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Would you punish your child by throwing their meal in the trash?

Minnesota Turns Away Hungry Kids from School Lunch

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Would you punish your child by throwing their meal in the trash?

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In the State of Minnesota, 62,000 students are eligible for reduced-

price lunch daily

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Including kids from families of 4 that make between $30,000 and $43,000

a year.

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Each student is asked to pay $.40 per meal.

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A percentage of those children’s families often cannot afford the co-payment, and in Minnesota, they

are turned away.

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Some are taken to the kitchen and given a cheese sandwich.

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Some are snapped on their wrists with a rubber band as a

painful reminder.

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Some have their tray of food scraped into the trash right on the

spot.

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In April, 4 lunch employees were fired for denying lunch to students who didn’t have enough money at

Coelho Middle School in Massachusetts.

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They were fired for shaming children. But in Minnesota, turning

kids away is the law.

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Help us stop this shameful practice in

Minnesota.