What kind of cruel person would throw a student’s lunch in the trash because they didn’t have the money to pay?
Does anyone believe Mark Daniel, the superintendent, that there are “policies in place to avoid instances such as these…”? Me, neither. Somebody has given permission to that minimum wage cafeteria worker that it is perfectly okay to waste good food to punish a child for the parents’ mistakes. I don’t know if you can even call it a mistake when this parent is a single Mom working two jobs to take care of her family. What is missing from this picture, besides compassion…? The father, who is probably paying very little in support or nothing at all. My ex only paid one-fifth of his $100k income to support three children. And he begrudged even that little amount…
There is more to this story, folks, than is being written about here.
And God Bless the mother for her compassion and generosity. God Bless the son for he learned something through his pain of humiliation.