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I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
“I immediately wondered if this was real.”
It’s watching the adults in the room — ordinary, decent people who’d never dream of snatching food from a child in any other context — perform this strange ceremony with the mechanical resignation of DMV employees, while around them life continues uninterrupted, because this is just How Things Are. It’s larger in that the entire structure of how we feed children at school is a tangle of federal programs, income thresholds, paperwork requirements, and local policies — all of which seemed designed to maximize shame and minimize actual nutrition. I still remember sitting in a meeting with actual policy analysts and education officials, feeling like a child who had wandered into the wrong classroom, while simultaneously realizing that I somehow knew more about certain aspects of the lunch debt situation than these lifelong professionals did.
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