Posted on 07/20/2019 3:55:25 PM PDT by Morgana
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Luzerne County school district is getting a lot of flack regarding a letter sent to parents.
The letter demands they pay delinquent lunch bills for their children or face the risk of having their children placed in foster care. And some of that flack is coming from Luzerne County officials.
Luzerne County officials say there is no way they would be part of removing children from their homes over unpaid lunch bills or any unpaid bill for that matter. They are demanding a retraction letter from the Wyoming Valley West School District.
“I found it very disturbing. Upsetting. It’s a total misrepresentation, a gross misrepresentation of what our agency does,” Luzerne County Children and Youth Services executive director Joanne Van Saun said.
Van Saun and Luzerne County Manager David Pedri say they were stunned when they read the letter that was sent to parents in the Wyoming Valley West School District. It tells the parents they could be taken to dependency court and have their children removed from their homes if they do not pay their delinquent lunch bills. The district is trying to collect some $20,000 worth of delinquent lunch payments.
“It’s just not true. We do not remove children from families for unpaid bills,” Van Saun said.
Luzerne County Children and Youth Services would be part of any foster care placement and they say the scenario, the threat, laid out in the school district letter just does not happen.
“I have been employed for Luzerne County Children and Youth Services for 33 years. Never has this county removed a child from a home for unpaid bills and never will we,” Van Saun said.
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Don’t forget to fire the asshole(s) that were involved with drafting and approving the letters.
It’s the only way.
If the person responsible for this is a white male, his job is probably going to be put in foster care.
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Or sell them to wandering gypsies.
The parents probably ARE wondering gypsies!
>>If the person responsible for this is a white male, his job is probably going to be put in foster care
a white male in a public school system... that seems rather unlikely. unless he’s gay, in which case, his job is safe.
We’ll put them in cages without toothbrushes or toothpaste...They’ll have to drink water out of toilets...
They’ll have to sleep on concrete floors...
Wander = To travel, to and from, without a designation.
Wonder = To ponder, to think.
Use in sentence:
The gypsy wondered where he would wander next.
Ha! Hoist on my own petard!
Destination, not designation.
Send the letter to the “Squad”....
LOL.....
My mom threatened to sell us to “the gypsies” when we were being brats-we lived on a ranch in a remote area of W Texas with the nearest town about 25 miles away-but we never thought to ask who the gypsies were and why we never had seen them anywhere...
Someone needs to summarily fire the staff member who had the brilliant idea to send this letter-without severance pay, too-what an ass****...
Who can’t afford lunch for their kids? Or are in arrears? It was a dumb stupid letter to send out.
Exactly. My mom would tell my brothers when they were acting out that she was going to take them back to the agency.
Gypsies did camp on my grandparents’ farm back in the 20s. My dad tried to run away with them. They brought him back.
Regarding lunch money, don’t feed them. One or two meals and the bill would be paid. This is recent. Our granddaughter is 18 and I remember getting called to come bring lunch money to her grade school.
The letter will have the opposite effect of its intent. Few will ever pay for lunch again.
I don’t approve of the threat, but I don’t approve of sending kids to school without lunch either. There’s a term for it - it’s called child abuse.
Too far. But schools need to drop lunches and let kids bring lunches from home.
Mary Jo Kopechne was from Luzerne county but unfortunately Ted Kennedy made it impossible for her to be helping her great grandchildren deal with this.
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