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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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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:08PM (2 children)
Somalia is the result of a failed State, one ruled by a single-party government based on "scientific" socialism.
That culture of coercion failed; is it surprising that such a culture resulted in a bunch of warlords, which are just simple, explicit forms of government?
In short, the situation in Somalia has very little to do with freedom, libertarianism, capitalism etc., with one exception: A much freer environment for commerce actually gave way to huge gains in the quality of life for the local population, despite the coercion of warlord governments. That free trade has no produced so much more wealth, that it is becoming possible for another parasitic attempt to form a "national" government.
Try again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:21PM (1 child)
You are a teenager, ain't you? If so, then keep it up - I suppose we need your sorts, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:46PM
Actually I'm pretty sure this troll is TMB. Explains why he's soon butthurt all the time, people shit on his bad ideas and he's so upset he can't even admit it.