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

[QUOTE=matt000024;51091179]Wait you can't bring your own lunch to schools anymore? What kind of fascist bullshit is that?[/QUOTE] Kids just started bringing McDonalds and entire Pizzas, bringing lunch gets banned.

I'm not sure how it is at this school, but when I was in school, students of low income were allowed to get lunch for free/at a reduced price. Maybe the school mentioned is truly a shitty school that allows their less fortunate students to be malnourished, but who knows if the kid that was refused a meal is one of those students. [QUOTE=Washington Post]But Zupancic noted that the policy did not affect students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, only children whose parents had neglected to settle the bill for their meals.[/QUOTE] This kid could be from a family that is well-off financially, being neglected by the parents that don't want to spend money on their child meals. Here's a good school policy: If a student that is not on a free/reduced price meal plan is constantly being refused food due to an overdue balance, look into calling Child Protective Services.

[QUOTE=27X;51091443]Kids just started bringing McDonalds and entire Pizzas, bringing lunch gets banned.[/QUOTE] You can thank the school lunch calorie limit bullshit for that. How dare someone try to make it through the day on a better lunch. I remember elementary school was the only school that actually had good lunches and after that it went to utter shit. The pizza tasted like cardboard, it cost $4.50 for a dinky ass smoothie, and one time the tasteless sweet potato fries had some random green blob on it. Nevermind the "burger" that was green in the center. Hell, even some 3rd world countries get better lunches.

Part of the problem is that the regulations governing "healthy" school lunches in the US are shit- instead of providing funding for qualified nutritionists, better physical health programs, and actual, freshly-cooked, healthy-but-not-shit meals, they just ban anything that isn't "healthy", i.e. not special preprocessed stuff that is then reheated in a large oven. That might not be the case at all schools across the US, but I saw some of that firsthand my last couple of years in HS.

School lunch prices keep going up. A single lunch at my school is $2.75, and the portions can be pretty small on some days. The worst part about it is that they managed to put in a new entrance to the football field, but they can't give enough of a shit to actually reduce our lunch prices, or at least supply it to us for free. We get public funding and it's just wasted on needless shit.

i remember getting the shitty cheese sandwich when i had no balance back in elementary school. im in HS (senior) right now and fuck paying for that shitty overpriced 3 dollar lunch. i started a thing where i get one of my friend's empty paper trays, sneak up to the booth where everybody gets their lunch, and just blend right in without having to walk up to the thing and pay. thanks to me a lot of other people started doing it too. i fully support it. i dont like to call it stealing, since all of that food gets thrown away anyway

remember back in the 30s when we eliminated malnutrition in poor students by giving them free lunches? guess the next childhood epidemic to bring back is polio

'Government cheese' sounds so grim. It reminds me of 'victory gin' from 1984. The entire concept of only getting lunches from the school is such a foreign concept to me. Here, we always brought in our own lunches, but there was a canteen where you could pay money for hot foods, cakes, fruit, drinks etc. When we got to senior year and got our driving licences, we'd sneak out of the school and get Maccas or KFC.

[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 no. [video=youtube;l_htSPGAY7I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I[/video]

[QUOTE=Kylel999;51089974]It's absurd but what else can they do? The money never makes a profit, it's just to pay for the food, and if someone doesn't have money more than 12 times before paying their balance, eventually they have to cut them off and say "look, you've gotta pay or this system doesn't work anymore" Throwing the food away IS fucking ludicrous though. If it's getting wasted what's the difference[/QUOTE] Except with the amount of private companies who have come in to handle school lunches it is about profit. Hell many of these companies have it in their contracts to forbid any other food like bake sales, class fundraisers, etc from taking place at any time they might be selling food to the students.

[QUOTE=Kylel999;51089997]AutoCAD was awful though, hasn't been updated in like 7 years and it freezes every 10 minutes[/QUOTE] Yeah well before that the class had been using CADKey [I]from fucking 1995[/I] Also I think they upgraded from XP to 7 in my senior year but they installed 7 on old dell computers that could only handle XP iirc. After that the computers started handling like shit. Also it said none of them were registered.

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;51092154]Yeah no. [video=youtube;l_htSPGAY7I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I[/video][/QUOTE] All I'm seeing is John Oliver spewing his regular color of anecdotal evidence. Shitty schools scumming the gov't out of money does NOT imply that there aren't MANY, incredible charters out there.

[QUOTE=greasemunky;51090290]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] Wow I guess I was pretty lucky, then. Growing up in South Carolina the school always had a stack of weird, mystical sandwiches around for the kids that couldn't afford lunch. I say they were mystical because they were peanut butter and honey sandwiches, but for the first 2 minutes of eating you wouldn't think that there was any honey at all in them. Then, suddenly, your hands would be sticky, the cheap brown tasteless wheat bread was completely soaked and soggy, and honey would literally be dripping down onto the table. It was always weird and seemed kind of low budget, like "this doesn't taste good at all so let's just make it really sweet and give it to them", but it's definitely better than one slice of cheese sandwiches.

