cheese or peanut butter

I found this on the Democrat under ground posted by a teacher in Florida about giving children sandwiches when the parents don't pay lunch room bill.

Those who think it is about a cheese sandwich need to spend some time in classrooms and school lunchrooms with young kids. It's a punitive measure. It began that way, and it is today. It has been one of the most obvious signs here at DU how our culture has changed under the Bush administration and it's rigid conservatism. Before I retired as a teacher, I witnessed the struggle when our lunchroom at school began the "cheese sandwich" gambit. It was very obviously meant to embarrass the children whose parents were behind in their lunch payments. It was done in a harsh way very often, with the lunchroom workers pulling the kids out of line after loudly calling out their name. They presented them their "cheese sandwich" lunch so that it could not be missed by anyone in the lunchroom. After many teachers complained they toned it down a little, but there were still loud arguments with the children who just did not understand why they were being taken out of the line to be given a cheese sandwich. The lunches were cooked in large quantities. It saved nothing at all financially to prepare separate "cheese sandwich" lunches for the needy children. I knew the family backgrounds of the children I taught in 2nd grade when they started that policy. I tried to explain some of the situations to the lunchroom management. They got angry with me for standing up for the children's feelings. They reported me to the principal who told me to back off.The same thing happened to other teachers who did not like the discrimination. It was a shocking thing to everyone when it began, but I see it has become acceptable now. It never was and still is not about a cheese sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or any other kind of sandwich. It's about embarrassing children needlessly when it would be just as economically sound to feel them a regular lunch. It's a harsh conservative tactic meant to humiliate when it could be handled another way. The fact that it is accepted so easily at a Democratic forum scares me.