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New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:22PM   
from the no-soup-for-you dept.

n1 writes:

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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Original Submission

• isn't a nice hot one isn't a nice hot one (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:05AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:05AM (#491478)

  For school lunch in the USA, nobody ever gets "a nice hot one". Here are the two possibilities:

  1. The non-paying student gets grape jelly, peanut butter, and white bread. The glycemic index is sky high, so causing hyperactivity followed by sleepiness. All three ingredients are yucky, but nothing is really horrible. Well, I would have vomited from the peanut butter, but that's just me.

  2. The paying student gets a hot lunch. The heat ensures that everybody can experience the vile smell. It's something like overcooked pasta with soy-based fake burger, 6 grapes, skim milk, and lettuce covered with a dressing made from various soy and corn chemicals.

  Also, nobody washes hands before the meal. You might not be allowed, there is no time, and you'd certainly have to touch dirty doors before getting back to your food. Nobody flosses or brushes their teeth afterward.

  Parent

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• Re:isn't a nice hot one (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 10 2017, @05:58PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday April 10 2017, @05:58PM (#491779) Journal

  Except in this case the non-paying student get a bigs helping of STFU.

  And the paying student gets, you know, food.

  Parent