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In reply to the discussion: Texas school tosses 6th grader’s breakfast in trash after he can’t pay 30 cents [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)48. Money. It is worth more than hunger, thirst, life, death.
America will NEVER be an advanced civilization. Not as long as we value money over well being.
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Texas school tosses 6th grader’s breakfast in trash after he can’t pay 30 cents [View all]
Playinghardball
Nov 2013
OP
…and telling him the day before was entirely out of the question, as that would require competence…
Journeyman
Nov 2013
#3
And did the District send home the written notice they claim they send out?. . .
Journeyman
Nov 2013
#21
For a school incapable of keeping track of pennies, I suspect reading will be a major problem . . .
Journeyman
Nov 2013
#7
everything's a morality play with conservatives, and not the generous kind of morality
phantom power
Nov 2013
#12
I had a similar situation when I was in school. Our school kept a ledger and you could borrow for
Erose999
Nov 2013
#15
I lost the tickets in the wash when I was in grade school. Grades 1-5. And we found them 10
Erose999
Nov 2013
#71
I worked as a public school lunch cashier for many years…I can tell you that after 5th grade….
Tikki
Nov 2013
#24
Sadly, you seem to be the exception these days..... but thank you nonetheless. nt
eqfan592
Nov 2013
#64
most of these school cafeterias have been privatized (for profit). the cafeteria workers barely
putitinD
Nov 2013
#56
Exactly. I'll admit my first instinct was to rail on the cafeteria worker, but i checked that.
eqfan592
Nov 2013
#65
I think what's so sad now is that the cafeteria workers probably make little more than
okaawhatever
Nov 2013
#51
We send banks $85 billion a month to keep them from running out of money, and then do this?
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#32
Unless I'm mistaken, teachers in Texas also get to beat kids. They say that it is good for them,
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2013
#47
"Texas" and "Jesus" have little in common except they have 5 letters in them.
Historic NY
Nov 2013
#59
Forgetting the purpose of the lunch program? Or just shitting on a little kid? I say both.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#62
I have more than 30c in change on the floor of my car, and in the ashtray, and
LeftinOH
Nov 2013
#70