Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services
Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services
- September 19, 2024
- Kelley Fong, sociology, The Guardian, Sept. 19, 2024
Kelley Fong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services …. said many educators and mandatory reporters that she talked to viewed CPS as a tool for getting parents to comply with school policies. “If you think about carrots and sticks, CPS is maybe the primary stick that they really have to get parents to do what they want.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/unpaid-school-lunch-debt-child-welfare-services.
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