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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:28PM
What good are the guidelines when the same government that provides them allows you to buy Pepsi and potato chips w/ your EBT card?
It is a bullshit myth that SNAP recipients spend significantly more of their budget on soda and junk food than other families.
The difference is less than 5% [usda.gov] of their total spend (including cash combined with SNAP funds) and that does not account for the fact that non-SNAP households spend more in total on food, so a single $2 honeycrisp apple 'counts' as much as five 40-cent fuji apples, despite being 80% less actual food.