Stacy Koltiska, a mother of three who worked in a cafeteria at
an elementary school in Pennsylvania for three years, quit her job
in September after being forced to deny a hot meal to a first
grader (ie. primary one student) during the first week of
school.
"I made him cry because I literally took away the fried chicken
I had just served him and threw it in the trash since he couldn't
pay up," she told AFP. "His little eyes welled up with tears and
I'm like, 'I can't do this. This is ridiculous.'"
In her resignation letter, which made headlines, Koltiska said
she could no longer "work for an institution that would withhold
food and humiliate a child over $2.05."
"I mean how do you expect kids to go all day, focus,
concentrate, do well in school for eight hours without being fed?"
she told AFP. "We feed prisoners three times a day and we can't
feed our children."
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