AT A GLANCE

• School lunch lady fired for giving free lunches to needy student

• Dianne Brame, 60, a school cafeteria worker at Hudson Elementary School in Missouri, had been sneaking lunches to a fourth grader who had no money

• She said, "Kids can be cruel to see this kid eating cheese sandwiches day after day after day...And my heart just couldn’t tolerate that, so I broke the rule”

• When the community learned about Brame’s acts of kindness, a huge outpouring came forth and she was reinstated by her employers