Second Helpings

Lunch Lady Who Fed Hungry Kid Gets Her Job Back

Back on the hot line.
Back on the hot line. Photo: KSDK

Dianne Brame, the Missouri elementary-school lunch lady who was allegedly fired from her job last week because she gave a fourth-grade boy two months’ worth of free lunches, is now back on the job, KSDK reports. Brame told the television news station she had been confronted by Chartwells, the food-service company that has a cafeteria contract with the school district, after her co-worker reported that she had been giving away free food. Brame acknowledged breaking the rules but said she was just trying to prevent other students from bullying the unnamed boy, whose enrollment in the school’s program had lapsed. Chartwells tells the TV station that Brame hadn’t been fired and she was back on the job at Hudson Elementary School, adding in a statement that the company was “pleased to have resolved this misunderstanding.” [KSDK, Earlier]

Lunch Lady Who Fed Hungry Kid Gets Her Job Back