Cheesy
The Albuquerque public schools provide a cheese sandwich, fruit and milk to students who have no money to pay for lunch, and for some reason are not enrolled in the federal free school lunch program.
“We’ve heard stories from moms coming in saying their child was pulled out of the lunch line and given a cheese sandwich. … One woman said her daughter never wants to go back to school,” said Nancy Pope, director of the New Mexico Collaborative to End Hunger.
The Farmington Daily Times reports, “Experts agree that children will increasingly be forced to eat cheese sandwiches or apply for federally subsidized lunch programs as more parents nationally lose jobs and the economy struggles.”
This is stupid on both fronts. If the district decides to feed them regardless of whether they pay or not, then feed them like any other child. What’s next? Muffin stumps?
On the other hand, when did a cheese sandwich become the equivalent of child abuse? If only I had known this when I was a kid, I could have hired a trial lawyer and sued my parents.
