One of America’s Shame. Throw away the food if the child did not pay for it. It might be 25 cents or more but it is sometimes hard for some parents to get it.

A lunch lady from Aurora, Colorado elementary school was fired for giving free lunch to 1^st graders who could not pay for it. She was supposed to throw away the food and give the children a single slice of cheese on a hamburger bun and a milk.