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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 fliptop on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)

    by fliptop (1666) on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:18PM (#491328) Journal

    Someone who thinks defying the most fundamental biological drive is a plausible option for anything is so woefully out of touch with what it means to be alive

    And I'm pretty sure the Republicans didn't write that law.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:40PM (#491342)

    You are right. They did not.
    Instead the GOP passed the punitive laws that apply to people who are the result of procreation.