Days before Christmas, a school lunch lady in Idaho is out of a job allegedly because she gave free lunch to a student who said she didn’t have any money for food. A mother of two, Raushelle Goodin-Guzman, whose children are now enrolled in the district, started an online petition demanding that Bowden be given her job back.
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“I felt embarrassed, (because) all those other kids watched me get my food taken away”, she said. Bowden says that they are instructed to throw the real food away if a child over the limit attempts to buy it – a problem that somehow still persists nationwide in 2015.
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I gave a free lunch to a 12-year-old student who didn’t have money to pay for her hot lunch.
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Bowden told a local newspaper she offered to pay for the $1.70 meal, but her supervisor rejected the offer.
Responding to the fracas, the human resource director of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District sent Bowden a letter informing her she was being dismissed for theft of school property and inaccurate lunchroom transactions.
District leaders also noted that every meal the school provides must be accounted for under the Federal Food Service Program, and that funding is compromised when employees don’t follow cafeteria procedures.
The Pocatello/Chubbuck School District by Idaho law (33-518 and 74-106), is prohibited from commenting on the specifics regarding personnel matters.
Somewhere between the district’s good intentions and Bowden’s, however, the system appears to have broken down, and the discrepancy has created the conflict. She has hired an attorney. The District works daily to help children who are hungry, who need healthcare, who are homeless and who are neglected and/or abused.
Facebook users by the hundreds expressed outrage in response to a post this past weekend on the website that included a photo of the termination letter. She says, “I feel disgusting that this was even an issue”. A petition denouncing Bowden’s firing had earned more than 88,000 signatures by the same time. “I understand rules, but not when a child is hungry”, says resident Jennifer Otte.
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Asked if she regrets handing out the free meal, the former lunch lady told: ‘My heart hurts. “We need to change the policy or change the people making them!”
