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I Had To Pack A Cold Peanut Butter Sandwich To School Every Day. Somehow, I Lived
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A cafeteria worker at a Pennsylvania school quit, and very publicly so, because, she says, she was upset that she was told to take a hot lunch away from a child because his parents hadn't paid for his lunches. But there's more to this: Turns out that the district had a problem with parents stiffing the district for lunch, so they instituted a rule that if the parents went over $25 in debt for the lunches, the kids would not get the hot meal, just a cold sandwich. And she had mistakenly given a kid a hot lunch and was told to go make the change. They're calling the policy "lunch shaming." Now, yeah, it was probably a bad idea to have her make the change once she'd made the mistake, but she seems to have a problem with the idea of making the kids ineligible for the hot food, which leads to the question: What else can the schools do if parents aren't paying? What if all parents said screw it, we won't pay and what are they gonna do to us? If she doesn't like the policy, she doesn't seem to have a better idea. (AP via WTAE-TV/Pittsburgh)
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