School staffer allegedly made girl eat from trash

[Jilly_in_VA]

A Northeast Ohio family says it is painful to watch a video, just released, showing a 9-year-old girl being forced to eat food out of a school cafeteria trash can.

The Lorain City School District released the heavily-blurred video Wednesday afternoon.

A cafeteria monitor and the school’s principal ended up being fired over the incident.

According to the little girl’s attorney, watching the video brought back all the feelings of humiliation and embarrassment she felt right after the incident, which will eventually be heard in federal court.

“What we see is a student finish with her lunch … again, a student finish with her lunch and she goes to throw the lunch away like hundreds and thousands of students across the country do every day,” said Jared Klebanow, one of the attorneys for the girl’s family.

https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/video-shows-ohio-cafeteria-monitor-allegedly-force-9-year-old-to-eat-from-trash/

[amaico]

1. This is a crime

She could have gotten sick.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The food was reportedly packaged and unopened, but that's not the point. The bullying is the point.

[brush]

3. What gets into an adult's mind to bully a child like that?

She got fired, and she deserved to be fired.

[halfulglas]

4. Unfortunately she's probably thinks it's her job to "teach her a lesson" the hard way.

The correct procedure would have been to send a note home to her parents if she thought it was so bad or give them a choice to even load it on her tray. You don't bully a child to eat something.

[LisaL]

5. We have so much obesity in this country.

If this child didn't want to eat her waffles, that should have been it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Jesus Christ, fear of obesity is not the reason to not force a child to eat.

[Walleye]

6. Cafeteria monitor didn't want to see it go to waste, she should've eaten it