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Lunch shaming is a general term referring to when a student is singled out and embarrassed or shamed due to them or their parents not being able to pay for school lunches, or if they have any unpaid lunch debt. Lunch shaming can involve having a marker, like a stamp or wristband, indicating that the child cannot afford a school lunch due to debt or a lack of money, or it can involve being served less expensive cold lunches as opposed to hot lunches.[1][2][3][4]
Lunch shaming is often blamed on the limited meal budgets public schools have to work with in the United States, which would lead many schools to pursue any outstanding debt in order to recoup costs.[5][2][6][4] According to attorney Jessica Webster, "This is a financial transaction between school district and a parent. Kids shouldn’t be placed in the middle or ever fear being turned away from the lunch counter.”[7]
Many states in the US have outlawed practices that single out students who have school lunch debt.[5][4] Webster was part of the Legal Services Advocacy Project team that wrote the legislation,[8] signed by Governor Tim Waltz in 2023, that made Minnesota the third state to offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students.[9]
^Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf (12 May 2019). "The government already knows how to end school lunch shaming". CNN. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
^ ab"Law Seeks to Ban School Lunch Shaming". Modern Farmer. 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
^"U.S. schools rethink 'lunch shaming' policies that humiliate children with meal debts". PBS NewsHour. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
^ abc"How 'lunch shaming' is facing scrutiny around the US". AP NEWS. 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
^ abSiegel, Bettina Elias (2017-04-07). "New Mexico Outlaws School 'Lunch Shaming'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
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