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He was a 13-year-old cut-up in a middle school class I once taught who couldn’t wait for the standardized test day administrators in his high poverty district dreaded. It wasn’t the exam slog that made him euphoric, it was the snacks given out before the tests began.
Like so many of his impoverished peers, he came to school hungry. I think of him now as millions of other hungry children and adults in Ohio will soon see their government food assistance terminated or cut substantially this fall under the Republican megabill enacted by Congress in July…