School lunch worker quits after being forced to refuse hot meal to poor student - Polidicks

[QUOTE=proboardslol;51089978]I want to send my (hypothetical) kids to a private school but I don't want them to become Christians or social retards[/QUOTE] Send em to a charter tbt though the only bad side of private schools (if you pick right) is the price.

[QUOTE=aznz888;51089957]This isn't a surprise, I've had similar policies growing up through K-12 schools. Administration blows their money on fancy new gizmos, projectors, and refurbishing the recess equipment, but doesn't even subsidize for their own students' meals.[/QUOTE] My high school bought 12 4k ~70 inch flat screen smart TVs with huge refresh rates. Each one costed over 2 grand, they've never used more than 2 at a time, and never have been used for anything more than the occasional video and sideshow. And they have a similar policy here.

I was on good enough terms with the lunch ladies that, when my broke ass came up half a dollar short or something, they'd usually spot me out of pocket. And then I'd pay them back, even if I didn't have to. Ridiculous that this particular lunchroom worker wasn't allowed to do that. School district needs to wisen the fuck up. [editline]22nd September 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Radical_ed;51090190]Send em to a charter tbt though the only bad side of private schools (if you pick right) is the price.[/QUOTE] Yeah GLHF paying for that shit if you're in the typical income bracket of 'We end each week with ten bucks in the bank account'.

[QUOTE]Students who were refused the hot meal instead got a sandwich made of two slices of wheat bread and a single, cold slice of “government cheese” [/QUOTE] "Government cheese" sounds terrible.

Oh god I remember at my elementary school the horror of emergency lunches. The most tasteless white bread and cheese that was terrible beyond human comprehension with a good chance of it being moldy. It's pathetic that we can't provide decent lunches for students.

[QUOTE=Hanso;51090247]"Government cheese" sounds terrible.[/QUOTE] It is, don't worry.

[QUOTE=Hanso;51090247]"Government cheese" sounds terrible.[/QUOTE] it's not bad. it's surplus cheese from governments subsidizing the milk industry, some of it goes to the military, some of it goes to public schools, some of it goes to natural disaster victims, some just goes to welfare recipients. they do the same thing with butter and bread but cheese is the famous one thanks to a snl skit

[QUOTE=Hanso;51090247]"Government cheese" sounds terrible.[/QUOTE] Think MRE cheese spread? The stuff that gives you the hard shits

[QUOTE=Craptasket;51090317]Think MRE cheese spread? The stuff that gives you the hard shits[/QUOTE] that's different stuff. government cheese is just a block of processed cheddar

prove it cheese lover

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When I was in school and had a negative balance I was always at least given a tuna sandwich so I wouldnt starve. The sad thing is I was too young to understand debt so I was always confused as to why I was being punished and ended up assuming my teacher thought I had misbehaved.

I swear living in America is just like some kind of giant pyramid scheme.

At the public schools I went to in my K-12 years, school lunches ranged from shitty to barely decent, though that's because I lived in 3 different school districts in 2 different states, each with varying levels of funding. However, I'm not at all surprised about the rule regarding the "hot meals". My high school's district had (and to my knowledge still has) a similar rule, though I'm not quite sure about how strictly they force staff to follow it. On a ethical, moral, and logical basis though this kind of shit is utterly depressing. For a nation that is effectively the sole remaining superpower in the world (though China's starting to get close to overtaking us economically), the United States is doing a really bad job of presenting itself as a modern country. That being said, once you get to college-level education and (paid, albeit per semester at most places) dining halls, it's a near complete 180 in terms of food availability and quality (at least at my college and the others I've visited). Shame it's not be same (minus the cost per semester) for public K-12 education.

It also high depends on where you are, if you're poor, your schools budget depends on your local areas property taxes, which as you can guess, are poor as fuck. Whereas in my area one of our schools has 2 goddamn stadiums

[QUOTE=aznz888;51089957]This isn't a surprise, I've had similar policies growing up through K-12 schools. Administration blows their money on fancy new gizmos, projectors, and refurbishing the recess equipment, but doesn't even subsidize for their own students' meals.[/QUOTE] hi the reason they spend it on that shit is because that's what they're legally allowed to spend it on title 1 money can be used for education tech, it can't be used to subsidize lunches

[QUOTE=TestECull;51090217] Yeah GLHF paying for that shit if you're in the typical income bracket of 'We end each week with ten bucks in the bank account'.[/QUOTE] Charters are free ya dingus

american school food is garbage and disgusting, both visually, smelling, and tasting. had it free until my highschool years, since my schools back then had more social programs that would give free lunch. but after seeing what the highschool served for a price, it looks the exact same as it did years back. that's why i always brought my own lunch. the school system for lunch is an example of what would happen if there's too much regulation on what's healthy and whats not for people. cheap shit processed freezer food that's either tasteless or tastes bad. and don't get me started on the side dishes, pretty sure everyone eats the 'main meal' and throws away the side stuff.

