Shame, shame, shame.

...we should be thankful they didn't mark them ''DO NOT FEED'' as well.

it sounds like the conclusion that there were problems between compensation and distribution never went beyond that point: No funds/No lunch, and of course, poor cafeteria workers ended up in the middle, probably fearing for their jobs if it might be thought they had handed out food where it shouldn't have been given.

Bureaucracy is difficult, and at every stage, everyone involved must pause and ask, What's happening here? That means, adults must act like adults.

..who probably should have stayed in the office.

one of the students went home and made lunch for all the kids whose lunch was taken away the next day.

Problem is, this is the parent's fault, not the kids. They need to come up with a punishment for the parents and not the kids.

AND that parent(s) didn't know they were in arrears.

This is nothing justifying 'punishment.' Issue a bill, pay a bill, feed kids, and if the 2 first steps don't occur, STILL feed kids, and figure out why 1 + 2 didn't occur.

feed the kids. First and foremost feed them, then figure the rest out later.

...just to air-condition tents in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think we should be able to give ALL parents a pass on school lunches.

- Considering how much we subsidize the farm industry in the first place, we should get some return on the investment at some point don't you think?

getting a hot breakfast because the Army or Marines were preparing to shut down their base in Iraq/Afghanistan? People were beside themselves screaming about that one. Having a MRE for breakfast is nothing. Vietnam era guys only had those for days or weeks. The same people who got absolutely sideways over that I'm sure think repossessing kids' lunch is a good idea.

LRRP meals. All we had was C-rats. Every day every meal nothing but C-Rats. Unless you were lucky enough to be a REMF or at some large LZ such as Camp Evens or Jane.

It needs to be shoved right down the throats of the right-wing greedy scum who engender this behavior.

that sounds like real determination.

Visiting the sins of their parents upon totally innocent children, depriving them of a meal and throwing it away rather than donate it elsewhere? Someone SHOULD be fired, if only because the school could end up criminally or civilly liable!


rocktivity

Mountain Meadows Mitt should donate some his stolen millions to that fucked up mormon "maybe you get it and maybe you don't" meal program so this does not happen again. LDS jesus freaks gone wild.

Mention that they were mormons?

Sick to my stomach. Sick at heart. So sad...........

probably they will learn that there are really nasty people in the world. But they are also learning that there are good people who make up for it. A lot of times in this world that statement would end with the first sentence, but in this case it looks like the bad guys will loose and the good guys will win. Bad things sometimes teach a good lesson. Hopefully they will learn to be one of the good guys.

If we're serious about every kid having an opportunity to reach their full potential we shouldn't be punishing them for the sins of their parents.

Shouldn't even be a question.

Society should level the playing field as best it can.

That is our responsibility to them and to our Democracy.

Placer (aka "Parcel&quot County, CA, Rock Creek Elementary. I had three children attending that elementary, was on the Site Council, had been around a number of years and it was clear my children would be in that school thru 8th grade. Further, the teacher had a special classroom fund for kids who didn't have lunch money.

Two of my kids were paid up, no problem. The third liked extra snacks, so at one point he ended up about $10 in the hole. So one day, after sitting down with his food, the lunch lady came to his table, took his tray away, and tossed it in the trash, just as you described. No, they couldn't transfer funds from my other kids' funds, no explanation was given for why they didn't give him a lunch on the teacher's fund, just silence and the sense that we were out of line for asking questions.

I pulled my kids from that place shortly thereafter, and would've raised holy hell with them, but I was trying to get a job in the district.

I don't think they were evil, they were just plain Fox "news" stoopid.

income issue. Since they threw away the food they couldn't recoup the cost. so the move actually put them in the hole since you can't charge for a lunch the kid didn't get to eat. People like that get their kicks humiliating others. It's sad and pathetic. Most people see it aas harmless, but if the claim is about the money and the solution doesn't have anything to do with money then it's about humiliation.

Whatever piece on non-humanity came up with that one, should be fired, shamed, and left penniless and hungry in an alley. Sadly, they'll probably get more help and sympathy than they've ever been willing to show others.

the hairnetted somebody's gramma at the cash register.

Bipartisan. That's good and Utah, too.

Those poor children!

I teach and have taught in a large urban high school for 18 years here in west Texas, and every child is provided a free breakfast, period, and every child is fed regardless of whether their lunches can be paid for or not. If a child is over the limit, the nice woman at the checkout simply notes the ID number on a paper pad kept in a drawer.

Nothing is said and no ostentatious display is made. We have any number of organizations, including the First Baptist Church (yes, I'm an atheist, but Baptist money is good as anyone's), Optimist Club, Kiwanis, Lions, Student Council and many more who pay these accounts.

THROWING AWAY the food instead of allowing it to be eaten is INSANE!

Someone definitely needs to be fired and filed on for 40 charges of child abuse.

Or I will be happy to drive up from Texas and kick somebody's ass. I'm 62, but I'll bet pure indignation will guide me straight a true.

Any school district that finds itself below a Texas district in compassion and readiness really needs to look at itself. Really.

could have been solved. In the first place, this was an accounting arrangement between the parents and the school.
The children shouldn't have been involved as though they were committing criminal acts. Did the school principal approve this?

which is a crime unless I'm mistaken'


rocktivity

something is really wrong - I am happy to see that folk from both parties can agree on that

were correct - this all was VERY wrong!

Hmmmm, wonder if they held a news conference to discuss what their fellow representatives in Washington, DC did when they cancelled food stamps for millions?

nutrition-manager out of a job. Maybe that person should work on the food handling line as a public service.

The kids are laboring in school, and they're being taught they must pay to work.

Local seniors too. We would save billions in our federal money that goes to admin. costs.

lets spot out the poor kids

I can't believe we don't have free hot lunch for every kid.

Silver lining....

His party will dump him soon.

Mitt's America, bullies making certain no one was given the benefit of anything...