What the fuck, is my old high school district the only place that offers free or reduced lunches for people like this? Literally you get a fucking slip from either the officer or counselor, have the information filled out and you're guaranteed a free lunch for what ever they're serving that day, if you get extra say like 2 hotdogs instead of one then they charge you for that extra, but otherwise it's all free. Hell our lunches are pretty decent when I was in highschool, it wasn't top notch stuff but a lot of food was pretty good, save when they changed the pizza and few other things around but otherwise we decent food, it definately wasn't home cooked or anything but it was pretty good overall and this was a fucking public school.

what I find most disgusting is that the hot lunch was nuggets or corn dogs come on America

Huh. I always thought the American school lunch system was free not paid.

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;51092154]Yeah no. [video=youtube;l_htSPGAY7I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I[/video][/QUOTE] Your avg. Charter prepares you for WAY more than hs ever does fam

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;51090039]My school banned it under the guise of protecting us from the unhealthy food at home in order to coerce us into buying from the cafeteria, snack carts, or lunch bar. There was also a literal candy store on campus, open every morning and during lunch in which other students would blow 5-10 dollars on over a thousand calories worth of snacks.[/QUOTE] What the fuck? Seriously? I thought schools in the UK trying to take away actually "unhealthy" food was stupid. End of the day when schools are expecting you to pay for cheap processed crap that's probably not that good for you in the long run you should be entitled to bring in your own food. It's a parent's choice, not the school's. I swear one day if I have a kid and their school tries to take away food that I gave them I'm going to come in and twist their arm until they learn to back down. [editline]23rd September 2016[/editline] [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] Tough shit. The needs of the many outweigh those of the few and if it means that some middle/upper class twits have to sacrifice a sliver more of their paycheck then too bad, this laissez-faire attitude that so many espouse is a load of horseshit that needs to be stomped out.

I dunno if it is a time or place thing, but back when I was in school I loved the lunches. I guess some sort of bullshit calorie limit rule people are mentioning is part of it? I used to love almost everything, the pizza, chicken patties, double sausage and biscuits, ect. There was even "Mexican pizza" which I haven't been able to find something like it since. Was really good.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51091327]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.[/QUOTE] If the kid wants to eat a double cheeseburger let him. My school....mind, I graduated class of 08...sold pretty damn good double bacon cheeseburgers, huge sleeves of curly fries, and didnt really complain if you walked through the line with a bottle of coke or DP in hand.They had healthy options, too. Salads mostly. But they put the choice in our hands, if we wanted it we could buy it or we could bring it or we could buy their burgers. I usually had a burger and a curly fry. They also had a robust free-and-reduced lunch program. Their 'I cant pay but I'm not in the program' free lunch wasnt fancy but it wasnt depressing prison gruel either. You got a small carton of Purity milk and a smuckers PB&J. So it was at least tasty, and lacked government cheese. Our cafeteria was huge, catered to over two thousand people, for the most part sold tasty food at good prices through two seperate lines, [i]and usually was able to turn a profit.[/i]

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;51090467]I swear living in America is just like some kind of giant pyramid scheme.[/QUOTE] Kinda seems like it from an outside perspective

I still have flashbacks of my university's cafeteria which had overpriced sandwiches with nothing but half a slice of ham and a single cube of butter (not even spread mind you, just cold butter put in there) and nothing else. It was basically a fucking scam and only students in their early years would bother eating there. Everyone else very quickly started to walk all the way to the mall to get a subway because the price was almost the same, and at least you had a drink and a cookie.

So this is the kind of bullshit I get to deal with when I get my own kids? I CANT WAIT

There was some days were my chicken nuggets were really good and other days it was shit. Also, when there was extra they would put it for everyone to have for free. My lunch ladies were very nice, they would pay for some kids meals out of their own pockets. Also, my school was just caught having almost the entire school full of dangerous mold. I've known it for years but they know only got caught in an air quality test 5 years after I graduated.

[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] If it's any consolation I went to a private Catholic school as a Christian and came out an Atheist because it was a damn good education that explained everything and let me make my own conclusions. Jesuits and Brothers of the Holy Cross are the "academic Catholics" and don't force shit down your throat (in my experience). Yeah we still had forced Mass every few months but we didn't have to pray or get communion so it was basically a break from school work. Man, the difference in quality from my shit public middle school to my private high school was insane. Terrible teachers, bullying was zero tolerance meaning the kid getting bullied got in the same amount of trouble, food was fucking awful (yay Sodexo, literally prison food), crap old computers, broken desks in the hallways, no walls (our classrooms had cubicle walls, was the weirdest thing, so you could hear other classes on the other side because the cubicle walls didn't reach the ceiling), no recess, huge boner over doing well on passing the Praxis standardized tests rather than learning about interesting or useful stuff. My private school was basically a mini University in one building, all the teachers were friendly/smart, lots of after school clubs and elective classes, honestly if I never went to private school and just went to our absolute dogs hit public high school I might not have gone to college, or I'd be dead from being bullied into suicide.

This is the kind of shit that makes me wonder how quickly we'd see changes if we legally required politicians to send their children to public schools