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

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: 2) by Reziac on Monday April 10 2017, @05:25AM (4 children)

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday April 10 2017, @05:25AM (#491508) Homepage

    It's not stamping a scarlet letter. It's making sure the parent sees it in a kid who is unlikely to remember to take a note home from school.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by pe1rxq on Monday April 10 2017, @12:19PM (2 children)

    by pe1rxq (844) on Monday April 10 2017, @12:19PM (#491601) Homepage

    If stamping it on the arm of the kid is the only way a school can communicate effectivly with the parents your education system is seriously fucked up.

    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday April 10 2017, @03:51PM (1 child)

      by Reziac (2489) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:51PM (#491683) Homepage

      Or the parents are oblivious. Everything isn't on the school system's head, ya know.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:56PM (#491732)

        So what matters is that 0.01% who are bad parents, its their moral failings that should determine how all the other children are treated regardless of how damaging it is to those kids.
        You are a peach.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:14PM (#491704)

    It's not stamping a scarlet letter. It's making sure the parent sees it in a kid who is unlikely to remember to take a note home from school.

    And if that doesn't work, I suppose we could just tattoo it to their arm; that way, no one in their family will ever forget. I mean, it worked so fabulously for the nazis. </sarcasm>