Clear Creek trapping students into using PINs

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

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[Khepera]

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[mhking]

Chicago? Will I be safe? Can I carry my gun? I'm always armed...

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[Khepera]

Guns are evil killers and I will eliminate them....Mayor Dick Daley

[Xenalyte]

Now you've done it. I need shrimp . . . STAT!

[Iwo Jima]

The No. 1 problem with government schools is that they are run by the government. The No. 2 problem with government schools is that they are just too damn big. Many of the problems being encountered in government schools are due to the sheer size of these student warehouses.

If we had schools of the proper size where most everybody knew each other, then there would be no excuse for requiring ID for any purpose, including just to pay cash to buy a lunch.

We had no student ID in my schools. Nobody ever needed to see ID because everyone knew me. If I didn't follow the rules, my teacher, the principal, and my parents would all know about faster than I could spit.

[Texas Mom]

For years there were no cafeterias. Kids took their lunch or lived close enough to go home for lunch. Then came the cafeteria and the parents sent a quarter to school with the child to pay for their lunch. From that day forward there have been kids who lose their money or forget it and there are also cases where kids will beat up a child or threaten to beat them up for their lunch money.

Then came the free lunch and free breakfast, kids who got a free lunch were sometimes embarassed because they were teased by the other kids so they came up with the the lunch card where parents could pay for the lunch by the week or the child who didn't pay got the same kind of card and the student got their card punched but these cards would forever get misplaced or lost.

The PIN sounds like it might just be a better way to keep track of the money, and make sure the kid gets to eat. Who payed and what student does the school get paid by the state or free lunch program.

It sounds like this woman who has 6 children still has too much time on her hands.

[theoutsideman]

Adults in this country are just too selfish and receive what they deserve for it. Stop being selfish! Homeschool your children.

[wwjdn]

I'm sorry, abortions are murder and they need to be stopped.

[lizma]

So do we and I love it.
Every kid gets a PIN lunch number when they enroll and the county sets up an account and keeps track of it.
You don't have to use it, you don't have to supply addition info and here we are alllowed to use cash. The parents can even buy lunch at school and eat with their kids.
1st graders can lose their coats at school in the middle of winter. (Least my son could). Keeping track of a buck and some change every day would be quite a challenge.

[darth]

My very Libertarian 14 year old at Clear Lake High has stopped buying lunch in protest of the PIN system. I think they must be selling the info to marketing firms. We must be paying those school bureaucrats too much.

[monkey]

Ancient Proverb: Give a bully your lunch money, and you will feed him for a day. Give him your pin, and he will eat your lunch forever.

[Texas Mom]

Then I would say anyone has a choice. Pack a lunch.

[arthurus]

This move to lunch numbers is in response to the Federal "Free" Lunch program. It keeps the children or non qualifying others from getting free lunches. But cash is OK, it just has to have a number to account for where it came in. Even the teachers who eat in the lunchroom have assigned numbers. This is not just in Clear Creek but will soon be in every lunchroom near you. In Florida, we have had this system for three years. Pack a lunch! It cuts down on the amount of control the feds have over the school when fewer applications for free and reduced lunch are recieved.

[rw4site]

Re: "1st graders can lose their coats at school in the middle of winter. (Least my son could). Keeping track of a buck and some change every day would be quite a challenge."

Without the challenge, how do or at what age do you expect a child to learn to keep track of their "responsibilities?

[brewcrew]

Without the challenge, how do or at what age do you expect a child to learn to keep track of their "responsibilities?"

You got that right. Several days in a row of being hungry (i.e., missing lunch by losing your lunch money) can teach a child soooooo much. Unfortunately there are too many parents who want to step in and provide for their little kiddies' every whim. What you end up with is a whole bunch of non-functional adults.

If you want to provide for another creature's every need, get a dog. If you want to raise a fully functional adult, let your kid miss lunch a couple of times. Their stomach will teach them more than your condescending lecture.

[jimt]

The purpose of the PIN should be obvious to you - it's so the kids eating "free lunch" aren't embarassed when their parents drop them off and pick them up in new cars.

These parasites frequent the elementary school across the street from me. I regularly see the parents of "free breakfast" and "free lunch" kids driving new quad cab pickups, new Toyota and Honda sedans, new Chevies and Fords, etc.; and there's one I've seen driving a new Cadillac Sedan de Ville. With, of course, four "bambinos" who eat on the taxpayer's nickel.

After all, we couldn't publicize those whose parents are so worthless they can't even feed their own kids, while buying new cars, now could we? Someone might be embarassed.