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What is “lunch shaming?” It happens when a child can’t pay a school lunch bill.
In Alabama, a child short on funds was stamped on the arm with “I Need Lunch Money.” In some schools, children are forced to clean cafeteria tables in front of their peers to pay the debt. Other schools require cafeteria workers to take a child’s hot food and throw it in the trash if he doesn’t have the money to pay for it.
In what its supporters say is the first such legislation in the country, New Mexico has outlawed shaming children whose parents are behind on school lunch payments.
Source: The New York Times
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(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday April 10 2017, @08:06PM (1 child)
Yeah, that's what everyone wants. Free stuff from nowhere. And if you don't think too hard about it, your friend Trump will be glad to tell you how he's going to give it to you.
It's thinking like this that lead to our current situation: tax cut after tax cut for the already wealthy, while politicians get to whine and moan about welfare being too expensive while never actually getting off their asses to do anything about it.
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(Score: 2) by migz on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:02AM
I never said anything about free stuff from nowhere. I just said taxpayers should not pay for things. Tax is not a willing contribution. Start an NGO that provides school lunches, and I would gladly contribute. However my effective 65% tax makes me feel fairly stingy ATM. And nobody at any of my (government) schools ever received free lunches from the government nor anyone else.