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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:37PM (9 children)
why doesn't your crowd approve of abortion and contraceptives, then?
Or is having sex for free without paying some escort, or getting a religous fucking license, also against your ethos?
Many people are forced to have children due to the laws republicans put into place; then they are punished for having them. People like you are of no help to the problem of big government where it should not have been to begin with, which causes problems like this which suddenly not a role for the government to deal with. If there is responsibility to be had, it should fall onto the shoulders of those that prevented the freedom of choice to begin with, and that they should be required to pay for the choices made for those that have the children they otherwise the 'poor and irresponsible' parents might not have opted to keep.
Yeah all kids and people are great or something that the republicans say, but they also try to destroy them as people at an early age, to get them to understand their place in a rich person's world.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:44PM (2 children)
You have no idea what my position is on that topic, and you're just trying to sink my position based on some other argument that you've both brought in from nowhere and also fabricated.
Try again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:19PM (1 child)
And yet you didn't actually deny that those are your positions.
You aren't fooling anyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:14PM
that's right -- it was a safe assumption to make. i dont know the position this person has on those other topics. but i didnt get my ideas from nowhere. i've seen it take place over and over to know what it looks like.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:38PM (5 children)
Please, show me the law that forces people to procreate.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:06PM
Please, show me the law that forces people to procreate.
It's called the power law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=961842 [ssrn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:07PM (3 children)
Please, show me the law that forces people to procreate.
Hello?
Its a law of nature. Procreation is the single defining principle of life.
There is literally no force greater in the human experience.
Someone who thinks defying the most fundamental biological drive is a plausible option for anything is so woefully out of touch with what it means to be alive that his own humanity is in doubt.
Skynet, is that you?
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
And I'm pretty sure the Republicans didn't write that law.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:40PM
You are right. They did not.
Instead the GOP passed the punitive laws that apply to people who are the result of procreation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:35PM
There is literally no force greater in the human experience.
Clearly you have never spent time with a woman who is addicted to Sex In The City. Now that is a force to be reckoned with.