Not college and above, but high school and below. Should there be free lunch for kids that are in high school and below? In America, a family can voluntarily opt out of the program, but there is a very minimum threshold in which a child can receive a free lunch. (iirc I think if the family was right below the poverty line, can someone correct me on this?) For me, I would say yes. In America, we spend more money building machines of war and spending it on defenses that still have holes in it even if we throw more money at it. If we put the US budget on a pie chart, defense has an extremely high amount of money going towards it. It is in the top three of where the money goes for the budget, health and social security being the top. However, if we looked at the remaining money, the US spends [url=http://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go]approximately the same amount of money that the Defense gets[/url] on benefits for veterans and elderly, infrastructure, education, science and medicine, and domestic security COMBINED. I seriously see a problem here if science and education are funded so low while defense spending is much higher. Other developed countries spend more money on their education and its subfactors rather than defense (e.g. [url=http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget_pie_chart]UK: 12% goes to education, 6% Defense.[/url]) To get back on to topic, should lunches be free for kids in school? I'll also add, where does education rank to you? For me, it's at least in the top 5. Defense is in the middle, maybe number 8 or 9. And to others in different countries: Does your country give kids free lunch (At a high school level and below)? If it does, do you want it to remain that way?