First Utah, Now Virginia–Taking Student’s Lunches Away

On January 28, CNN reported that many children’s school lunches were being taken away from them if they had a negative balance on their accounts. “The trays were grabbed from pupils at Uintah Elementary School…before they could even take a bite — because they had negative balances in the accounts used to pay for lunches,” school officials acknowledged.

On January 31, the same “lunch grabbing” incident happened in Loudoun County, Virginia—the richest county in the U.S.– to my friend’s son. He said,

This story just happened to my son today. He found out that he was low on his lunch account balance and had to give the lunch tray back to the cashier and go hungry. What really upsets me is that the lunch lady did not let him know yesterday that his balance was low. He was so hungry after school.

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