Lunch shaming the kids when parents can't pay their debt is still happening in many states.
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00:00And a kid in front of me didn't have enough money, and they had to put their tray down.
00:05And that made me sad.
00:10Stigmatizing these children that way can possibly last with them for the rest of their lives.
00:31I just put the cheese sandwich on his tray, and that's when he just looked and his eyes welled up.
00:43Today, children are treated very differently in the lunchroom.
00:50If they don't have money to pay the lunchroom debt that they may have, and if they're 6 years old or 11 years old,
00:57they have no power, they have no way of actually resolving this matter.
01:00It just made me feel more poor.