Army vet takes on Texas schools shaming students in lunch line

At least four of the largest school districts in North Texas have practices that shame students in the lunch line.

So-called shaming happens when a student doesn't have money in his or her account to pay for a meal and a cafeteria worker takes away their tray of food, disposing of it in front of other children, and replacing it with a lesser substitute like a sandwich.

"I think a lot of people would be shocked. They're just not aware of it," said Kelvin Holt, 54, a teacher in Copperas Cove. He spent more than 32 years in the U.S. Army as a medic, mechanic, and helicopter pilot. After retiring a few years ago, he became a teacher in Central Texas and witnessed such shaming happen with a 4-year-old girl in a Pre-K class he taught.

"The message that sends to a child is 'I care about my bottom line. I don't care about you or your feelings or your hunger.'"

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