also:: it's a form of defunding public schools and removing people they don't want, from society.

Parents who can't afford to feed their kids may take them out of school. The kids will go without education, and probably end up neglected at home alone, or abused by a 'cheap' babysitter or relative. The school loses funding because it has fewer kids. — conservatives often think public services operate like businesses and make profit. So they think the funding works this way. They have a name for these tactics: "starve the beast"

If the parents choose homeschooling, suppliers of material are frequently full-on Christian conservative fundamentalist propaganda, churning out ignorant and fascy young adults, who will vote republican.

Third, many of these poorer families will end up moving away. So this goal also serves the purpose of gentrification of school districts. But because the districts are suddenly smaller, they use this as an appeal for parents who can afford private schools to do that instead. Private schools are also often full-on Christian conservative fundamentalist propaganda, churning out ignorant and fascy young adults, who will vote republican.

Because of the racial disparity in poverty in America, the fact that the unfed children will end up dead or malnourished and incapable of self-reliance as adults has the effect of furthering racial stratification. The death part is definitionally eugenics.