Chobani CEO offers to pay student lunch debts in Rhode Island school district - Sensationalist Headlines

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/443106-chobani-ceo-offers-to-pay-student-lunch-debts-in-rhode-island According to The Providence Journal, the yogurt giant donated nearly $50,000 to the Warwick Public Schools district in Rhode Island on Thursday to pay off students’ lunch debts. Ulukaya’s message comes days after the school district first came under scrutiny for a new policy it announced that would’ve had students who owe lunch money be served only a sun butter and jelly sandwich until their balance was paid. At the time, a number of parents and social media users criticized the school district on social media, saying its new policy could “shame” students and families who may be struggling to cover the costs of school lunches. After several days of backlash and a growing GoFundMe campaign, the school district later announced that it had decided it would forgo its new policy of withholding hot lunches from students with debts, according to the Journal.

S-student lunch debts What in the fuck?

Gotta get the kids for a lifetime of debt.

Free rides of any kind are communist tools of Satan, after all. This and other zero-empathy derangements are brought to you by greedy cunts and the consequences of Atlas Shrugged becoming mandatory reading in many red states/school districts. True Americans save their generosity for people who've earned the privilege. You might say this isn't generosity at all, and you'd be right.

Yep. This happened to me in Middle School often. All I got was one of those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. All the kids who couldn't buy normal lunches also had to eat at a separate table than everyone else. It was pretty humiliating.

I never minded the PBJs but actually segregating students? That's fuck up. I usually just pocketed the lunch money I got and saved it for video games.

PB&Js were my lunches that my mom would pack me with an apple and some milk or juice usually. I found out about a year ago that peanutbutter is essentially wholesale banned outside of those stupid crustables sandwiches due to allergy issues.

its been proven that peanut dust doesn't affect those with peanut allergies, so lol

Oh dear god, those sun butter and jam sandwiches were always absolute garbage. My condolences that these kids have to deal with this shit. Nobody should have to ever have something as stupid as "lunch debts", but guess which US President immediately cut funding for a program that provided poor students free lunches as soon as they got into office in favor of defense spending?

you what now? Where did you get that misconception?

With the overwhelming amount of evidence you provided I can't help but concede.

School Lunches, sponsored by Chobani. As much as I love yoghurt, this is just sad.

Goddamnit, get your act together America. Why isn't this paid for by the government? Don't they care about feeding their most important age group?

You think the us government would EVER do something that even slightly benefits its citizens? Lmao man you have it made in the Netherlands, the US has and always will he an armpit of civilization. We just pretend we aren't.

I'm just wondering at what point you and other citizens will have had enough. The US is really overdue for some kind of revolution, even if that's not a super great thing to go through.

I literally had an allergic reaction to "peanut dust" as a kid and almost died. What the fuck makes you think that grounding something suddenly makes it safe to it for allergic people? That's retarded.

I can't tell if you're joking or not but I'm extremely curious how this was proven to you.

The GOP just need to drop the act and rename the office of president to King because that's clearly what they want.

Too much of our population has been brainwashed into thinking this is better than any alternative.

Clearly the solution to this problem is to provide job opportunities to children so they are able to pay for their own meals.

He's flat out wrong, peanut butter dust can be allergenic. The more damning thing is that the current glut of peanut, and other allergies is a result of poor parenting and poor medial information when we were kids. If you have an allergy to peanuts, that sucks, because it was almost certainly a "learned" allergen by failing to be exposed properly. The new medical literature on all of this says exposure early and often will prevent the majority of allergies like peanut allergies.

Wait, so a peanut allergy is because you weren't exposed to peanuts as a child? How young do you need to be exposed to it?

Basically in the 80's and 90's, research showed that in order to minimize allergies which started to be on the rise in the late 80's, the best method the doctors and medical community came up with was "Aversion". Avoid these foods, avoid introducing them to your kids, and that would fix the problem. The problem is that in the early 2000's, when peanut allergies reached a freakish all time high, they looked at this again and realized "Oh no, we literally told people to do the thing that makes it worse". As for the exact time of exposure, it's hard to say, but the fact is exposure therapies are the only way to deal with "benign" allergies like peanut allergies(Obviously a peanut allergy is different to say, a wasp allergy).

I sent my friend to the hospital because i ate peanuts about 4 hours before meeting up with her and evidently still had some peanut dust/residue under my fingernails. Please don't spread false info.