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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 Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 10 2017, @06:14PM (2 children)
Giving them enough to eat so that they CAN achieve is the precise opposite of what you're saying, and you damn well know that. Don't you get it?! In order for them to achieve ANYTHING, *their bodies must have adequate fuel, macro-, and micro-nutrients available to them!*
Fuck you sideways. When you say "helping people means you think you're better than them" thing at ALL; you're projecting your own feelings in that situation onto other people, because sure as fuck YOU are so stunted and evil that the only reason YOU would help someone else is for the self-congratulatory tinglies.
Well, guess what? Most of us aren't sociopaths. Most of us know Rand is full of shit. Most of us are social animals. And some of us, Uzzard, understand that everyone and everything is connected, and that in a very real sense when one of us is hurting we're all diminished. And I mean this on the level of plain old money, too; we let these kids suffer and fail, and we're gonna be paying for it dozens of times over in prisons, ER care, homeless shelters, social programs, you name it. This is not only the right thing to do morally, it's the right thing to do fiscally.
Piss the hell off with this. You don't have a single original or useful thought in your corpse-defiling buzzard skull that doesn't relate to coding, and the entire community knows it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:31PM (1 child)
all those costs you name are more ills of socialism. of course your logic is correct, if we have to coddle them from birth to death. socialism is un-american. glad i don't fund the scum at the irs. people like you already have it spent wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:42PM
Yeah, god forbid we feed the children who will grow up to be citizens. It would be SO horrible if we taught that that generosity and looking out for your neighbors is a good thing. Much better that we let them suffer throughout childhood, get a shitty job with their shitty grades, and then turn to crime when they see no other viable alternative. Yup, that sounds just about perfect!
but but MAH MOOONIEEEESSSS! scum