Saving the M and caring for a baby

[25yearsmlc]

so dueinMay, this is just curiosity

why not just let the boy go through the line?

i dont get that, he's autistic, and therefore his routines are extremely important to him, thats how he maintains understanding/connection/peace with his world.

why not just put his food from home on a tray a let him walk through the line?

Curious about that too. Is there some lesson that the school wants to teach

or is it basically a life skill (called adapting) he has to gain so they want to encourage it and foster it so much that they can't just let the kid go through the line?

Sidenote but relevant...when I was in school they had a line for kids with assistance for lunches. I think it mortified the poorer kids to be in that line but fiinally

we had the same line and the lunch ladies figured it out at the register so kids were not embarrassed.

HOWEVER, when the program got cut more deeply (what's new?),
a lot of poorer kids began to bring their lunches and it was obviously a financial reason. Their lunches were...rough...

Then they were embarrassed not to be in the line buying their lunches...

is it possible the boy knows that it's financial and is ashamed?

Geez, I ache for him.