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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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New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:10PM
There's also the other side of the fence... Welfare families spending their welfare check on drugs and beer while the kids don't have milk in the fridge. Trying to help them get a job results in "Why do you work when you could collect welfare like me?"