Performing Well in School Is Hard Enough; Try Attending While Hungry

Performing Well in School Is Hard Enough; Try Attending While Hungry

By Noah Santoyo

A few miles away from Highland Park, the wealthiest town in Texas, students come home hungry every day. They open the fridge to find only a few slices of bread and a half-empty carton of milk. In the shadow of mansions and luxury cars, children are struggling to find food to eat.

One hundred thousand of the roughly 140,000 students in Dallas ISD face some form of food insecurity daily. I was one of them.

I believe that all low-income families should have assistance, so they are not food insecure. Now that benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have been jeopardized, the reality of food insecurity cannot be ignored.

Food insecurity describes a household’s inability to provide enou