Dalene Bowden, who worked at Irving Middle School in southeastern Idaho, was sacked last week after serving food to a 12-year-old student who said she could not pay for the meal.
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“I have to think about it”, Bowden said. The Pocatello/Chubbuck School District by Idaho law (33-518 and 74-106), is prohibited from commenting on the specifics regarding personnel matters.
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But being fired for feeding a hungry child and offering to pay the cost yourself is just plain ridiculous. Soon after Dalene Bowden said she had been suspended and then terminated by the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District, her story was picked up by news outlets across the nation and created a social media firestorm, inspiring a few online fundraising efforts.
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An Idaho school cafeteria worker who was sacked days before Christmas for giving at least one hungry middle school student a free lunch worth $1.70 was offered her job back after public outcry over her dismissal, the Idaho State Journal reported on Thursday. More than 85,000 people signed an online petition to have Bowden’s job restored.
Meanwhile, NBC News informed that the school district issued a press release on Wednesday night which stated that it has extended an opportunity for Darlene to return to her job “in the spirit of the holidays”.
“The District jeopardises its funding for the Federal Food Service Program if its employees do not follow the proper procedures and requirements”, the statement said.
“My heart hurts. I truly loved my job and I can’t say that I wouldn’t do it again”, Ms Bowden said.
With the city’s Facebook and Twitter pages “blowing up” over the affair, Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad called a meeting on Wednesday with Doug Howell, the interim superintendent of Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25.
According to Howell, about 6,500 children in District 25 – more than half the students – receive discounted or free hot meals daily.
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In 2013, Bowden was convicted of two theft charges after police found surveillance footage showing her taking money from her employer’s cash register and putting it into her tip jar at a Pocatello golf course.
