Parents claim school 'bullied' child, trashed lunch over past due account

WAVE3.COM ^ | May 28, 2015 | Connie Leonard

[Morgana]

BEDFORD, KY (WAVE) – Several parents are fired up after hearing a student's hot lunch was dumped in the trash in front of her classmates because her lunch account was past due.

Parents claim Bedford Elementary School did something it preaches against: In their words, "bullying" the child, not to mention wasting food to embarrass her.

On May 20 an elementary school lunch was packed with a hidden punch a child never saw coming.

"Someone came and took her lunch while she was sitting there with her friends and everybody else," said the girl's aunt, Leslie Chilton, who also happens to be the Bedford Elementary PTO Treasurer.

Chilton said it would be embarrassing for any child who has no idea their lunch account had a negative balance.

"An actual employee told me that afternoon because I was at school," she said of the incident." It was awful to think about her being there, sitting there and she was crying. She's a shy girl anyway, she's 10 years old and she's knows what's going on."

[metmom]

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[wintertime]

Government does so by bullying.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's what laws are. They are the threat of police and court action.

And...That is why I consistently post that behind every government teacher in this nation stands an armed policeman. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!)

That **is ** what compulsory schooling laws are! The threat of armed police and court action against the parent, child, or taxpayer who resists the will of the people's re-education committee ( oop’s school board).

Before any law is enacted one should ask, “ Would I support this if my mom, brother, daughter, husband, etc., were shot through the head if they politely resisted?”

[wintertime]

So?...Just exactly what did you do. Get mad? If so, in the end they rolled their eyes as you left the office and shrugged their shoulders.

[wintertime]

Black?

[txrefugee]

Many school authorities would have made fine Gestapo agents had they lived during the Third Reich in Germany. They get their jollies from bullying children, because adults would fight back.

[ExCTCitizen]

When I went to school, I brought school lunch maybe 100 times. Most of the times, I bought my lunch in a brown paper bag or I went home for lunch. (I was 1000 feet from school from K to 8th grade.).

Does anybody bring lunch to school anymore?

[Morgana]

Some schools don’t allow it. Some send offending notes home to parents stating the lunch they provided for their child was not good enough and have gone as far enough to throw those lunches away. I’m almost sure Metmom has pinged those stories out.

Personally I feel it’s my business what I feed my kid. Too bad if the kid next to her/him is allergic to peanut butter. My kid loves it.

[SamAdams76]

When did school lunches become such a focus?

When I went to school, everybody brought their own lunches packed at home in either a brown paper bag or a shiny metal lunchbox with your favorite TV show on it (okay, let's get this one out of the way, I had a Partridge Family lunchbox).

I don't think I had a hot lunch option in my school until 9th grade and even then, most people would bring their own because it was cheaper.

Typically we'd bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Or peanut butter and "fluff". This was before some kid got allergic to peanut butter and peanut butter was banned for everybody everywhere.

Why couldn't that kid be allergic to carrots or celery so those items could be banned instead? I hated it when my mother put those in my lunchbox, usually wrapped in Saran Wrap.

We'd also find a banana or an apple in our lunchbox. Maybe a twinkie, which I would immediately trade for somebody's homemade brownie or chocolate chip cookies.

For those who were fortunate enough to have candy bars in their lunchboxes, that was like hard currency! Like cigarettes in prison, those with candy bars to trade could practically name their own price.

My thermos was always full of milk which would be mostly warm by lunchtime. But sometimes somebody would have some packets of chocolate powder I could trade for, so I could at least make chocolate milk out of it.

[metmom]

Those were the days.....

And can you imagine it?

We SURVIVED!!!!

[buckeye49]

You have not met her parents! An apology was issued. They purposely let her run over on her lunch bill to see if it would happen again and it did not.

[Lizavetta]

Does anybody bring lunch to school anymore?

That parents don't feel it's their responsibility to feed their children astounds me. They have the money for an iPhone and manicures and receive food stamps and welfare but they can't manage to pack a lunch for their children.

Which to me means they don't give a damn as long as the taxpayers are feeding their children for them.