A new bill would cancel school lunch debt; one former student shares his story.
Vincent Montoya-Armanios remembers skipping lunch in high school because he didn't have money to pay, afraid of being publicly confronted over his school lunch debt.
The average annual school meal debt is a reported $180.60 per student, according to an Education Data survey. “‘School lunch debt’ is a term so absurd that it shouldn’t even exist,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, one of the bill's sponsors, said, adding that the legislation would"stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger.”"I didn't have any money when I was in elementary school," Montoya-Armanios, who went to school in the Bristol Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says.
"You pay after you get the food," Montoya-Armanios, who now lives in Philadelphia, recalls."You already have the food in your hands, and that's when would tell you that you have to 'speak to the manager and explain why you didn't have lunch money that day.
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