Clear Creek trapping students into using PINs

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | May 5, 2002, 6:45PM | M. VIRGINIA MARTIN

[rw4site]

Some government education camps are getting an early start training our children to become accustomed to total government control.

[wwjdn]

Very sad....thanks for posting. Have you considered home schooling?

[EggsAckley]

I don't know. Maybe I'm just numb this Monday morning,
but I think the lady is stretching this a bit thin.

[AzJP]

Capitalist solution: Take your business elsewhere: change schools.

[gcruse]

 a loss of our children's rights to use cash.

What about their right to carry a water pistol?
The notion of a child's right to use cash trivializes
the issue of liberty.

[FourtySeven]

She raises some interesting points about this system, but the solution for privacy right advocates is simple in this case...

PACK A LUNCH

[Rebelbase]

Pack the kids a bag lunch and bypass the bueracracy.

[Think free or die]

Our elementary school sons use a PIN system, and it really never occurred to me to object. I'm grateful that they don't lose their lunch money or get bullied by older kids who are looking to steal it. They use cash and practice counting change at the school store where they buy pencils and occasional trinkets.

I'm pretty quick to get irritated by people asking for private information, but I guess this is one battle I wouldn't choose to fight. When we were this age, we came home for lunch. School districts can't count on sending little ones home for lunch anymore. I really don't fault them for using an electronic system for lunch money. I think cash should be an option, but at this age many kids aren't good at keeping track of money.

[rw4site]

I don't have any to home school.

I have a 42 year old son who supposedly fathered two children at the age of 18. At least he paid for two abortions.

If I knew which landfills my only grandchildren were in, I would visit their graves. </disgust> Sorry!

[Xenalyte]

Brown-bagging would remove the problem entirely.

[Protagoras]

Fooling around with these rules and laws is like tinkering with the tax code. It won't work and you have conceded that you must live with it by debating the details.

Eliminate government schools and you solve the problem.

[StockAyatollah]

Are school lunch PINs he Mark of the Beast? No! This woman has gone off the deep end. I'm calling the government and having a black helo pick her up.

[Khepera]

Try telling that to Kroger. They do not require the Kroger plus card but without it you pay much more.

[mhking]

Try telling that to Kroger. They do not require the Kroger plus card but without it you pay much more.

Kroger ain't the only game in town. In Atlanta, where Kroger & Publix go head to head for top market share, Publix advertises that they DON'T require a card to get discounted prices.

Result? Kroger continues to lose market share to Publix here. Kroger's been the market leader for many years; Publix entered in the mid 90's. Publix is on track to become number one within the year.

[Ditter]

This woman is the mother of 6 children. I am happy that this is the worst thing she has to worry about.

[rw4site]

Re: "PACK A LUNCH"

Nope, the lunch bag will be banned.

It may contain a weapon. The thermos may be a bomb. Hey! Stuff Happens!

[AppyPappy]

She's right. Schools have no business running a bank.

[Windsong]

"Brown-bagging would remove the problem entirely"

That is, until they (the school govt) saw EVERYONE doing it. Then they would quickly write up a rule outlawing THOSE as well.

[Khepera]

I wish we had a publix here. We have Marsh (No better) and Safeway (Does not carry many items I use) so we need some more competition. Actually we need more international markets. I like to use clarified butter and use a lot of masala and tandoori spices. I love Mango Nectar as well but try buying those things at Kroger, marsh or Safeway.

[mhking]

We have Marsh (No better) and Safeway (Does not carry many items I use) so we need some more competition. Actually we need more international markets.

If you ever get to go to a Whole Foods Market, you'll think you died and went to heaven. A full supermarket with primary focus on healthy foods, fresh foods and international foods. I think the closest to you would probably be up in Chicago.

Plus we've got what's got to be one of the largest Farmer's Markets in the world. It's the size of about 1 1/2 football fields inside, and has fresh everything, along with just about any international anything that you could ever want. I took my folks in when they came to visit, and they couldn't get over what all was there.