I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

And then, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned that Bluffdale Elementary — a school I had no personal connection to — had about $835 in outstanding lunch debt […] “Can I just… pay that?” I asked, half expecting to be told about some bureaucratic impossibility.

This is what we should be doing. Helping kids, rather than ridiculing and embarrassing them.

It’s what a (functioning) society should/would be focused on. Unfortunately, the U.S. is not a functioning society right now.