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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:35AM
Dude's not even a smart sociopath.
A smart one would recognize his own deficiencies. He might not consider them deficiencies but he'd at least recognize that everybody else sees the world differently and that civilization is where it is now due to the efforts of generations of people unlike himself.
Instead he's stuck in that high-school outcast mode of thinking everybody else are dummies and that they only pick on him because they are jealous of his smarts.