‘Something Needs To Be Done!’ Michigan Mom Pays Off Overdue Lunch Accounts For 19 Kids
Credit: misterbisson
May 10, 2014

Via Americans Against The Tea Party:

It seems like you can’t swing a cat without smacking into a story of hungry kids being denied food in school because they did not have enough in their lunch balance to cover it — whether they were outright denied, shamed, or had their food thrown in the trash.

When Amanda Keown received a call at work from her son, a junior at Dowagiac Union High School in Dowagiac, MI, telling her that he had not received his hot lunch because of an outstanding balance of $4.95 she took matters into her own hands. Keown not only fixed her son’s lunch balance, but every single outstanding balance in the sch...

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