Survey time!

[feuervogel]

Anent my previous post, I thought of a simple, one-question survey. The individual responses are only viewable to me, so the whole world won't be able to see the results.

Poll #10111

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 21

I qualified for free or reduced price lunches when I was in school.

Yes, from K-12
3 (14.3%)

Yes, for some portion of time
1 (4.8%)

No
12 (57.1%)

I'm not from the US
5 (23.8%)

Comments

[anthimeria]

This actually is interestingly related to an ongoing conversation a friend and I have: that public schools in the US are IN NO WAY created equal.

If the wealthy white suburban public school I went to had HAD free or reduced-price lunches (which they did not), I probably would've qualified for some portion of the time. As it was, the class barrier was whether or not you had to bring your lunch from home, because if you did, you couldn't afford the school lunches.

[feuervogel]

That's fascinating, because the free/reduced lunch is a federal program. The people who count things quantify poverty within a school district by how many students qualify for free/reduced lunch.