My high school had a student body of like 1000, had free lunches for everyone, and still had enough funding for other things like repairs after a tornado and flooding. Plus there was a student council that the administration listened to I guess I got really lucky. High school must be the worst for people in bigger cities

[QUOTE=Hanso;51090247]"Government cheese" sounds terrible.[/QUOTE] It was. My family was "too rich" for free lunch, and in reality we could barely have any leeway on spending after our bills. So I usually had to have two slices of wheat bread with a slice of cold cheese in the center. I also had a fat free milk with it. The cheese was like the American Cheese stuff you get at the deli, only its been kept out for an hour while the kids from first period got their lunch. Can't say I miss those days.

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;51090467]I swear living in America is just like some kind of giant pyramid scheme.[/QUOTE] It is. The rich get richer at the poor's expense, the poor get poorer, everything's about money, honesty only goes so far. If you're a lying, cheating degenerate, you'll thrive and might even get to be on top; everyone else gets fucked over. So many problems with this place that could easily be fixed but won't be. The last thing the people on top want to do is share and help the rest of us.

[QUOTE=Citrus705;51089959]Whats with american schools and their retarded policies?[/QUOTE] Here 'public' schools are funded by the taxpayers, via the taxes they pay. So saying something like "all students should be provided lunch" means you are saying "Taxpayers should pay for the lunches of other people's kids". Not all taxpayers agree with that. They feel that the parents should pay for their own children's lunches, with the poorest getting a basic cheap lunch of bread and cheese or similar. You can see how this is a complicated issue. Everything from 'don't have kids if you can't support them' to 'think of the children' to 'you're lucky you're getting anything' to 'throwing away food is unconscionable' is mixed up in this.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;51089952]School lunches in America are absolutely disgusting.[/QUOTE] hey now some of us have fond memories of outright refusing to eat the lunch then losing 15 lbs. only because of that

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;51091074]Here 'public' schools are funded by the taxpayers, via the taxes they pay. So saying something like "all students should be provided lunch" means you are saying "Taxpayers should pay for the lunches of other people's kids". Not all taxpayers agree with that. They feel that the parents should pay for their own children's lunches, with the poorest getting a basic cheap lunch of bread and cheese or similar. You can see how this is a complicated issue. Everything from 'don't have kids if you can't support them' to 'think of the children' to 'you're lucky you're getting anything' to 'throwing away food is unconscionable' is mixed up in this.[/QUOTE] Anything to pay a little less taxes, to the point of starving the poor It doesn't even help your son, who grows up with a dickhead parent and sees this kind of bs every day

Wait you can't bring your own lunch to schools anymore? What kind of fascist bullshit is that?

Every time one of these threads about school lunches in America comes up I always get confused. Are you not allowed to bring your own lunch in American schools? Having to eat the food the school provides just sounds retarded as fuck and it's probably cheaper for the parents to just send the kid to school with a bologna sandwich, a banana, a juice box, and a granola bar. That was what I took to school for lunch and that was perfectly fine to get me through the day.

This story made me so, so very sad. Literally can't put it into words.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;51091186]Every time one of these threads about school lunches in America comes up I always get confused. Are you not allowed to bring your own lunch in American schools? Having to eat the food the school provides just sounds retarded as fuck and it's probably cheaper for the parents to just send the kid to school with a bologna sandwich, a banana, a juice box, and a granola bar. That was what I took to school for lunch and that was perfectly fine to get me through the day.[/QUOTE] It depends on the school, mine allowed home lunches, but some do not. The fact that a school can ban home lunches is worrying though

[QUOTE=da space core;51091282]It depends on the school, mine allowed home lunches, but some do not. The fact that a school can ban home lunches is worrying though[/QUOTE] Yeah mine was the same way (although it was private and a few years ago).

[QUOTE=matt000024;51091179]Wait you can't bring your own lunch to schools anymore? What kind of fascist bullshit is that?[/QUOTE] Not all schools do this, but some do. The two cited reasons generally I think are that kids bring shit other kids are allergic to, and that parents will give kids unhealthy food. Both retarded and can be dealt with in other ways.