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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:12PM (2 children)
> You want to live on my dime, then you live by my rules!
And for contributing that single thin dime you get exactly one dime's worth of say in what those rules should be.
In other words, you've been outvoted.
Democracy, bitch!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:22PM (1 child)
One group telling another group what to do, under pain of violence for noncompliance.
Coercion is a barbaric, uncivilized, ancient system for organizing society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @12:57AM
Coercion is a barbaric, uncivilized, ancient system for organizing society.
What a stupid and uneducated thing to say! Consider the "Life of Brian", Dungeon Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EI7p2p1QJI [youtube.com]
Pertinent part of the dialogue:
"BEN: Now, take my case. They hung me up here five years ago. Every night, they take me down for twenty minutes, then they hang me up again, which I regard as very fair, in view of what I done, and, if nothing else, it's taught me to respect the Romans, and it's taught me... that you'll never get anywhere in this life, unless you're prepared to do a fair day's work for a fair day's pay! "