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Food issue position project. Maria Gapac
- 1. School Lunch Shaming What impact willnew legislative bills have on the current national lunch program and the children and families https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.childtrends.org%2Fstate- policies-address-school-lunch-shaming&psig=AOvVaw0fjDArC9h- wOpO_HVtJQY5&ust=1587428013210000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPi0 66zc9egCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
- 2. What is goingon? • Child shaming • Family income situations are imposed on children • Families Accumulating Debt • What are school administrations doing? • What are the states doing? • How will new legislative bills enact change? https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnationswell.com%2Fstop ping-school-lunch- shaming%2F&psig=AOvVaw1PUlcFRinBPEx6mvCWeXnc&ust=15874288564360
- 3. Why are childrenbeing shamed? • Unpaid school lunch meals • Children are denied food • Accused of having food debt • Cafeteria segregation • Food discrimination • Stigmatized students Humiliati on Embarra ssment Shamed Bullied
- 4. Children should not haveto face public Shame But what is being done to help students and low-income families?
- 5. National School LunchProgram • Federally assisted meal program • Established under National School Lunch Act • Provides nutritionally balanced meals • Free or low-cost • Food and Nutrition • Participant Schools: • Receive cash subsidies and USDA foods per reimbursable meal • Must offer lunches at free or reduced priced to eligible students • Reimbursed for after school programs • FNS trains school
- 6. Requirements and Qualifications • Childeligibility through federal Assistance Programs • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program • Status: homeless, runaway, foster child
- 7. Digging Deeper… • NSLPsupposed to help low-income families • What happened? • Participating students are identified and stigmatized Discrimination In the National School Lunch Program ! • Karnaze, Anna. “You Are Where You Eat: Discrimination in the National School Lunch Program.” You Are Where You Eat: Discrimination in the National School Lunch Program, 2018, pp. 626–666. • Various schools are practicing discrimination, segregation, and stigmatization !
- 8. It doesn’t endthere… • Denied school activities and programs due to negative food balance • Minnesota School: Ban Seniors from Graduation • Serve demeaning lunches • Physical attacks in Public • 8 y/o branded with “I need lunch money” • Pennsylvania School District: Wyoming Valley West School District • Sent letters home threatening the removal of child • Placement in foster home • If balance remains unpaid Litvinov, Amanda, and Emily
- 9. Adding fuel tothe fire Suffering Programs: • Meal programs under pressure • Unable to support themselves and have accumulate debt • Decreased reimbursement rates Trump Administration • Implement changes in SNAP • Increase students with food insecurity • New rule on SNAP Qualifications
- 10. A Call for Action! • Many State Legislators and School Administration are fighting to end School Lunch Shaming. • New Mexico: Hunger-Free Students’ Bill of Rights
- 11. What is beingdone? • California: every student will receive full lunch regardless of financial status • Virginia House/Senate: 2018 Anti-Lunch Shaming Bill to end child stigmatization • April 2019: Anti-Lunch Shaming Act introduced by congress • Prohibit public identification of a child with debt • Annapolis Senator Clarence Lam: Senate Bill 760
- 12. Justice for Children! Bills andLegislation enacted by numerous states are beginning to influence the entire country! Domino Effect WOOT!
- 13. The battle hasnot ended yet • Still face threats from Trump’s USDA • Not at 50 States have passed legislation • Funding needed to support families in need Let us celebrate Progress!
- 14. Current Battle • COVID-19 hasincreased food insecurity across the nation • Students depended on School lunches • Looking for alternatives, food banks, continuous support CORONA VIRUS 2019
- 15. Works Cited • Bedner,Eric. “School Lunch BillAims to Feed Children without Stigma.” Journal Inquirer, 23 Feb. 2020, www.journalinquirer.com/politics_and_government/school- lunch-bill-aims-to-feed-children-without-stigma/article_6acfd092-533c-11ea-89d0-4bedbf9c2d26.html. • Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. “The National School Lunch Program Fact Sheet.” United States Department of Agriculture, 2017, fns- prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf. • Burke, Minyvonne. “Connecticut Lawmakers to Debate Bill Prohibiting Shaming over School Lunch Debt.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 18 Feb. 2020, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/connecticut-lawmakers-debate-bill-prohibiting-shaming-over-school-lunch-debt-n1137911. • Karnaze,Anna. “You AreWhereYou Eat: Discrimination in the National School Lunch Program.” You Are WhereYou Eat: Discrimination in the National School Lunch Program, 2018, pp. 626–666. • Litvinov,Amanda, and Emily Bricker. “StatesTake On 'Lunch Shaming', But Child Nutrition Still UnderThreat.” NEAToday, 17 Oct. 2019, neatoday.org/2019/10/17/states-take-on-lunch-shaming/. • Southey, Flora. “Food Insecurity: HowCOVID-19 Is Exacerbating a Crisis Already on a 'Knife-Edge'.” Foodnavigator.com, 15 Apr. 2020, www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/04/15/Food-insecurity-How-COVID-19-is-exacerbating-a-crisis-already-on-a-knife-edge.
Editor's Notes
- #6 Aims to provide nutritionally balanced meals that are low-cost or free for children. It operates in public and nonprofit private schools as well as residential child care institutions. Established under the National School Lunch Act signed by President Harry Truman in 1964. https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf
- #8 This article discusses the NSLP (national school lunch program) and how various schools nationwide have adopted practices that stigmatize students. There are two focuses in this article. One is the physical separation of paying and non-paying students in the cafeteria, and the practice of shaming students who can’t pay for meals. This article also discuses title VI of the civil rights act of 1964 which prohibits the discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs that recieve financial assistance, such as the NSLP.
- #9 http://neatoday.org/2019/10/17/states-take-on-lunch-shaming/ Banned from being enrolled in extracurricular activities, recess, or denied report cards, forced to do cafeteria chores Senator Clarance Lam of Annapolis, Maryland
- #10 Trump’s USDA has proposed a new rule that could cause families to lose SNAP benefits SNAP: Provides low-income people with monthly funds for food purchases. 44% are children Proposed rule involved in cutting SNAP benefits/funding, could place community eligibility at risk Students affected health and learning. States Take On ‘Lunch Shaming’, But Child Nutrition Still Under Threathttp://neatoday.org/2019/10/17/states-take-on-lunch-shaming/
- #11 New Mexico the first state in the country to address and eliminate the issue of lunch shaming. The law requires schools to enroll eligible students into the free and reduced-price meals program if their guardians have not, and provide all students with a healthy meal. It expressly prohibits publicly embarrassing students whose families cannot pay.
- #12 The Virginia House and Senate unanimously passed an anti-lunch shaming bill in 2018, putting an end to practices that could stigmatize children in cafeterias across the state. It was a step cheered by educators like Shan Lighty, a nutritional manager at Albert Hill Middle School in Richmond, Va
- #15 https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/04/15/Food-insecurity-How-COVID-19-is-exacerbating-a-crisis-already-on-a-knife-edge