The latest school craze: Lunch shaming students – PB/TK
Students Say NJ School Held Lunch-Shaming Roll Call – By Ben Collins and Eoin Higgins / May 31 2017
Students at the public Fair Lawn High School in New Jersey say names of seniors were called out in an assembly and presented with a choice on Wednesday morning: Pay for your school lunches or don’t get a diploma.
“Exactly like a roll call,” Fair Lawn senior Benny Koval told The Daily Beast. “And for (overdue library) books, the students called had to actually walk over to the stage and pick something up.”
A picture taken by Koval on Wednesday morning from within the assembly, which was otherwise about graduation prep, quickly went viral on Twitter, where users contended the call-out amounted to a particularly public form of lunch shaming. Some commenters even offered to give the school cash to pay off lunch debts.
“My high school’s having a name & shame for students who owe lunch and/or book money,” Koval’s tweet read. “Admins say they won’t graduate unless debts are covered.”
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