I sent my mother $25 every week for one reason: to cover my daughter’s school meals. But whenever I asked why Penelope’s lunch account was always empty, she simply shrugged and said, “She can eat crackers. Austin needs gas money for his job interviews.” I went completely still when my daughter finally admitted she had been getting by on half of her classmates’ sandwiches.
Part 1: The Taste of Crackers For an entire week, my nine year old daughter sat in a loud and echoing school cafeteria with nothing but the hollow ache of…
