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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 10 2017, @11:47AM (4 children)
I support teaching kids to be self-reliant. I do not think public schools in the US do a good job with that.
But letting them starve during key formative years will make them physically unable to be fully productive as adults and stamp them emotionally with resentment and hatred so deep that it will express itself in any number of deletarious ways later. That does not make sense.
Feeding and nurturing kids is always a good investment, no matter how you slice it, no matter what the cost.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @11:55AM (2 children)
Nothing ever said before "no matter what the cost" is ever correct.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:03PM
Nothing ever said before "no matter what the cost" is ever correct.
So you agree that a commitment to "free speech" no matter what the cost is incorrect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:33PM
Absolutes, the phrases God looks for when he needs a laugh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:36PM
i don't think anyone wants kids to starve but that's their parents' problem. However, if people want other people's kids to have food, then food charitiesshould easily have it covered. if not, then all the bleeding hearts are just generous with other people's money. Small towns could easily have community gardens where people grow their own food. instead, we steal from working people to feed them poisonous food. it's pitiful.