In your country, are free school meals offered to poorer pupils?

[Creoda]

No.

No such thing as a free lunch here.

Unless of course you're an Abo.

[calxpal]

I thought Canada doesn't have a free school lunch program like In the U.S? Correct me If I'm wrong.

I believe that's correct but I attended a US school for Elementary-High School, so I can't really comment on Canada accurately for this. But I'm curious now what Canada's policy is maybe I'll research it or ask my parents what their experience was.

[Salty Ears]

The first 4 years of school are free meals for all students. Then it depends on the status of the family, it concerns not only monetary income. If family members are, for example, some kind of preferential category. Often, instead of a free lunch, some places offer monetary compensation.

[Norrsken]

All schools here have free food for everyone except teachers in some cases

[capocannoniere]

Dunno, I'm assuming they probably offer free food in Argentina and Uruguay. Maybe on Lula's Brazil too.

Every public school offers state-funded meals for students of any social strata. Being public schools it will be mostly lower and lower-middle class. It started to be omnipresent with Lula but Bolsonaro did not stop.

More important than everything, it's actual food and not a snack. I don't know if they exist in Peru but comparing with Argentina, it's much like a "comedor universitario". It's good to see that at least one of the three daily meals are covered by
the State, especially when we pay the amount of taxes we do around here.

[Petalpusher]

Contrary to what you would expect, school meals are not free in France, eventhough the left tries to make it free and there are all sorts of financial help in some areas.


In people's mind anything becoming free is gonna turn into lower/bad quality. This is one of the country's funny dilemma, as on one hand socialists like to make everything free and this is a segragating element in schools, yet... you don't mess with food in France.

[coolfrenchguy]

not really free ,more some social assistance for the poor parents, a kind of social care

new yorker school canteen,normally they shouldn't starving to death

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Only families with an annual income equal to or less than ~3000 euros are entitled to free school meals. Keep in mind that such an income is not even poverty, but extreme poverty. The rest have to pay, but the amount is almost symbolic, between 0.70€ and 1.50€ for a full meal.

[Tooting Carmen]

Only families with an annual income equal to or less than ~3000 euros are entitled to free school meals.

Who on Earth earns such a low income in Portugal?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Who on Earth earns such a low income in Portugal?

Probably large families, where both parents are unemployed for example. Such families receive subsidies and support from the state certainly but it does not count towards their annual income (I am assuming, unsure).