Minnesota Turns Away Hungry Kids from School Lunch
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Would you punish your child by throwing their meal in the trash?
Transcript of Minnesota Turns Away Hungry Kids from School Lunch
Would you punish your child by throwing their meal in the trash?
In the State of Minnesota, 62,000 students are eligible for reduced-
price lunch daily
Including kids from families of 4 that make between $30,000 and $43,000
a year.
Each student is asked to pay $.40 per meal.
A percentage of those children’s families often cannot afford the co-payment, and in Minnesota, they
are turned away.
Some are taken to the kitchen and given a cheese sandwich.
Some are snapped on their wrists with a rubber band as a
painful reminder.
Some have their tray of food scraped into the trash right on the
spot.
In April, 4 lunch employees were fired for denying lunch to students who didn’t have enough money at
Coelho Middle School in Massachusetts.
They were fired for shaming children. But in Minnesota, turning
kids away is the law.
Help us stop this shameful practice in
Minnesota.
