Sixteen-year-old Dominic Grant was getting lunch at the school cafeteria when he was humiliated in front of his classmates. A cafeteria worker went up to him, took his tray, and threw away his perfectly good food.
The reason?
He owed the cafeteria less than $5 for previously unpaid lunches.
“It was really embarrassing,” Dominic told CNN. “Especially in front of the whole lunch room. They took my plate away and said I didn’t have enough to eat today.”
It’s one thing to remind a student of a small debt. But it’s quite another to throw away food, humiliate a student in front of their friends, and send them to class hungry.
When Dominic’s mother, Keown, heard about it, she was shocked. She marched down to the school and did something that left everyone speechless.
First, she paid her son’s debt. But then she went further. She paid of all of the lunch debt of all of the students in the entire school. And her $200 act of kindness ensured that that no other student would be shamed or go hungry for lack of money.
Now I just wish that all schools saw the situation like Keown did.
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