Assumptions...

Caught the end of a news story about a school district somewhere which is feeding their students lunch mid-morning (10:30 ish).  The interview included a few administrators explaining that most of their kids are on the bus between 5:45 and 6:30 a.m and many might not have breakfast, so they decided this was a good thing to do.  Mostly, though, we heard the dissatisfied folks from the district, and then a spewing of condemnation from the talking heads on the news.

Now perhaps we could discuss why students need to be on a school bus at 5:45 in the morning, but here is the question I am left asking...

Do people really think the school administration and powers that be got together and said:

OK...I know how we can really screw up these children.  Let's force them to eat lunch at 10:30.  That will totally mess up their systems and their families and send everyone to therapy for the psychological damage and to physicians for the physical damage.  YES!  LET'S DO IT!!!

How do we live together, trusting that we are trying to do our best?  How do we deal with the few instances of people who shouldn't be trusted without refusing to trust everyone?  How do we learn to listen again to each other so we understand at the deepest levels what the other needs?  How does our faith fit into these questions, does it provide us a way forward or does it become yet another destructive force?

Answers would be welcomed!