Children should not have lunch debt from previous school years haunting
them.

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Will you chip in $5.19 to help pay for these students' lunches?  
  

[ [link removed] ]CHIP IN $5.19

John,

Back-to-school season is in full effect! Students are breaking in new
clothes, gathering their school supplies, and getting back into the swing
of their school-day routines. But some students aren’t able to have a
carefree return to school because they are confronted with their lunch
debt from the previous year. This is unacceptable; no child should have to
return to school with lunch debt. [ [link removed] ]Chip in $5.19 to help eliminate lunch
debt for students as they return for the 2019-2020 school year. 

Too often, students whose families have low incomes are shamed by school
administrators because they can’t afford to pay for lunch. Sometimes,
students are even prevented from having a hot meal at lunchtime, or
they’re forced to throw out their lunch entrées. At Minnesota’s St. Paul
Public School, for instance, students’ unpaid school lunch debt can result
in extreme consequences. Seniors were prevented from graduating at the end
of the year. That’s not okay, and we at Color Of Change want to help shift
the unjust status quo. [ [link removed] ]Chip in $5.19 to make sure that students are
able to go back to school this year without lunch debt. 

Students and their parents don’t deserve to be shamed because they can’t
afford the cost of lunch, and they definitely don’t deserve to have lunch
debt from previous school years haunting them. This is unfair, and it
disproportionately impacts the Black and Latinx students whose families
have low incomes due to systemic economic barriers. This inequity is why
we want to clear students’ lunch debt altogether. 

When Color Of Change members band together, we’re able to fight back
against systems that hurt our people. And schools inflicting lunch debt on
low-income students and their parents year after year, adding to the
pressures our communities already experience, hurts our people. [ [link removed] ]Chip in
$5.19 so that students and their families do not have lunch debt following
them into a new school year.

Until justice is real, 
—Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Johnny, Future, Samantha, Eesha, Marcus,
FolaSade, Jamila, and the rest of the Color Of Change team

References:

 1. “Warwick School Committee approves policy ending ‘lunch shaming,’”
WPRI.com, May 15, 2019,
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 2. “Officials, advocates push for Minnesota law to keep students from
being denied diplomas over school lunch debts,” Star Tribune, May 10,
2019,
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