Parents upset after school takes lunches from students with account deficits

Fox 13 Now ^ | 01/30/14

[StormEye]

The government schools are so tolerant and understanding.

[cincinnati65]

If you have a $0 or negative balance, then it’s not “your” lunch. It’s yours when you pay for it. Up to that point, it belongs to the cafeteria.

[Wolfie]

Then why serve it to the kid only to take it away a few minutes later?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I agree it was handled wrong.

That being said, why is there a deficit in their accounts? If the parents don’t have money, surely they are getting welfare and can make a lunch using the food purchased with food stamps.

This crap never happened when I was in school. The poor kids got free lunches- maybe 5-10% of the kids did. The rest of us brought bagged lunches or lunches in a lunchbox or paid money for our food. Or we did without.

[McGavin999]

Back in ancient times when I was a kid, if you didn’t have money you didn’t even get in line at the cafeteria. You brought a brown bag from home and ate outside.

[tgusa]

This is what happens when public “schools” become daycare centers.

[Junk Silver]

So who’s getting fired over this?

That’s what I thought. Chris Christie should have promoted everyone involved in the Bridge-gate scandal, just to be consistent with how things are done now.

[halo66]

I believe many of these parents just did not know that their kid’s account was low/negative on money. They just need to go back to the “pay at the window” policy. No more of these accounts, especially if parents/kids can’t keep track of the account. It was a little cruel to serve the kids and then take it from them...

[Wolfie]

I think it’s the whole “lunch account” thing that opens up the door. I can only assume they don’t want the kids carrying cash for some stupid reason. Probably because the scholar at the cafeteria register would have to make change. And the notices were sent home with the kids! How many of those do you think actually made their way to an adult?

[bert]

With a national debt >$17,000,000,000,000, what difference does it make?

[ObozoMustGo2012]

As much as it sucks for the kids, it avoids setting a mental precedent that you can still get things for free.
Put the onus on the parents to be more responsible.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I can only assume they don’t want the kids carrying cash for some stupid reason. Probably because the scholar at the cafeteria register would have to make change.

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More likely because the thugs they’re warehousing in these government camps will steal it from the other kids.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[Azeem]

“That being said, why is there a deficit in their accounts?”

1. Many parents (probably more like a parent) are just lazy and don’t refill their kid’s account.

2. School worker are incompetent, even by government employee standards and don’t always tell the parents the account is low. And the schools are food fascists so the kids can’t just bring their lunch anymore.

[PowderMonkey]

You can bet those “parents” made sure their cable and satellite TV was paid up for Super Bowl weekend, along with beer in the fridge, their Internet connection, and payments on that $60K SUV. It's all about priorities.

[tanknetter]

Flawed process.

The correct process is that the children’s account should be debited before they walk away with the food. If they don’t have enough of a positive balance then at least some of the food can probably be returned for distro to another child rather than being tossed.

An even better process would be to check the account balance BEFORE the food is even distributed. This may not work in situations where price is determined by weight (salad bars, assuming the school has such a thing), but it would still be a good mitigation step.

[ridesthemiles]

Correct-—but to throw away food that taxpayers are providing shows a complete disrespect for the taxpayer, IMO.

Here in N Nevada, we are bombarded weekly, if not daily about donating to the food banks so the ‘hungry’ can get fed.

When I see examples of those who are going to the food banks to get food and they are women who are approaching the weight of an NFL tackle, I lose any sympathy I might have had.

[mykroar]

2. School worker are incompetent, even by government employee standards and don’t always tell the parents the account is low. And the schools are food fascists so the kids can’t just bring their lunch anymore.

This times about a million. My nephew had trouble multiple times because the school had two different accounts, one strictly for lunches and the other for "incidentals" - which could also be used for lunches. So my brother just kept that one full in case something came up and didn't bother with the lunch account. My brother had to argue with them about every 2 months when they'd refuse to look up the other account.

[csvset]

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