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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a kid who got free lunch at a school where that was a minority situation, it's shaming enough without having to work for the crappy lunch. Also, I did work. babysitting at 12, fast food starting at 16. I"m still bitter.[/quote]

Agree. And you know some of the bitchy kids would purposely tip over garbage cans and laugh at the poor kid cleaning it up, or spill their drink to laugh at the poor kid cleaning it up. When is this kid supposed to do this "work"?  Before school? After? During? There's no good time.

At my private high school I *wanted* extra money and found out there was a job wiping down lunch tables and then folding and putting them away. I think it was $3 a day or $5 a day. It took 10 minutes, and for a girl who was socially awkward having something to do during recess other than socializing worked well for me. A teacher pulled me aside one day and pointed out another student, whose family the school knew was poor, and told me Suzy needed some money for  the weekend, and would I mind giving up my job to her for the week. I said okay. From then on any time she was in a pinch she could come ask me if she could do the tables, and I always said yes. But we were in 11th and 12th grade, not 1st grade. [/quote]

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