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We had a school principal here that made kids work off their lunch if they had no money. They had to wipe tables and help clean up.
A kid never had to go hungry or watch their lunch get tossed. ahhh living in AK, is pretty grand can remember Elementary school and gettin a note from the school secretary that we owed her $2 for our kid's lunch and to replenish his account yah I'd be a lil pizzed if they turned my kid away from a meal course not as pizzed as when my LPE account ran low after betting big on Denver and not getting anyone to take my calls Bambi's stock has fallen in my book. really good to see you post Bob, even if it's a post that made me want to spit.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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I feel for the kid, but what parent can't afford 40 cents? I'd LOVE to pay 40 cents for lunch.
Should have had some better family planning there....
I am getting more cold and hard headed the older I get, but I just hate .gov getting more money from me to feed, teach, house others kids...and then pay to teach em english. I agree with you, Jeff. And I agree that I, too, am getting more no nonsense as I get older. At 40 cents per lunch I'm assuming that the kid is on some kind of low income program. Feeding other people's kids through my tax dollars bothers me, but not as much as someone working the kitchen that'd rather feed the trash can than a kid, just to make a point.
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Graduating from high school in 1958 we ate in our school cafeteria; lunches 5 days a week were 10 cents daily and the chow was as good as I ate in the military....and THAT is saying something...cause US Army chow was damn hard to beat!!
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Send that family to AR!! I get notices for kids in my home room with accounts that are $20, $50, and one was $126 in the red. That's a little ridiculous!
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
For why should my freedom be judged by another man's conscience? - 1 Corinthians 10:29
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takes a real rodent to throw a kids meal away. I drove school bus in the past and I knew that a couple of the kids came from troubled homes. I would always ask (if I couldn't see) if they had a lunch. if no I'd give them my meal card, get it back on the home run and never missed it. I'm still alive today and hope they are too.
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Our policy is everyone eats. If you have money you get the regular meal. No money, you get a PBJ sandwich. No one goes hungry, but every kid in the cafeteria knows why you are eating PBJ. The accounts get taken care of pretty fast.
If they have a real financial need there are ways to deal with that. Roughly 50% of kids nationwide eat free anyway. More than that in some districts. The problem here is with families who have money, and just didn't pay.
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Kids eat too much anyway...........look at the fat little chits.
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We had a school principal here that made kids work off their lunch if they had no money. They had to wipe tables and help clean up.
A kid never had to go hungry or watch their lunch get tossed. That makes way too much common sense to work in most school systems. That principal would be summarily fired around here.
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In 2014 60% of students in my counties school system got "free" or "reduced" lunches.
In 2015 ALL students will get "free" lunch. That's right, in order to keep from humiliating those on free lunch, the taxpayers are simply going to foot the bill for all breakfasts and lunches system wide.
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Hope all is well your way,Mike. I hope to see you in October. Ya Bob, hope to see you too 
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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"I just have to say sorry to this student, sorry to the parents," he said. "We made a mistake, we need to fix it, we're sorry." That does not sound like a government employee to me. Is the food service provided by a private contractor?
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"My first instinct was to get a huge jar of pennies, and get it ready," Keys said. "I was going to take it down to the school and throw it on 'em."
He can put forth the effort to throw penny's at the school district but can't cough up the 40 cents to save his kid from embarrassment.
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If the school was truely sorry, the server would be fired in front of a school assembly.
Humiliation does wonders.
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But to REALLY put this issue in context you' have to know how many parents attempt to merely blow off their kids' lunch debts and what this loss adds up to for the school district every year.
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Birdie, You would find it hard to believe how many people had accidents and had let their insurance lapse for non payment then claimed they had never gotten a premium notice. We sent a premium notice 30 days prior to renewal, an expiration notice after the due date with no payment and finally a lapse notice. One may have gotten lost but not all three. Just askin' but did anyone try to call those policyholders? Send notice with signature required?
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"My first instinct was to get a huge jar of pennies, and get it ready," Keys said. "I was going to take it down to the school and throw it on 'em."
He can put forth the effort to throw penny's at the school district but can't cough up the 40 cents to save his kid from embarrassment. Amen.
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"I just have to say sorry to this student, sorry to the parents," he said. "We made a mistake, we need to fix it, we're sorry." That does not sound like a government employee to me. Is the food service provided by a private contractor? ??? Sounds exactly like a public school Principal to me.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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