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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:21PM
yeah I was wondering -- where does this guy end up thinking the kids are being forced to eat government brainwash food?
christ, he can pack the lunch himself if he cares about what his kids eat, and then go whine that he refuses to participate in the scheme and hand selects the food for his children.
its what my mom used to do, she even bought groceries on a weekly basis! my school didn't even have lunches provided, this whole arguement is totally alien to me that everyone gets a lunch.
she made my lunch for school for 12 years -- and when i got home from kindergarten after school ended. i dont remember her complaining that poor city children got lunch for free while she HAD to make one for me.
there were kids that had prepackaged sandwiches because their rich parents couldn't be bothered, but that was few and far between.