The Lunch Trays at Northside Elementary

In 2019, a school district in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania made national news when cafeteria workers were instructed to throw away the hot lunches of children whose families owed meal debts — and replace them with a single cold cheese sandwich. The kids watched their trays get dumped in the trash right in front of them. A local businessman named Todd Carmichael heard about it and wrote a check for $22,000 to cover every outstanding lunch debt in the district.…