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Colorado Lunch Lady Fired For Giving Free Lunches to Poor Students

Della Curry, a 35 year old kitchen manager at a Colorado school, was fired by the Cherry Creek School District on Friday. Her crime? Giving free lunches to hungry students who couldn’t afford them.

Curry had worked as a kitchen manager for the Dakota Valley Elementary School for about a year, and says she often saw students crying out of hunger because they couldn’t afford to pay for their school lunches. So, rather than see them suffer, she gave them food for free, often paying out of her own pocket. While most would view this as an act of common decency, Curry’s school district saw it as a good reason to fire her.

“The law does not require the school district to provide a meal to children who have forgotten their lunch money,” the district said in a statement.

For her part, Curry never denied that she had violated any policies or laws. But to her, it’s not the violation that was a problem, it’s the law itself.

“I had a first grader in front of me crying, because she doesn’t have enough money for lunch. Yes, I gave her lunch,” she told KCNC-TV. “I’ll own that I broke the law. The law needs to change.”….More Here

 

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