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Dalene Bowden, School Cafeteria Worker, Fired After Giving Hungry Student Free Lunch
FFS, words pale to describe this.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dalene-bowden-school-cafeteria-worker-fired-after-giving-hungry-student-n485181
A school cafeteria worker in Idaho says she was fired after giving a hungry middle school student a free lunch.
Dalene Bowden, a server at Irving Middle School in Pocatello, told NBC affiliate KPVI in Idaho that she gave the hot meal to a 12-year-old girl with no lunch money whom said she was hungry on Dec. 15.
"I handed her the food and said, 'Here, we'll take care of it in a minute,"' Bowden told the station. She then offered to pay the $1.70 cost of the lunch.
Instead, Bowden said, her supervisor placed her on leave — and on Monday, Bowden received a registered letter from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District informing her she had officially been fired for theft of school property, according to the Idaho Statesman.
"My heart hurts. I truly loved my job, and I can't say that I wouldn't do it again," Bowden, who worked in the school cafeteria for three years, told the station.
"I handed her the food and said, 'Here, we'll take care of it in a minute,"' Bowden told the station. She then offered to pay the $1.70 cost of the lunch.
Instead, Bowden said, her supervisor placed her on leave — and on Monday, Bowden received a registered letter from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District informing her she had officially been fired for theft of school property, according to the Idaho Statesman.
"My heart hurts. I truly loved my job, and I can't say that I wouldn't do it again," Bowden, who worked in the school cafeteria for three years, told the station.
