Just for a moment, put yourself in a child's shoes. Forget your knowledge of household and school finance; forget any liberal or conservative ideologies. Forget the “don’t have kids you can’t afford” comments, in this scenario we are several years too late for birth control, oops! Also forget the judgmental, “the parents probably smoke, drink and have the latest cell phone” comments, forget all that grown-up stuff, just be a kid for a moment. Put yourself in the shoes of that 4 year-old girl who had worked her way to the back of the breakfast line, likely because she knew what was coming. You may not be able to identify U.S. currency with any accuracy but you've been to the store with your parents and you are aware of the relationship between money and goods or services. You typically enter your PIN into a keypad in order to get your school meals and may never have seen the actual exchange of money in a school cafeteria and if you have, you probably didn't understand the relationship between the money and a tray of food. In this scenario your last meal was some 12 or 13 hours ago and you are hungry. The smell of the hot breakfast that awaits you seems to fill the school, only growing stronger as you approach the cafeteria. You can hear the happy chatter of children dining, a bit too loud for the principal’s taste but happy just the same. You know that you will soon have that satisfying feeling of a full belly. The line advances, now you can actually see the food being served today, oh the anticipation! Finally you have a meal tray in your hands, you've made the milk and fruit selections that will accompany your breakfast entree. All you can think about now is how hungry you are. Just when you don't think that you can wait another second without chomping into a French toast stick, you reach the cashier. You enter your PIN as always, hoping that today there will be adequate funds in your meal account, unfortunately you have no such luck, the cashier simply says, "You have no money" as she reaches down to retrieve and dump your meal tray. You are ill equipped to do battle with an adult who towers over you and for some reason speaks of "money". The only response you can muster is the tears that begin streaming down your face; unfortunately, the cashier appears unmoved by such a weak defense. My question to you is this, HAVE YOU JUST BEEN BULLIED? Maybe not in the traditional sense, perhaps there is no bruiser on the playground taking your lunch or lunch money, no, in this case it is an adult who is working for the school in some capacity who has taken away your meal tray. The question stands . . . from the perspective of a 4 year-old, HAVE YOU BEEN BULLIED OR NOT?