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: 3, Insightful) by dry on Monday April 10 2017, @02:36AM (1 child)
Being the greatest arseholes in the world is hardly anything to brag about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:24PM
Oh ho! You Brits better not spout off, you were the biggest nobs for a LONG while.