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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is anecdotal, but I was a hungry kid who got free lunch. It took my mom a while to get her act together to submit the paperwork necessary for me to get the free lunch, so prior to that I would talk my friends into letting me use a “punch” on their meal card, and I’m also sad to admit that on days I couldn’t figure out where to get food, I would steal it when the lunch lady turned her back. I still feel really bad about that, but it is what it is- hungry kids make bad decisions, and I didn’t realize that if I had just asked for help, I might have gotten it.

Now I have a masters degree and a fancy job and a HHI of around $400k. [b]I think free lunch and breakfast helped me because it eliminated the constant scheming about how to get food.[/b] I could go to school, focus on academics, and get a lunch like a normal kid. I had to go in a bit early for the breakfast and getting it labeled me, to my embarrassment, as a kid in poverty because only the poorest qualified for free breakfast. But I am so grateful to all who support free lunch because I’m not sure where I would be without it. 
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That is a wonderful story, thank you for sharing.

The part that I bolded, that is psychology 101, Maslow's hierarchy of need. Children cannot focus on learning and growing as a person when they are worried about how to get food. 
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