AURORA, Colo. – Former Dakota Valley Elementary School kitchen supervisor Della Curry couldn’t care less that she was recently fired from her job.

It’s the needy students in the school’s lunch line she’s worried about.

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The 35-year-old mother of two was fired by the Cherry Creek School District last Friday for giving away lunches to students who couldn’t afford them, CBS Denver reports.

Instead of serving students a hamburger bun with a slice of cheese and a milk – the district’s go to lunch for students who can’t pay – Curry gave some students a full tray of food, and she’s not apologizing for her actions.

“I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn’t have enough money for lunch. Yes, I gave her lunch,” Curry told CBS Denver. “I own I broke the law. The law needs to change.”

Curry told the media she’s paid for lunches for students out of her own pocket in the past. Like most public schools, Dakota Valley Elementary offers free and reduced price lunches to students through the National School Lunch Program, which limits enrollment to families with a household income of $31,000 or $45,000, respectively.

But some students who don’t qualify for lunch assistance are often stuck eating a bun and cheese, and Curry doesn’t think that’s right.

“Kids whose parents make too much money to qualify, but a lot of times they don’t have enough money to eat,” she told CBS Denver.

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“It is policy to never give out free food … that is all fine and dandy until you have little kids not on the free and reduced program and their account goes negative,” Curry told the Denver Post.

“I knew the whole time it was a firing offense,” she said. “Somebody told my supervisors what I had done, and it is immediate termination. I will take that if we can change the rules.”

District officials wouldn’t comment on the situation, citing state privacy laws on personnel matter, but did release a general statement about the school lunch policy.

“The law does not require the school district to provide a meal to children who have forgotten their lunch money – that is a district decision,” the statement read, according to the Post.

Apparently, in the Cherry Creek School District, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, at least not a nutritious free lunch.

“According to our practice, we provide hot meals to students the first three times they forget their lunch money and charge their parents’ accounts,” according to the statement. “The fourth time, we provide a cheese sandwich and milk. No child is ever allowed to go without lunch.”

Curry said she was hired as the kitchen manager at Dakota Valley about a year ago, and has given away about 20 free lunches to children since that time.

“While I know that what I did was legally wrong, I do not feel bad about it and I would do it again in a heartbeat,” Curry posted to Facebook, according to the Daily Mail.

“I will never understand how the ‘best’ country in the world considers a cheese sandwich to be adequate nutrition for a child. I will never understand how one of the richest countries in the world cannot provide lunch for its children.”

Dakota Valley parent Darnell Hill told CBS Denver he appreciates that Curry helped his son when he forgot his lunch money, and doesn’t think the kitchen manager deserves the boot.

“Do something different than fire her,” he said. “She’s trying to help.”