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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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I'm gliding over a NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP near ATLANTA, Georgia!!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by theluggage on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:51PM (7 children)
A long time ago, the definition of "shame" was having a bunch of kids that you couldn't possibly afford.
...and that is the kid's fault how, exactly?
Civilised states/countries have free school meals programs for kids from poor families. Or, if you've got reason to believe that it's "won't pay" rather than "can't pay", go after the parents, screw up their credit record, have the payments deducted from their wages/welfare payments, set the child protection services on them... Don't take it out on the kids.
"Oliver Twist" wasn't an instruction manual.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:11PM (6 children)
Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy, and illegals are more than happy to exploit their children to stay affixed to the Free Shit™ teet. Like the Islamic savages steamrolling their way across Europe, they are taking advantage of your bleeding-hearts for as long as it suits them even though they can and do abandon their children when it is convenient for them.
A big part of this leverage is the insistence that kids must stay with their families. While this is true for citizens, we should let it be known that there will no longer be incentives for illegals to get free rides. Yes, it sucks for the children, but their parents made a deliberate choice to open their families up to the possibility that people will say, enough, and deport all illegals and change the laws regarding anchor-babies.
Some European countries far more civilized require that, to be considered citizens, children born in the country must have one or both parents as citizens. Unfortunately the EU leadership is replacing their civilized population with savage untermensch "refugees" as an end-run around those rules -- and this is why cheap labor doesn't necessarily make good labor...if they choose to "labor" at all rather than leech from the system, destroy property, rape, pillage, sell drugs, throw grenades, and drive trucks through people.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:45PM (3 children)
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door and bare forth my free shit teet!"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:13PM (2 children)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Monday April 10 2017, @02:36AM (1 child)
Being the greatest arseholes in the world is hardly anything to brag about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:24PM
Oh ho! You Brits better not spout off, you were the biggest nobs for a LONG while.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Monday April 10 2017, @05:50AM (1 child)
Warning: Offtopic
The american cowboys got the bomb, so they screwed up middle-east to their liking. The Islamic savages got the oil, so they can screw up the west. Insead of hating those Islamic savages, you should hate yourself for being so dependent on dictators.
There was never going to be a situation where this problem was magically disappearing. The west screwed up millions of human beings, caused death of millions, etc. to make sure it remains on top. Your problem is not the Islamic savages, your problem is that you are not on top in your country.
In many ways, western savages are the worst [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:49PM
Oh yeah, 100%. That is part of why we have such tension between the general categories of left / right. The liberals tend to acknowledge these problems, the conservatives tend to gloss over the problems and hop straight to "USA best country ever! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS killing everyone who gets in our way."
A good portion of the US is absolutely horrified at what we do but powerless to stop it. We are also so dependent on this power structure that stopping it would be near apocalypse levels for the US. Renewables should put a stop to the madness. Collectively the US is quite insane.