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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:47PM
Sounds like some folks should be fired, rather than slapped on the wrist and told they can't do it anymore. But I guess that probably steps on too many union toes, so just make a feelgood law to pass the guilt to someone else.
Its clear you don't know jackshit about what its like to be a public school teacher in schools like these. If you even have kids at all you never sent them to a school like this.
You've got it exactly backwards. Its not union people who implement these callus rules, its the administration who don't give the teachers the option to do better.
Furthemore your solution is bullshit anyway. Sure its great for teachers to get involved one-on-one with kids who have problems, but when the majority of kids in a school have these kinds of problems, a policy of dealing with them as special exceptions is a guarantee of failure. It must be addressed on a program level. Which, again, is an administrative task.