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US Schools Rethink Meal-Debt Policies That Humiliate Kids

  • July 05, 2017

Across the country schools are punishing children whose parents fail to give them lunch money, often embarrassing even the youngest by turning them away from the lunch line. As reported by ABC News, one school took a 4-year-old’s milk away and dumped her lunch in the trash when cafeteria workers discovered she had no lunch money. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this year is requiring schools to adopt better policies for addressing meal debts. Aside from the financial and...