Becky

Becky is the antiheroine of "Poor Girl Shamed for School Lunch." She is a rich bully who looks down on anyone who is poor, as do her two friends.

Becky and her friends mock Heather for her old clothes, for having to eat a free school lunch (while she and her friends have their lunches made by their families' personal chefs), for having to ride a bus to and from school (while her mother has a Tesla and more fancy cars) (and she kicks a nickel Heather dropped), and for shopping at La Guida Provinca, which is a thrift store (while she herself goes designer-shopping at Gucci). Becky poor-shames Heather and angrily asks her how poor she is in front of her own mother. Becky's mother gets upset at her. Becky says she's just telling the truth. Heather runs off upset at it. Becky's mother tells her she must never make fun of other people, but Becky justifies her behavior just because it's just "Homeless Heather," and everyone makes fun of her. Her mother won't accept this justification and asks her how she'd feel if someone made fun of her. She adds never to judge someone whose shoes she hasn't walked in first. Becky doesn't care, as they are luckily rich, and declares she will therefore never have to worry about that. Her mother disagrees with that, saying that just because she comes from a family with money doesn't make that the way they treat other people. Her mother takes away her Louis Vitton bags and sentences her to a following deprivation-replacement starting the next day: the free school lunch instead of catered lunches, catching the bus instead of having her pick her up in the Tesla, and thrift-shopping instead of designer shopping. Becky protests, but her mother dismisses them.

According to Dhar's narration, the next day, Becky is sentenced to being poor like Heather. She has to look plain and wear old clothes, eat the school lunch, be mocked and forbidden by her friends to sit with them (to her devastation), wait for the bus, be teased by her passing friends (to her humiliation), shop at the thrift store, and get seen walk out and laughed at by her friends (to her embarrassment, to the point she ran away crying). In old clothes previously worn by someone else, while sitting alone for her free lunch, she gets mocked as "Broke Becky," as her former friends walk away, unwilling to have others think they are friends with "someone like her." Only one person is willing to sit with her: Heather. Heather is aware of how it feels to get made fun of for not having much. Becky apologizes to Heather for her mockery, acknowledging you never know what others are going through without experiencing it yourself, and asks for her forgiveness. It is granted, and they both agree to catch the bus and go thrift-shopping together after school.