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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-soup-for-you dept.

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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:33PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:33PM (#491301) Journal

    Do you have any idea what kind of a festering hellhole of abuse, deprivation, and sex trafficking the foster system is? If you would wish that on any child, I can only hope *you* get reincarnated poor, and hopefully female and black, to a single mother, who tosses you out for being gay, and you end up "in the system." There is a reason social workers have such a high suicide rate.

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