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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:32PM (#491711)

    Maybe you missed the latest reality check, but right now the US is a place where an ever-increasing (but still tiny) population of stupefyingly rich, irresponsible, stupid, and lazy people get to do whatever they please, while the hard working majority of people are forced to give up their hard earned money to the top 1% for "reasons".

    Taxes are normal and keep society moving.

    Extreme greed takes resources away from society and makes it collapse.

    Your definition of civilized is actually the opposite, what you propose is anarchy or such a thin system of "government" that it may as well be anarchy. I imagine a horde of angry poor people in your proposed future, a horde which runs over anyone with any amount of property / resources. This mob will work hard at plundering your stash of goodies, and will prudently leave your bibles behind. Hooray for the future!