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‘The first-graders will cry.’ Schools rethink policies that shame kids at lunch. [SacBee.com]

 

There won’t be any more cheese sandwiches served at Elk Grove Unified schools.

The region’s largest school district will no longer give students a bland, alternative lunch when they run out of meal funds or forget their lunch money.

Elk Grove Unified is joining districts across the region and nation that are changing rules so that children who come up short for lunch money aren’t embarrassed with a different meal than what their peers receive – or not fed at all, as has been the case elsewhere.



[For more of this story, written by Diana Lamber, go to http://www.sacbee.com/news/loc...rticle167670822.html]

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