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.
Then why serve it to the kid only to take it away a few minutes later?
As much as it sucks for the kids, it avoids setting a mental precedent that you can still get things for free.
Put the onus on the parents to be more responsible.
Correct-—but to throw away food that taxpayers are providing shows a complete disrespect for the taxpayer, IMO.
Here in N Nevada, we are bombarded weekly, if not daily about donating to the food banks so the ‘hungry’ can get fed.
When I see examples of those who are going to the food banks to get food and they are women who are approaching the weight of an NFL tackle, I lose any sympathy I might have had.
I agree. The government worker who handed the lunch to the child should be charged with theft of government property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Um, these are little kids, not adults in a restaurant. It’s ridiculous to treat them this way, and equally ridiculous to throw the food away.
Just wasteful and sinful all the way around.
Maybe, but taking the food away from the kids and trashing ti is just wrong. They should record the negative balances and then just bill the parents for the difference, enforceable through liens or such.
Bingo.