{"id":3515,"date":"2024-01-11T00:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2024-01-11T00:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:27:53","slug":"6-year-old-boy-forced-to-eat-lunch-behind-a-screen-because-his-parents-dropped-him-off-1-minute-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=3515","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old boy forced to eat lunch behind a screen because his parents dropped him off 1 minute late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Cmelo, a six-year-old at Lincoln Elementary School in Grants Pass, Oregon, faced an unjust situation when his mother\u2019s car broke down, causing him to arrive a few minutes late. Despite it being beyond their control, Hunter knew detention awaited him, which left him in tears.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6930-300x192.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6930-300x192.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6930.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Nicole Garloff, Hunter\u2019s mother, checked on him during lunch, she was shocked to find him isolated behind a white partition with a \u201cD\u201d cup symbolizing detention. This punishment was particularly hard on Hunter, who was rarely late.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6931-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6931-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6931.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicole shared a photo of her son\u2019s punishment on social media, leading to over 75,000 shares and public outrage over the school\u2019s detention policy. Many criticized the school\u2019s handling of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In a heartwarming turn of events, the community rallied to support the family. Local businesses, an auto dealer, and Bill Meyer provided the family with a new car and covered maintenance costs. They even gave them a $100 gas card.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6932-300x264.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6932-300x264.webp 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_6932.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s father, Mark Cmelo, expressed his amazement and gratitude for the community\u2019s support. Nicole hoped the story would show Hunter that people care and come together to help those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Cmelo, a six-year-old at Lincoln Elementary School in Grants Pass, Oregon, faced an unjust situation when his mother\u2019s car broke down, causing him to arrive a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}