Clear Creek trapping students into using PINs

Actually, the real reason for the PIN is the liberal-emotional one: the free- or reduced-lunch kids might feel stigmatized by 'paying' for their lunch differently i.e., with a card, with a coupon, not giving the cashier anything (since she'll know who they are), etc. The Lefties, of course, saw this as an emotional catastrophe just waiting to destroy the fragile psyches of the poor, and had to force a system where everyone is the same: PIN numbers. Kids can bring checks or cash from home (which still gets lost and/or stolen before they get to the cafeteria, so that isn't exactly a working solution), while the poorer students have the state employees fill out their paperwork. They go through the line, put in their PIN "just like everyone else", and they don't appear 'different' from their peers.

Of course, the students STILL know who doesn't pay for their own lunch... and the overwhelming majority simply don't care, and most who do won't say anything for fear of PC police reprisals, and the bullies who would say something about it could always find something else to attack anyway. Once again, the Left successfully creates a problem while trying to solve another problem that doesn't really exist anyway... all to justify their existence.

HEY!! Free lunch kids ARE stigmatized!! Just ask my daughter.

Thanks to an SOB of an ex-husband and medical problems that kept me from working, my daughter was eligible for free lunch for a couple of years in elementary school. It affected her.

The notion of being poor so bothered the child that she graduated from high school at 17 with a 4 year scholarship, and EVERY SINGLE year since getting her BA, she's made more money than I have have.

Come to think of it, that free lunch thing is probably what kicked her butt to get into grad school.

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