Students with no lunch credit told to throw lunches away>>MOD WARNING<<

what are you talking about, it's republicans that want to make sure no child gets a "free lunch"

 

My only point was my child is lucky to enjoy this.... it will serve him well in his future as he moves through school. We have him in our own little Ivy league program.

 

Thats my point.

If the parent had kept up ont he lunch account this would have been a non-issue

It states he asked at the beginning of the year about the balance and they would send him a statement. No more than a few days should have gone by without him touching base again to ask about the balance knowing this was for his childs lunch.

The only thing wrong here is that they gave them NO lunch. But this is the first I have ever heard of this happening. Most schools that I know of give a sandwich in place of the hot meal if the funds are gone.

Thats what parents do...or should do....make sure what needs to be taken care of, is taken care.

 

I do not blame the parents for their children going hungry. I blame Whitsons. You must have the usual reading comprehension problem that I see often from the Right.

 

I want them to pay for it like I have to pay for my kids.


Inability to pay /= refusal to pay.

if you have a true inability, you will qualify for reduced/free lunch. if you don't qualify, send money with your kids. It's not like we're asking parents to be involved in their child's education or anything...

 

Well, it is not the point of the thread or Fox's reporting. Some idiot company decides to throw away food and not feed kids because an account was low or behind.

The reporting was about that and not about parents.

 

Yeah, I don't get that part either. Amid all this noise, nobody's talking about kids bringing their own lunches, as if the only way to get a lunch is if you buy it from the school. When I was a kid I felt kind'a geeky hauling around a lunch-bucket, but all the other kids were doing it, so it wasn't that bad a deal... just a nuisance having to carry the bucket... but these days all kids all have backpacks, so what's the big deal?

Aside from all that, there's still a workaround to all this... let the local churches set up a table of simple soup and sandwiches for the kids who's folks can't afford a school-lunch.

They'd probably get slammed for openly advertizing it as an alternative to the school lunch program - especially if the school's lunch program has been outsourced to a private caterer - plus the cons would have fits about the kids not "earning" the lunches, so set it up as a noon-hour choir program, where the deal is, the kids line up on stands and sing a few uplifiting songs, which gives them some musical practice, so they've "earned" it, and when the practice is over they're fed soup and sandwiches from the table, because they couldn't be expected to sing well if their tummys were full, so it's only fair to feed them once they've finished their practice.

The school cafeteria would have a fit, because if it's operated inhouse, the cafeteria workers would gripe about the choir-food being better, which you know darn-good-and-well it would be if fixed voluntarily by a bunch of church-ladies, or if the school-cafeteria is outsourced, then the private-catering company would gripe about choir-lunches cutting into their profits.

As for the churches paying for it... come on... let's face it... soup-and-sandwiches is healthy and cheep.

 

I wish more parents would take the time and prepare well rounded meals for their children to take to school. Its better for you than most of the junk that they serve at schools.

 

Who? The kids? Punish the parents if you want but do not let kids go hungry for the rest of the school day.

 

I refuse to eat the junk at our school, I bring my own lunch myself. But our district got a grant that provides free meals to every kid in the district. I still have to pay for mine though.... it's not worth 2.90

 

Yeah, when I was in school I mostly eat cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken fries, and other nasty junk.

 

he's lucky, it's a way of life that's being lost...we try to do the same for our kids, the youngest is 13 his mother gives him cooking lessons and we insisted he take cooking courses at school...he can provide for himself should he need to...

 

My dad used to send me to school with $20 bucks on Monday morning, lunch money to last me the whole week. He did that in order to teach me how to be responsible with money. There are potential life lessons that can be taught in any given situation.

You don't have to be present in your child's school in order to be a part of their education. A parent's responsibility begins where a school teacher's lesson plans end.

 

instant gratification for our fat and salt cravings...so easy to be addicted to and so very hard to break away from...

 

Exactly. My dad was a big-game hunter, and we had a neighbor who was a sausage-maker, so dad would pay the guy to turn the scraps left over after butchering into sausages, so I got sandwiches made with elk and deer sausage... mmm. No way you could get that from an institutional caffeteria.

 

Yeah I enjoy eating "wild game" as well. I make pot roast with venison its pretty tasty. The biggest thing IMO is getting kids of all of the processed food with sugars and other nasties. Fresh veggies, a good source of protein, and just a little bit of whole wheat bread can do the body wonders.

 

I brown bagged it I never had a school cafeteria lunch-sandwich, egg, fruit a cookie and water ...my son does the same I did but once in awhile he'll buy a treat of some sort from the lunch counter..

 

I don't see what is inherently wrong with teaching children that nothing is free.

Has no one heard of the economic theorem "There is no such thinig as a free lunch."

Whenever you think you are getting something for nothing, look again&#8212;someone, somewhere, somehow is paying for it. Behind every free lunch there is a hidden cost to be accounted for.

The mistake was tossing out food, but I see nothing wrong with denying the children the food they did not pay for and were not part of the welfare system of low income school lunch programs.

Look at the bigger picture.

You may regard this as callous and harsh, but the economic viability of sustaining a massive entitlement culture will bankrupt the government...I can promise you, your very physical safety is at stake if an economic collapse happens...civil unrest will be a precursor to violence.

Instilling in children the understanding that adults work for what they have, will go a long way in the long run.

Go ahead, insult me...call me callous, mean and a grumpy old man...live in your fantasy worlds where everything is free...where money grows on trees. Coddle your children to expect that in life everything is free! You can spare them now or bury them later...children must understand the principle of working for one's means of support. The economic future of America depends upon it. The culture of entitlement will bury the USA 6 feet under.

 

The lack of common sense in these liberal run schools flies right off the chart. If they're not suspending an 8-9 yr old kid for chewing a pop tart into a scary 'gun' and other insane reasons, then they're doing away w/a gifted students program b/c there's not enuf kids of different races in the class and now this.... kids w/not enuf $ in account had to throw away their lunch........yes! Good food in the trash barrel makes so much more sense than the hungry kids eating it.....

Way to go, liberals! Anymore brilliant ideas on how to deal w/kids issues?!

 

is that a law carved in stone somewhere? it's just a cliché...

but that's not the way we as humans evolved, we survived as a specie because we looked after each others basic requirements, the procurement and sharing of food, that is what bound us together as a society...this is food the necessity of life, not a new iphone or xbox...

throwing out food is very stupid, I give my kids hell when they waste food...and use my own cliché "there are kids in africa who are happy if they get one meal a day and you threw enough out to feed an entire family"

a simple solution is to increase school fees/taxes and give everyone a free meal, exempt those parents who are in need from paying so their children don't need the stigma of a stamp on their hand or some other humiliation...there's no lesson of value to be learned by humiliating children for the crime of being poor and hungry...

 

Very well said Marine1.I'm so glad my kids are grown and no longer in school.I'm and old fart but in my day schools did not let any child go hungry.

 

Well, I didn't agree w/you about stamping the kid, but you're right - this is a helluva lot worse. At least the stamped kids were given nutrition to get thru the rest of the day........

 

Yup. Liberal Land w/a capital "L"..........

 

Right... so... you grab the food from the kid, throw it in the garbage, and holler at him to go home and pass the lecture on to his parents that they'd better pay up because there ain't no such thing as a free-lunch.

That's called being "Fodder for the ACLU".

 

The economic theory that &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch&#8221; is a widely adopted belief. Someone must pay for whatever goods or services are provided, regardless of the mechanism used.

You've been indoctrinated into the Euro-Socialist propaganda model that Socialism is sustainable.

Talk to Greece.