that making poor kids sweep floors just so they can learn that "there's no free lunch" is punishing the kids for the poverty of their parents. Say Dad lost his job, the family is broke, so their little 7-year-old in second grade has to do some work to get lunch, to teach the kid a lesson?? And what lesson would that be - that if your family falls on hard times you have to be punished and humiliated?

Kingston should be sweeping floors somewhere, or better yet, scrubbing gas station toilets with a toothbrush, to pay for his lunch.