(WSBT) – A New Hampshire school cafeteria worker’s kindness may have got her fired. Bonnie Kimball tells the Valley News she was terminated March 28 by her employer, a vendor that supplies food to the Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan. It came a day after she gave a student lunch, even though he couldn’t pay for it. Kimball says that when the student’s account showed no funds, she quietly told him “‘tell (your) mom you need money,'” and provided a lunch.
She claims a manager just asked what was on the boy’s plate and walked away. “It was my life for five years. I went and I took care of another family,” Kimball told the newspaper. “You don’t just lose a family member, be OK and move on.” A spokeswoman for Manchester-based Cafe Services said in a statement Thursday it “would never authorize an employee to not feed a student or staff member a meal.” The spokeswoman would only say an employee “would not be let go because they provided this lunch to a student.” READ MORE
When those who fired her stand in final judgement, the heavenly Principal just might give them the same mercy/understand they gave her. Don’t they ever think what if that were their child and they had forgotten, didn’t realize or just plain didn’t have money for that day’s lunch? As soon as their child got home and told them, they’d be furious saying the school knows I would have paid the lunch account up. Well then maybe they should swallow their pride, rehire, apologize and restore the worker to her original standing, else face a harsher punishment come judgement time.