Chicago Public Schools is apologizing to a Chicago mother and her two young sons, ages 5 and 6, after they were denied breakfast because they came to schools wearing the wrong kind of shoes. CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports.
The Nicholson brothers only grab a quick snack before heading to class because they qualify for a full free breakfast at Adam Powell Grade School. It’s something they look forward to every day, and it hurt when they were recently turned away.
They were wearing black athletic shoes. The boys told their mom that the assistant principal, Angela Peagler wouldn’t let them eat because their shoes didn’t fit the school uniform, which calls for a regular black dress shoe.
“I felt sad. We’re always supposed to have breakfast,” first-grader Noah Nicholson says.
Noah and his brother Niko, who is in kindergarten, went to class hungry and didn’t eat until lunch. (read more)
