Posted on 07/13/2012 12:09:31 PM PDT by Lurker
Right, which is also tied in to the stories recently about schools banning kids from bringing homemade lunches “for health reasons”. In reality, they just want to force more kids to eat the “free” lunch so they can keep the gravy train from DC coming.
Dang Assitants.
lapse in ethical judgment
BZZZZZT. Wrong.
Sorry, but "lapse in ethical judgment" implies some sort of momentary failure.
This is a long-term LACK of ethical judgement, or more correctly, a DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO RIP OFF THE SYSTEM.
We simply cannot, and will not, allow any employee to break the trust that parents and children of this District place in us every day.
BZZZZZT. Wrong. Thanks for playing.
Does anybody really "place their trust" in you anymore?
People place their kids with you, because they either have, or think they have, no other choice.
LOL! oh, these guys are a riot! too funny.
School administrators will do almost anything to pump up the numbers of kids on these programs. Almost every other “aid” and “grant” program imaginable is tied directly to the percentage of kids receiving the free lunch.
The SLD alone burns through well over a couple of billion a year.
A question I’ve always had:
Here in Indiana, we have 369,000 children on the Govt breakfast and lunch program. And the schools are also open in the summer to serve breakfast and lunch even though class is not in session.
Is this amount of free food considered in the calculation of the food stamp benefits supplied to the family?
No. I the family is receiving food stamps the children are automatically placed in the lunch program.
In the state of Colorado the calculation is not considered...they do not deduct the cost of the free lunches and breakfasts from the monthly food stamp amount
This cost is peanuts ... Looks to me like real Chicago crooks are using principals as whipping boys.
Therefore I am almost certain that I am correct in my suspicions.
Principals, who don’t get mere peanuts, did this??? I don’t know what stinks more, how criminal it was or how chintzy it was.
Still, why would the principals do it. It’s almost on the level of “ha ha, I scored one” rather than making off with significant money. Still that’s so many free lunches less available for the actual needy. Bet these are liberals all too.
The article says that these were Principals making upwards of 70 grand a year. Leaving that aside, falsifying these forms is a Felony. These are Federal dollars we are talking about here.
And these crooks are being allowed to simply resign or be fired. You try falsifying a Federal aid form sometime and watch if you get to just say “sorry”, resign, and walk away.
The entire CPS is shot through with this kind of crap.
Should be sacked for stupidity....risking a six figure salary position let alone jail time over free lunches?
Terminally stupid.
Free lunch isn’t even means tested in many places.
Here in the Twin Cities you can get ‘free’ breakfast,dinner, and snack,too at some rec centers. And not just for students.
Here in Washington, the schools serve free box lunches to anyone under the age of 18. All they have to do is show up. It’s not need based or anything.
Doubtless there was a warning in the boilerplate on the form that intentional false statements to get aid would be considered a crime. And these doofuses went ahead and did it anyhow? What does a scandal like this look like to the school kids? In my day, the biggest educator scandal was teachers’ strikes. But at least they didn’t steal.
This is Washington state I gather. Oh well, that’s your state’s business.
Oh! This was surely intended to mean “assistants” not “assitants.” Although maybe they do mostly “sit” around on their, ahem, “ass” for all we know.
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