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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 meustrus on Monday April 10 2017, @08:00PM
The solution is pretty simple: pay for the food with taxes. The problem with that is mainly people who send their kids to school with a lunchbox who would be indignant that they still have to pay, and to a lesser extent people with no kids anyway. It's ultimately the same problem as funding public education at all though, which is...currently under fire in every Republican state as a target to slash funding in order to pay for their tax cuts for the rich.
I eagerly await the libertarian straw man to tell me how this plan is wrong because threats of violence if you don't pay your taxes are wrong and we should have a ridiculously complicated system of trillions of legal contracts between individuals instead, apparently enforced by sheer goodwill.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?