8th grader inspired by lunch shaming stories vows to eliminate $18,000 of one district's lunch debt.
A 14-year-old has pledged to eliminate the sizable lunch debt for a district of 129 schools in Texas.
Ben kicked off his initiative on GoFundMe on April 21 as part of a semester-long school project in which students dig into a community issue. "Their parents simply cannot pay it sometimes," she added."I think it's good for him to realize that not everyone has [what he has]." Tanner told"GMA" that 57 percent of the students in the district receive free meals as part of the national school lunch program -- but not all students qualify if their family's income does not meet the requirements for free and reduced price meals.
But in a matter of days, his GoFundMe page exceeded the initial goal. Ben has now raised nearly half of the district's overall lunch debt.
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