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I feel like pointing out a 6 year old edge case, where the school was rightly screeched at by just about everyone saying this is insane, followed up by an immediate apology, and funding to provide food to everyone is both a poor example of propaganda as well as a pretty decent case for safety kicking in at some point.
Sounds like the school was pretty poor and just made a bad and desperate decision to try and get more parents to pay.
That doesn't feed the narrative, though :/
What narrative exactly are you accusing people of feeding? The Narrative that school lunch debt is bad? You don't like that narrative?
Its always the .world users I swear.
In this case it excludes that this was an isolated district, the policy was rapidly corrected after this became public, and it's a story from over half a decade ago. It also leaves out how this was universally objected to, and it misrepresents the actual contents of the letter:
which was pointedly that if you cant feed your kid, you may have to prove you can safely care for them. A shit situation yes, but it was not "pay your lunch debt or we'll take your kid away".
Yeah, this headline being reposted is pushing a narrative. And man you know what, in my experience the people that dismiss other users because of their instance are generally the problem. Othering people is pretty much always bad.
They don't want to understand 🤣
Asking 'what narrative' on a late stage capital post isn't in good faith. They are trolling you.
You know, you make a good point. Thank you!