Today, I read a news story about some elementary students whose parents had run out of lunch money for their kids. The school discovered this at lunch time and literally took the kids lunch away. Sad on its own, but, it gets worse.
The cafeteria servers threw the lunches in the garbage.
I cold go on about wasting food when so many have none but that is not my point here. Children, in our country were denied a lunch and had their food tossed in the garbage. What level of a society have we become where people, ordered by a higher authority or not, are willing to take a lunch away from a child and throw it in the garbage?
It was not a coerced act, it was a clear willingness to disregard the best possible outcome for the child. Food was taken away and ruined over a few cents.
Have we become so morally corrupt that we can openly and willingly allow family finances to not only embarrass a child but deny them a simple school lunch? Is this what we have become?
I hope we are better than this story. If not we will be, but the price we pay to get there will be steep.
joelmerritz 