Being Poor In America – ‘School Fires Principal For Not Shaming Low Income Kids With Hand Stamps’
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What would you do if you were a school principal, and you found out that students with empty lunch account balances were being shamed with a stamp on their hand, and got nothing to eat but a cheese sandwich’?
‘Worse, the food service workers had also been doing this to kids who were supposed to be getting free school lunches’.
‘When parents at the Peak to Peak charter school in Lafayette, CO complained to Principal Noelle Roni back in September, she tried to put an end to the hand-stamping’.
‘Then, in Nov. 2013, Principal Roni got fired’.
‘After two months of silence, ex-Principal Noelle Roni spoke with the Boulder Daily Camera to share her version of what had happened’.
“As soon as I saw it happening, I was like, ‘No, this is not OK,’. The students felt so humiliated, like they had done something wrong. They didn’t want to go into the lunchroom any more. It’s unethical and disrespectful.”
‘Here’s a timeline of events for the Principal’s firing’.
(1) Early Sept. — ‘Principal Roni tries to end the hand-stamping. First, Principal Noelle Roni asked the manager of food services to stop stamping the students’ hands. When the hand-stamping didn’t stop, the principal took up the issue with the school’s leadership in a meeting. The school sided with Roni, but the food services manager quit’.
(2) Sept. 19th, 2013 — ‘Principal Roni gets a nasty disciplinary letter in her file. Executive Director of Education Kelly Reeser sent Principal Roni a nasty memo that blamed her for the food services manager quitting, demanded that she “take responsibility.”
(3) November 1st, 2013 –’Principal Roni gets fired. On Nov. 1, Executive Director of Education Kelly Reeser abruptly fired Roni — even though Roni had served as principal at the school for eight years and had received good reviews for her job performance’.
‘Roni told the Boulder Daily Camera that the school offered to pay her for the rest of the year if she agreed to remain silent about what had happened’.
‘Roni refused to do so’.
From : http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/07/principal-fired-hand-stamps-school-lunch/
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