A couple weeks ago, a story on a national news morning show caught my attention. It featured a high school student who had reached the limit of debt on his/her lunch account and instead of the usual school lunch, received a "sandwich of shame". It was bread and cheese. Other students and parents, as well as many, many people across the United States, were outraged, using words like "mortifying" and "embarrassing" and "offensive" to describe the "humiliation" of such a thing.