• Lunches seized(and then thrown away into the trash) from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary
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as much as i love this kind of systematic bureaucratization can my kid just eat his lunch i mean really
A display of the brilliance of our education system.
Hopefully the person that made that decision is fired, what an idiot.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;43725461] Because once food is served, it can't be served to another student. It would be harmless, but you'd be hard pressed to find any place that takes food they served to a customer who didn't want it, to then serve to another[/QUOTE] Umm I mean why not let the kid just eat the fucking lunch anyway. I didn't even say to give it to another person.
My middle and high school let you get food even if you did not have money in your account, you just could not go on to the next grade level if you had any debt. So you had to pay eventually.
[QUOTE=ashrobhoy;43725183]at my school. 1 sandwich = £3.40. Across the road at the sandwich shop you can get a sandwich what is bigger and has more stuff for £1.40.[/QUOTE] My school had a program where it's $2.00 flat (What's that like 1.3 pound?) for a 330mL milk, some form of potato, up to 3 sides (Usually fruits and vegetables, like raisins and grapes but sometimes stuff like yogurt), and an entree, which could be pizza, lasagna, turkey, even a couple of days they made home-made soup and stew that was actually really good, but that only happened a few days a year. You could also get that for $0.80 if you couldn't afford it, or even free. If you forgot money you could have up to $6.00 in debt in case you forgot a few days in a row. I mean the food wasn't high quality by any standards, but it certainly wasn't bad either. Just bland, if anything.
[QUOTE=areolop;43726053]I assume most of you in the US went through the public school system and know that there has been little information on what ones lunch account balance is unless you ask. Now thats changed in the last couple of years because schools now allow electronic balance management. It would be nice to just send out an email to the parents saying something like "KID NAME's Lunch Account Balance is $2" so they know to add more to it[/QUOTE] Hell, when I was a kid in private school, they wouldn't outright decline your lunch. Your teacher would just get papers from the cafeteria at the end of the day that looked like they were printed in 1983 and said your balance was low and where it currently stood. [editline]30th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;43729358]My middle and high school let you get food even if you did not have money in your account, you just could not go on to the next grade level if you had any debt. So you had to pay eventually.[/QUOTE] If your balance was $-10 in high school, they pretty much said "Here's a piece of bread and milk". Enjoy. To be fair, to get that low, means you hadn't done anything about it the past 2 weeks.
When I was in school, my mom gave me a $1.50 or maybe 1.25 I forget, everyday for lunch, none of this retarded balance shit.
It's amusing how: [quote] Children whose lunches were taken were given milk and fruit instead[/quote] Doesn't make it into the headlines. Yes, it's a stupid way to handle the situation though. Just don't give them lunch the next day or charge them extra for it the next day. Throwing the food away does nothing to resolve the issue except piss everyone involved off.
Did anyone notice that his department is called the "child nutrition department" What happened to the word food guys Seriously that name is dumb
In my highschool, if you didn't have enough money to pay for your lunch (be it in actual money or dollars put into an online account) you were allowed to have your meal but were given detention for holding up the line. I once got a detention because i was literally a dime short, and the next day i had to pay them a dime or else i would have gotten another detention. As stupid and unfair as that is, at least my school still let me have a meal.
[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor]My middle and high school let you get food even if you did not have money in your account, you just could not go on to the next grade level if you had any debt. So you had to pay eventually.[/QUOTE] My school did the same thing, but the debt thing wasn't held against you until graduation. Which probably sucked for the school when people transferred, or it was taken care of somehow.
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