Lunches seized from kids in debt

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@91MR2

Says they were given milk and fruit…odds are that was more nutritional than what was being served anyways…and still another sign of how pussy this society has become…the kids were “traumatized” the article says…shut the fuck up…

I tend to agree with you, but not this time around…

You don’t publicly rip food and throw it away in front of a child who did nothing wrong. To a young child, I can see it as a somewhat traumatic event. The school handled this in the worst way possible IMO.

[deebo]

Should they still let kids go on a field trip because the parents forgot to send in the money ?
They just keep blowing it off and pushing their luck until something like this happens

It’s not like they are over due by one lunch. They probably owe for the whole year

[91MR2]

@maxwell

I tend to agree with you, but not this time around…

You don’t publicly rip food and throw it away in front of a child who did nothing wrong. To a young child, I can see it as a somewhat traumatic event. The school handled this in the worst way possible IMO.

I was more speaking to the way the article was written.

[2TurboZ]

Forget throwing the food out…you wanna send a message…have Antonio and Tito break their little fingers so they cant eat until they pay up.

[deebo]

@2TurboZ

Forget throwing the food out…you wanna send a message…have Antonio and Tito break their little fingers so they cant eat until they pay up.

This

[JayS]

Man, I’ve forgotten to update the balance on my kids lunch plan. I just get a note home as a reminder and when I log on I see the balance is negative and I drop another hundro in there.

Definitely seems like they could have handled that a lot better. You’re talking about a lunch that’s a couple bucks not a $100 meal at The Chop House.

[ultradriver10000]

Bet the parents still don’t pay for the kids lunches.

No money no food grow up bitches.

[XwalkerX]

@Spam16v

FACT: Public humiliation of a small child in a peer intensive environment will emotionally scar a child.

My wife’s a teacher, all her friends are teachers. Most of them at one point in time have had to reach into their own pockets for a child to eat. There is no excuse for this, it is a CHILD, with no ability to feed itself.

^ this is where i stand.

@BOBBYGRV

If you don’t pay your utility bill and they shut off your water, are you going to call and complain to them that your kid didn’t get to shower before going to school? There is plenty of blame to go around here and none for the kids.

Stupid people making stupid decisions.

a bit off topic but you would be surprised what some of the general public feels entitled to.
during my VERY short stint of working at Geico i would handle calls from the tri-state area which basically 9 out of 10 calls went something like this

-stupid phone intro…how can i help you?

“why did you cancel my insurance?”

-i see we have sent several notices advising that your coverage would be canceled because you have been past due for 3 months

“yeah but now i dont have insurance and my license is suspended”

-correct the policy has been canceled

“but i need insurance! let me talk to your supervisor…”

…and so on and so forth

:bloated:

[BOBBYGRV]

@XwalkerX

a bit off topic but you would be surprised what some of the general public feels entitled to.
during my VERY short stint of working at Geico i would handle calls from the tri-state area which basically 9 out of 10 calls went something like this

-stupid phone intro…how can i help you?

“why did you cancel my insurance?”

-i see we have sent several notices advising that your coverage would be canceled because you have been past due for 3 months

“yeah but now i dont have insurance and my license is suspended”

-correct the policy has been canceled

“but i need insurance! let me talk to your supervisor…”

…and so on and so forth

:bloated:

I hear ya on that, I’m calling some of my own customers on a monthly basis to pay their insurance bills. I usually end up dropping those people since I spend more time chasing their payments than getting new customers.

I guess I just feel like the school should have had a plan in place to prevent this from happening. Was it really that big of a deal that these kids were eating and it couldn’t have been handled without taking their food away? If the parents owe the money, fix the system and prevent them from being able to fall behind or send their bill into collections and collect via wage garnishment if the parents decided not to pay.

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[XwalkerX]

i dont think it would be news worthy if they would have just given the children fruit and milk to begin with INSTEAD of making such a fucking absurd scene of giving them lunches then taking them away and throwing them out.

[Onyx_Z32]

The school screwed up and I think that article is old because they’ve admitted fault.

• School didn’t notify all of the parents
• Parents of kids who were notified were not given ANY time frame to respond
• Some of the parents who WERE notified we actually CURRENT on their payments and the school notified the wrong people
• Some kids who had POSITIVE balances on their accounts had their lunches thrown away as well

I’m all for deadbeats being cut off, but the kids had the food in their hands and it was simply thrown away because it couldn’t be given to anyone else. (At least they followed that food service rule, lol.)

Several people at that school need to be fired…

… Oh wait, it’s a public school :silent:

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@BOBBYGRV

… I guess I just feel like the school should have had a plan in place to prevent this from happening…

They did. It wasn’t followed and the employee(s) involved were incompetent.

[Terry]

Be interested to see just how far behind these accounts were and if the parents actually got notifications or just ignored them. It’s BS if it was for $5 and they didn’t get any notifications but I can see some parents just ignoring them and letting the balance get fairly negative just because they didn’t think the school should do something like this.

If the system was working correctly then I think this is a good lesson for the kids that if you don’t pay for shit you don’t get something. Of course this ended up teaching them that if you play the victim card then you can get out of it.

[cretinx]

[Minglor]

@Spam16v

FACT: Public humiliation of a small child in a peer intensive environment will emotionally scar a child.

Yep.

Hell, at some schools kids qualify for free lunches due to low income of the parents.

[Blue_Eyed_Devil]

@MY OLD SCHOOL FATHER

FACT: Public humiliation of a small child in a peer intensive environment will build character.

FIXED…

J/K

[cougarspeed]

@cretinx

+Karma

[mechanicalmadness]

Ya fuck that. Hey kid. Your parents didn’t pay the bill so we are taking your food and tossing it in the trash. Furthermore… We will give you milk and fruit. Seems legit lol.

So the food has already been paid for by the school and cannot be returned to “stock” so they throw it out? Anyone else see a problem there?

I’d be pissed if this was in New York State. Specially since I pay school tax and have no children in school. Hmmm… Maybe I should stop paying taxes for a service I’m not using. Oh wait… I can’t.

[L8APEX1]

@mechanicalmadness

we are taking your food and tossing it in the trash. Furthermore… We will give you milk and fruit.

They should do this to those little fat fuckers.