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The government schools are so tolerant and understanding.
If you have a $0 or negative balance, then it’s not “your” lunch. It’s yours when you pay for it. Up to that point, it belongs to the cafeteria.
I agree it was handled wrong.
That being said, why is there a deficit in their accounts? If the parents don’t have money, surely they are getting welfare and can make a lunch using the food purchased with food stamps.
This crap never happened when I was in school. The poor kids got free lunches- maybe 5-10% of the kids did. The rest of us brought bagged lunches or lunches in a lunchbox or paid money for our food. Or we did without.
Back in ancient times when I was a kid, if you didn’t have money you didn’t even get in line at the cafeteria. You brought a brown bag from home and ate outside.
This is what happens when public “schools” become daycare centers.
So who’s getting fired over this?
That’s what I thought. Chris Christie should have promoted everyone involved in the Bridge-gate scandal, just to be consistent with how things are done now.
I believe many of these parents just did not know that their kid’s account was low/negative on money. They just need to go back to the “pay at the window” policy. No more of these accounts, especially if parents/kids can’t keep track of the account. It was a little cruel to serve the kids and then take it from them...
With a national debt >$17,000,000,000,000, what difference does it make?
Outrageous! Whatever happened to a note to the parents?
Must... have... free... LUNCHES!!!
This must be their new class being held in the cafeteria—
Economics 101
Chapter One: There is no free lunch, Alice.
Oliver Twist: Please sir, I want some more.
Mr. Bumble: What?
Oliver Twist: Please sir, I want some...
Oliver Twist: more.
Mr. Bumble: More?!?!?!?
These people should be embarrassed, by only by their own behavior.
When my twin daughters started school, I explained to them that, by the time they were school age, they had eaten approximately five thousand meals since they were born. Therefore, it was their responsibility to remember they had to eat that day, and that THEY were responsible for keeping track of their lunch accounts or making sure they had a lunch.
......and if they couldn't remember something so simplistic as eating, they deserved to go hungry.
Do those parents have beer and soft drinks in the refrigerator? Do those moms who can’t be bothered to pay for the school lunch program go to the beauty shop? It’s not the taxpayers duty to feed anyone’s children but their own.
Child abuse.