Another Child Goes Hungry
The summers at my
grandparent was the best. I can remember
as if it was yesterday. Every kid on the block enjoyed hanging out there. Unlike, most parents on the street when lunch
time came they would call their kids in and we would all have to go home until
they finished lunch. At my grandparents
it was just the opposite. If we were all
playing at my grandparent’s home at lunch time every kid got a hot dog, grilled
cheese, popsicles, chips, juice or whatever.
One day Mr. Evans, one
of the neighbors across the street, stopped my grandfather as he was coming
home from work and told him man you’re not ever going to have anything your
wife feeds every kid on the block. My grandparents were not rich by no means,
but we had whatever we needed and we always had plenty to eat. Maybe that was
because we shared and was taught to share.
Saying that to say this. How can
you deny a child food and a thirty (30) cent breakfast? Where was the morals of that staff
member? Why didn’t she pay for the lunch
instead of throwing it in the trash and having the child go hungry? I just cannot get that out of my mind. If it was against the schools policy then
THINK! Some have done a lot worse than going against the rule and paying thirty
(30) cents for the child’s breakfast.
I thought that was so sad! Shame on the person who denied this child breakfast! Eating at school may be the only opportunity this child has to eat, and they were denied for not having $0.30?!?!?!?! Shame!
ReplyDeleteI like schools that have breakfast for every. single. child. No one is singled out as reduced-cost or poor. Everyone gets a breakfast sandwich, milk, and a piece of fruit. At a school where I observed a student teacher, the fourth graders were quick, quiet, and neat with their meals, too--no trash or crumbs.
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