Typical liberal: She gave that which was not hers to give. If she had reached in her pocket and bought a lunch for a kid who forgot his lunch money that’s one thing, to just hand out your employer’s stock is another.
Grilled cheese in unhealthy?
Did she pay for that out of her own pocket?
No?
Then it’s theft.
Many schools do not even allow brown bag lunches anymore.
Those that do demand that they meet some arbitrary government nutritional guideline. If the lunch fails to meet that guideline they take the lunch away from the child too.
It is all insanity at the liberal level.
I can almost gurantee this was not the reason she was fired. If you have a good employee who breaks the rules you council them. You don’t fire them. If you have a bad employee who breaks the rules you document it and fire them. (In my case I had to council them, put a letter in their file, then, if “it” continued we’d develop and sign an improvement plan. Only then, when the activity in question continued, could I fire them. I would always call them in, pull out the signed plan and ask if they’d complied. “Well, no but...” No but’s. Did you or didn’t you? Then I’d ask what action I had to take. They’d reluctantly say “fire me.” I’d say how sorry I was but would you please come with me. Oddly, they always acted elated when I fired them. Without exception. Weird.)
Are they taking away an already prepared hot lunch and throwing it in the trash and handing the kid a cold cheese sandwich instead? If that’s the case, it seems a bit wasteful not to mention a bit unfair to the kid. Go after the parent(s)/gaurdian for getting behind on paying for the lunches but don’t punish the kid.
But I do not agree that the answer is to provide tax payer funded free lunches for every child. I also think that rules against brown bagging are beyond stupid.
“I bet all prisoners would like an upgrade”.
In our county, the food processed for the county schools are also processed for the Detention Center. I laughed myself sick when I found that out on a “field trip” with one of my kids. The irony of it is sad.
This article is intended to soften up minds about the next hill on the liberal agenda: free and compulsory meals for children. It will be of the quality of free and compulsory education, although people would never accept food as toxic as the education they accept from the government. Poison works faster on the body.
Liberals are hopeless, so I would ask conservatives: do you send your children to public school? If you do, are you not straining at cheese and swallowing a curriculum?
Don’t participate in this rotten system. You want free stuff for their stomachs, try the nearest restaurant dumpster. You want free stuff for their minds, turn on the tv.
And then remember, garbage in, garbage out. When your kids reach voting age — and voting will then be free and compulsory — how do you expect they’ll vote?
We’re obviously talking about White Privileged kids. They must pay their way and also for the others.
That’s what happens when the government doesn’t get credit for the charity.
1. This is not a "poor" issue. The "poor" kids are on free lunches anyway, so not paying is not an issue.
2. Charity IS being provided, in the form of a cheese sandwich and milk. The kid is not "starving".
3. This is totally an irresponsibility issue. Parents being irresponsible, kids being irresponsible. Someone being irresponsible somewhere in the process. If you can't be responsible, you deserve the consequences.
How about pack your own lunch?
When will people learn there is no “free” lunch. Someone pays for the “free” lunch. Children need to learn this at an early age. I know they are helpless victims but they need to learn the fundamentals of life. Our welfare state has made them too dependent on government.
The lunch lady probably wasn’t fired because of this issue. The whole story is crap.
That being said, the waste in the school lunch programs are tremendous. More food is thrown away uneaten and unopened than you would imagine. Surely the child needs to start making friends and mooch some food from them.
OK I know that is bad advice, but my generation never starved because we learned to survive lunch period. It was like a swap meet in there. My old friend Larry, not his real name, used to go around asking do you want your this and that until he had enough to eat or trade for something better. If he still wasn’t satisfied, he made a second sweep near the end of the period to scarf up the leftovers. Give him half your tuna sandwich and you had a friend for life.
Today, with the adoption of FLOTUS’s healthful nutrition program, I don’t think Larry would survive his early childhood to pursue a successful career in auto sales.
Very simple and workable solution to the entire situation had the manager and principal thought it out. Schools have had a decades old policy of withholding report cards if room fees, library fines, etc were owed. Simply record the meal being given in a ledger and give the child a meal. Inform the parents of the debt. The school system gets paid for the meal and the child gets a needed nourishment or rather before Wookieism used too anyway. Liberals make simple mole hill problems with simple common sense solutions into mountains.
Being also disabled myself; ICAM with what you have written.
Hmmmm.
How many other infractions did this lunch lady have? I am always suspicious when I hear the “I was fired simply because I did this.”