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Originally posted by andViolins
I certainly agree that kids can be mean and cruel. And I agree that making fun of a kid because em is poor is an easy target. But I certainly don't think that kids are going to figure this out because some kid is using a meal ticket in the lunch line. Its going to be because of how the kid dresses or spends (or doesn't spend) money outside of school. Kids are mean but lazy. ITs got to be staring them in the face. Tell me, do you even remember what the lunch line in your school looked like? I sure don't. And I sure as hell don't remember whether some kid paid with a card or a coupon or shoved his eye into a beam.
aV
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actually, mr. violins, i do remember what the lunch line at my school cafeteria looked like. actually at my elementary school, everybody had tickets - and the teacher handed them out to people right before lunch so that we wouldn't lose them - you had to buy tickets in advance for the week. also you were stuck with one thing, so if you didn't like what they were serving you would have to pack your lunch. the lunch line was this long counter where they served up the food - at one end was the milk counter, at the other end was the cashier - who at least in the first few years of elementary school's main role was to punch the tickets. of course between the school uniforms and giving everybody lunch tickets it dramatically lowered the ability to tell what kids were poor.
ruthie
