Sentences with phrase «about lunch shaming»

Several readers have also shared with me a new video about lunch shaming that's making the rounds on the Internet.

While impoverished families and those inside the school food world have known about lunch shaming for decades, the intense viral reaction to those two Times stories made clear that most Americans had no idea that kids with meal debt are stigmatized every day in school cafeterias around the country.

For me, the biggest surprise of that story was how very surprised the Times readership appeared to be about lunch shaming.

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In early April, I had a news story in the New York Times about the passage of a groundbreaking law in New Mexico that bans «lunch shaming» - practices in the cafeteria that single out kids with meal debt, such as being given a cold sandwich instead... [Continue reading]

«There are other mothers who can't even afford to do lunch orders and then for them to get shamed about what they're giving their kid for recess, I just don't like it.

For example, in 2011, I wrote a post about impoverished students here in Houston being photographed with cell phones in the lunch line and shamed by their peers on social media.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

This page gives an overview of TLT's regular features — Notes from the Field; the Kids» Snack Hall of Shame; the Friday Buffet — as well as links to some of our best past conversations, like those about picky eaters; kids and table manners; sneaking veggies into kids» food; and our TLT Reader Exchanges on lunch box ideas, cookbooks and more.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

I also wrote for the Times about: a frozen pizza that sneaks veggies into unsuspecting kids; changes ahead for junk food in school classrooms; why President Trump's eating habits are fair game for commentators; and a groundbreaking New Mexico law banning lunch shaming.

For some low income students, the shame they feel about going to the cafeteria is enough to keep them from eating lunch altogether, preferring hunger to embarrassment.

Since new legislation out of New Mexico on so - called lunch shaming made headlines, we've heard a lot about how schools react.

``; a shame it was over lunch (like the preservation panel) since it was harder to take notes, but in essence it was good to hear the two sides to working, what indie is, about game jams and other things.