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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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 4, Informative) by looorg on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:43PM (11 children)
Your government already does that. You have a Food and Drug administration. They already issue guidelines and recommendations on what to eat and how much for all ages, including children.
In this exact case it would probably be in your best long term interest, if they are going to be in school all day they have to eat. Either you pay for it with taxes or you send bills to their parents. But to take it out on the children just seems beyond stupid. How come you give free meals to prisoners but not to pupils? If anything you should reverse that so you give free food to children and the people in prison could pay for their meal out of the $0.x dollars they make per hour. But on some level you feed them to pacify them so they won't riot. You should do the same with the children - feed them so they can learn.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:48PM (10 children)
Yes, and they're doing a bang-up job [soylentnews.org].
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:57PM (9 children)
Clearly people don't follow the guidelines. Perhaps they need more education in School on proper nutrition, less PBJ-sandwiches and more veggies?
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:03PM (8 children)
What good are the guidelines when the same government that provides them allows you to buy Pepsi and potato chips w/ your EBT card?
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, @09:17PM (5 children)
then please curtail the lobbyests that keep demanding that this is allowed to happen.
nothing it not untouched by the taint of marketing and corporate forces. if there is a feed trough, the *pigs* will be there. but its not food, it's money.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:22PM (4 children)
Are you suggesting the government can't even follow their own advice? If what you've said is true, then why aren't Pepsi and potato chips part of the FDA's recommendations in the 1st place?
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, @09:31PM (3 children)
If what you've said is true, then why aren't Pepsi and potato chips part of the FDA's recommendations in the 1st place?
Stupid geek logic:
Everything in life is either 100% or 0%.
There is no in between.
And it never ever happens that something can be more than one thing at a time.
Oh yeah, systemic effects don't exist either. If its not explicit, it doesn't exist.
Stupid Food Justice Warriors!
(Score: 1, Redundant) by fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:52PM (2 children)
Stupid government logic:
Here's what you should be eating.
Here's some free money to buy food.
When we give you this free money we don't care whether you're following our recommendations.
That's it for me AC's, either post w/ your nic or piss off. Because I'm done feeding you.
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 Monday April 10 2017, @01:31AM (1 child)
That's it for me AC's, either post w/ your nic or piss off. Because I'm done feeding you.
Feeding us what?
Lines to make fun of you with?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:53AM
I think he may have flipped his top! Left to the tender mercies of the ACs! Can you imagine a worse fate? Almost as bad as being shamed for not having lunch money when you are just a child.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:28PM
What good are the guidelines when the same government that provides them allows you to buy Pepsi and potato chips w/ your EBT card?
It is a bullshit myth that SNAP recipients spend significantly more of their budget on soda and junk food than other families.
The difference is less than 5% [usda.gov] of their total spend (including cash combined with SNAP funds) and that does not account for the fact that non-SNAP households spend more in total on food, so a single $2 honeycrisp apple 'counts' as much as five 40-cent fuji apples, despite being 80% less actual food.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:23PM
There's nothing wrong with an EBT card buying Pepsi and chips for a kids birthday party. The problem is when people only eat Pepsi and chips. And, well, free choice and all...