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Massachusetts - School forces students who can't pay to skip lunch, then trashes the food
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A Massachusetts community is up in arms after food workers at Robert J. Coelho Middle School in Attleboro denied food to 25 students they thought wouldn’t be able to pay for school lunches - then threw it in the garbage.
School officials admitted to Boston's Fox 25 that for two weeks an employee of school lunch vendor Whitson’s School Nutrition threw food in the garbage instead of feeding students who had outstanding balances on their pre-paid cafeteria cards.
Fifth grader Victoria Greaves, 11, said she didn’t have anything to eat after a cashier made her dispose of the food on her cafeteria tray. Upon hearing that his daughter went hungry, Greaves’ father John was shocked that the school didn’t inform him of what was going on.
“I’m pissed that when there are people in prison who are getting meals, my daughter, an honor student, is going hungry,” he said.
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