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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: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:01PM (5 children)
If by "society" you mean you'd be happy to pay for someone else's kid to eat, more power to you./quote.
As the biggest misanthrope on this website you are the last person anyone should listen to on the topic of what constitutes a society. You live in an alternate universe randian utopia that has never once existed in the history of mankind.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:10PM (4 children)
Did you have a point there or were you just flinging shit because you disagree?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @01:25AM (3 children)
Did you have a point or were you just posting to assuage your wounded ego?
Your posts are so unintentionally revealing they are like a window into your desiccated soul.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @01:32AM (2 children)
Isn't that special... You think you know how to troll. It's so cute!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:02AM
Dude, professional standards, please! Real Trolls know when to leave them hanging. You are just verifying everything that everyone suspects of you. Epic Troll Fail, dude! Reboot! Start again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:46PM
As the biggest misanthrope on this website you are the last person anyone should listen to on the topic of what constitutes a society. You live in an alternate universe randian utopia that has never once existed in the history of mankind.
Umm, learn to cogitate? That is not even close to trolling, that is straight up "fuck you".