“No child will ever go hungry” West Fork Schools and lunch shaming

The West Fork School Board discussed the impact of delinquent school lunch accounts on students at their regular assembly earlier this month.

“When kids are turned away from lunch, they go hungry. When kids go hungry, they can’t learn,” said a board member.

The state legislature and the governor have pushed forward recent movements that discourage “lunch shaming” in schools—when a child’s lunch account is over-drafted and he/she is turned away in the lunch line because of it.

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