Instead of feeding high school kids who were too poor to pay their lunch bill, a high school in Minnesota humiliated the students in front of the other students by throwing their hot meals in the garbage and giving them cold food instead, reports NBC News. After the school was exposed, they decided an apology was in order.
“We deeply regret our actions today and the embarrassment that it caused several of our students,” the district wrote in a statement Monday. “We have met with some of the students involved and apologized to them.”
Richfield Superintendent Steven Unowsky told KARE the actions of cafeteria staff were “inappropriate.”
“There are multiple failures we had in this situation and our job is to fix it. First and foremost [in] the way we treated our kids. We should never leave kids with the feeling they had from the experience,” Unowsky said.
It seems like a decent apology. You can donate to the school district’s meal account here. It’s kind of difficult to do, so follow the directions closely.
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