You know what this tells me?
Nearly four in 10 Wisconsin elementary students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch last school year, and the proportion of low-income elementary students has climbed every year of this decade, according to state Department of Public Instruction data analyzed by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
The threshold to qualify is too low. You can’t seriously convince me that nearly 40% of Wisconsin families are too poor to pay for their kids’ lunch.