• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How exactly does the federal government get data on school demographics when the schools are run by individual states? Or should they just throw out money randomly and hope it’s enough?

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      1 year ago

      The federal government builds the infrastructure and systems for the schools to use so they can share this data. As it is the states need to all build their own to share this data with the federal government in order to get the funds for these meals.

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        1 year ago

        Why would the states accept the federal government doing such a thing? Isn’t that the federal government encroaching on their rights when it comes to deciding how education should be run in their states?

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          Why would they do it? To help the children. The federal government already runs many services that the states use.

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                The government of Missouri doesn’t care about children, which is one of many reasons why they would tell the federal government to fuck off if they tried that. What reality do you live in?

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                  I feel like you’re not getting it for some reason.

                  The federal government should be on the ones running this, not state government. Missouri wouldn’t get a say.

                  The Missouri government would not object to the federal government paying for school lunches for kids if it was all handled for them. If you think that the government there just “hates children” then I’m going to assume that it’s a republican state and you’re a democrat voter, correct?

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                    The Missouri government would not object to the federal government paying for school lunches for kids if it was all handled for them.

                    Again- how would the federal government get the demographics data without Missouri playing a part? Either Missouri agrees to do that, or the government comes in and takes its own demographics, which Missouri would tell them to go fuck off if they tried. You’re on an Australian instance, so I’m thinking you just might be out of your element here.