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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 Monday April 10 2017, @03:21AM (1 child)
I'm a parent. Kids of that age like to skip the socks. It makes your shoes smelly, so I insist on socks, but the kids still like to run off without the socks.
Girls have fewer odor issues and fewer urinary infections if they wear dresses without underwear.
I'm sure I used to look like I had cigarette burns. I loved to use my soldering iron, despite being really unskilled.
Some people are much more prone to bruising. If you are not a bruiser but somebody else is, you'll see a bruise they got from bumping the table and think they must have been beaten with a baseball bat. Wrong assumptions made my mother-in-law think that I might be beating my wife, who legitimately couldn't remember how she got the bruises. My mom managed to get full-leg bruises from climbing back into a canoe.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 10 2017, @05:31AM
Sure, every single one of them just liked to freebird and was prone to stair falls. Right. God damn, but some people will do ANYTHING to erase the mental image of child neglect and abuse.
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