As an alternative, the school provided his friend with just a cheese sandwich. The third grader sat down with his mom and came up with a plan to help. They would collect plastic bottles and cans, collect money from family and friends and solicit donations so that they could pay off all the negative balances for the entire school.
After just one week, Cayden was able to cover about 150 lunches, and with the help of some media attention, Cayden's kindness spurred others to act.
He and his mother have since set up an online campaign to help other students in need and have raised about 15 thousand dollars. They've already paid off two additional schools' negative lunch balances, and they hope to handle three more in the next week.
His mother Amber Melke Peters told TODAY.com, "Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this would happen. He's just a little local boy trying to do some good."
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From the comments section...from the article above.
"jc_cappa"
LESS THAN A MINUTE AGO
While I applaud this student and the others who have done the same, including all the people who donated to the "cause," it makes me kind of sick that these parents cannot help their own children. Our society has, over the last several years, become one of dependency and these families are living off government subsidies and when that's not enough...an 8-year old boy has to bail them out! When is enough, enough? The vast majority of these parents who cannot pay their children's school lunch balance are also the same ones who have too many kids, don't look for a job, bitch about Obamacare when I am subsidizing their healthcare, and the list goes on and on. It's a joke. They're teaching their kids that it's ok not to work and that someone will always bail them out. Well, the only bail out they'll need is when they are a high school dropout and they need to be bailed out of jail in a few years. Obama is a disgrace for helping to propagate this new America he has created. 2 more years to go and this has already been the WORST presidency in history - by a landslide."
I couldn't agree "more" with the commentary above.
