Guest Rant: Seattle Can’t Afford Not to Feed Every Child

Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks.When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated poverty, I kept food in my classroom because I knew children living a few miles from the halls of power would come to school hungry. Years later, after moving back home to Seattle and teaching history at my alma mater, Garfield High School, I found myself doing the same thing. Sometimes students