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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 NotSanguine on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:24PM
Yeah, there are some seriously fucked up people in the US.
Would the police in your town arrest you [cltampa.com] for feeding those with no home or money?
It's considered very poor form to be poor in this country. a moral failing, in fact. Because if you had moral character, you wouldn't be poor.
It has nothing to do with the lack of equality of opportunity. It has nothing to do with societal/structural issues which keep the poor from becoming billionaires.
In fact, poor people are just temporily disadvantaged millionaires. Anyone who isn't is clearly a worthless lump that should be sterilized before it can breed -- since the failings are clearly genetic.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr