Dear editor,
I follow the news about Iola because I am an alumna of Iola High School.
This week, I noticed a post on Facebook listing the requirements to allow students to attend prom.
I can understand not being suspended from school and even having passing grades in core classes as requirements. But to keep a student from attending prom because they have unpaid lunch bills is so terribly discriminatory.
Kids whose parents have money don’t have unpaid lunch bills. Poor kids like I was are certainly far more likely to.
I…
