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Don’t allow students to be humiliated in front of their friends simply because they lack the money to buy a hot lunch.

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URGENT: Humiliating Kids Is Not The Answer

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We, the undersigned call on Congress to enact legislation to outlaw the practice of lunch shaming, whereby public schools humiliate school children whose parents have fallen behind in their lunch payments.

Such actions are the epitome of 'blaming the victim,' and are counterproductive and cruel. Reports have surfaced of widespread practices in some states that include dumping a child's lunch in the trash rather than serving it, giving children with in-arrears accounts a sub-standard cold lunch instead of the hot lunch served to others, and other actions aimed at stigmatizing children who are at-risk for hunger.

The persistence of child hunger in this wealthy nation of ours is a tragedy and a scandal. Hungry kids cannot concentrate and often do poorly in school. And these children face not only the pain of hunger, but the constant anxiety of being singled out as 'one of the poor kids.' The practice of lunch shaming traumatizes some of our most vulnerable children, at a time when they really need care and compassion.

Legislation has been introduced in both houses of Congress to ban this deplorable practice. We urge you to act today to end lunch shaming and take more positive steps to end childhood hunger in America.

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