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, @09:36PM (2 children)
Funny how its ok for YOU to get all emotional, screaming about enforcing welfare at a point of a gun and invoking the ugliest racial stereotypes.
When someone points out how emotional and vapid your arguments are, all you can do is whine that they are being emotional.
Silly little hypocrite, tricks are for kids!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:20PM (1 child)
Government decides it's going to start paying for every child's lunch, and is going to do so with my money; if I don't comply, I'm going to be thrown into a cage (or worse, depending upon how well I try to defend myself).
That's not emotional; that's factual.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:54PM
'Bout damn time, too! A cage is too good for such treasonous freeloaders such as yourself. We are coming to take your money, and give it to "disadvantaged urban youth"! Ha! How do you like those apples! And they we are going to take money you have not even made yet, and we are going to pay for health care for veterans! Oww, that must burn! And after all that, we are going to take the rest of your money, and spend it on the Arts: you know, Opera, Sculpture, NPR. As others have said, if you don't like it, GTFO. We own you! We might just have to nationalize your ass if we find ourselves in an actually shooting war, and if you fucking die, and loose ALL your money, well, it sucks to be you. But at least the little school kids will get some hot lunch.