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	A school in the US was forced to apologise after a photo showing their method of punishing late children went viral.</p>
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	Laura Hoover caused outrage online when she posted two photos showing what had happened to her six-year-old grandson when he was late to his elementary school.</p>
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	Hunter was made to eat his lunch behind a screen, separated from the rest of his peers - with what appears to be a paper cup with the letter &#39;D&#39; written on it nearby.</p>
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	In the Facebook post - which has been shared over 130,000 times - Laura writes that Hunter was &quot;one minute late&quot; due to his mother&#39;s car troubles.</p>
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	She writes that it&#39;s not the first time the school have punished him in this way for what the school describes as &#39;chronic tardiness&#39;:</p>
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	&quot;His momma&#39;s car sometimes doesn&#39;t like to start right up. Sometimes he&#39;s a couple of minutes late to school.</p>
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	&quot;They have done this to him 6 times for something that is out of this baby&#39;s control! They make a mockery of him in front of the other students! His mom found him there, crying, and took him home for the day.&quot;</p>
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	After being inundated with complaints by phone and on social media, Lincoln Elementary School issued a statement saying they had revised their policy and that late children would now be made to do &#39;catch-up work&#39; in a separate, supervised classroom.</p>
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	Hunter&#39;s parents have received an apology from the school principal and have been reassured that it will not happen again.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/real-life/school-apologises-for-forcing-late-child-to-eat-lunch-behind-a-screen-315741.html">http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/real-life/school-apologises-for-forcing-late-child-to-eat-lunch-behind-a-screen-315741.html</a></p>
