Let’s make supper a more common word for the right reasons.
Hunger. Obesity. Poor learning. Single-parent households. Nutritional deficiencies. Fatherless homes. Food deserts. A 24-7 world. Food (in)security.
Those are but some of the reasons federal, state and local governments push school feeding programs, and federal policies are creeping into summer school and recreational play as well.
It is time to admit a critical repercussion of institutional feeding policies: They hurt children.
It is time to pull away from these programs that institutionalize children, and return them to their families for, well, family meal time.