughts about the second reading were something that I can relate to. I’m currently in school and I have other family members who are in high school and middle school. Since education is key and cost, I felt people in poverty would struggle with education. In a section in the book on page 117, discusses the situation of cut backs and when I was in high school that’s when I first heard about cut backs. I felt like they were taking away programs that helped financially and programs that allows students to express themselves. “In a desperate attempt to save money, states also began cutting back the number of weeks in the school years, one unintended consequences of which was that hungry children, whose main meals came through free school breakfast and lunch programs, spent more each year hungry” (117). It’s interesting that the state would have to make their school systems cut back on programs that help students eat or cutting back on how much education a student should get.

A question that I would like to pose is, what was the argument against feeding student  everyday throughout the school year? The answer is “If you feed them three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves during the summer” (118).