Star Tribune: ‘School books are free. Why not lunch?’

The problem isn’t that schools are the bad guys.

The problem is that America, which doesn’t expect children to pay for textbooks before they can learn or chip in for gas before they can ride the school bus, has stuck schools with the job of collecting lunch money.

“The answer is not to continue to debate whether a cheese sandwich or a jelly sandwich meets the law,” Jessica Webster, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid told the Star Tribune. “The answer is to feed kids.”

[Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid is a member of the Hunger Free Schools coalition.]