by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting

Is it shaming to stamp a child's hand when their lunch money account is empty"
It happened to my younger son once in elementary school, though a smiley face was used as a reminder, rather than the actual words "lunch money." Other kids, however, have not been so lucky.
One mom in Arizona recently found her second-grader with those exact words inked on his inner wrist. "I was surprised," Tara Chavez told BuzzFeed. "Normally I get a slip in his folder when he needs more money."
Although it's that school district's policy for the lunch staff to ask students if they want a stamp or a note home, Tara's son said he wasn't given a choice. The stamp worked in the sense that the message was received, but Tara says her son was extremely embarrassed to have the ink on his wrist. "He was screaming and crying the entire time," she explained. "He was humiliated, didn?t even want me to take a picture of it."
Tara did take a picture, however, and after a friend posted it to Twitter comments began pouring in regarding whether the school was wrong.

Meanwhile, first-of-its-kind legislation has been passed in New Mexico, outlawing shaming children whose parents are behind on school lunch payments. Previously, tactics such as the stamp, forcing children to clean the cafeteria to work off their debt, and the dumping of hot lunches in the trash were in practice when meals couldn't be paid for.
Unbeknown...