PA school threatens parents with foster care over student lunch debt July 19, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,973 |
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"Your child has been sent to school every day without money and without breakfast and/or lunch," the letter said. "This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to Dependency Court for neglecting your child's right to food."
According to WYOU, the district is attempting to collect more than $20,000 in school lunch debt.
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"Foster care is to be utilized only when absolutely needed — when a child has been abused, is in need or has suffered a tragedy," Pedri told CBS News. "Our foster care system is NOT to be utilized to scare parents into paying school lunch bills. The foster care system should never be viewed as a punitive agency or weaponized to terrorize children and families."
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It is an outrage that the schools have to have any involvement in parents paying for their kids (for lunches or anything else). This is the parent's problem. Not sure threatening foster care was the best approach but it sounds as if the schools are at their wit's end because of bad parenting.
If the parents qualify for free lunches maybe this will encourage them to apply. For all the other parents (which I'm guessing to be the majority), quit being assholes and pay for the lunches of the mouths you agreed to feed when you decided to bring those people to this planet. If youcan'tdon't want to feed them and would rather own the latest iPhone then don't breed them.
Re: PA school threatens parents with foster care over student lunch debt July 22, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,973 |
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When officials there noticed that families owed the district around $22,000 in breakfast and lunch debt, they tried to get their money back.
"By mail, email, robo calls, personal calls and letters," said Joseph Mazur, the president of the district's board of education.
But, Mazur said, nothing worked.
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Mazur, meanwhile, said while petrifying people was never the objective, the tactic did help recover some of what was owed.
"Was the letter a little strong? Maybe yes," Mazur said. "But it did work, because they're paid now."
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"No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically," Casey said.
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Since the poverty level among students has risen in the district recently, new federal nutrition assistance is expected district-wide to cover meals for all students, regardless of their family's economic means.
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"No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically," Casey said.
And no child should be sent to school without the means to eat either. Striking a little fear into these delinquent families got their attention, and if they can't afford a few bucks to feed their own kids, then they shouldn't have those kids. I'm kind of sad they won't be losing their kids if they don't feel like feeding them.
Re: PA school threatens parents with foster care over student lunch debt July 24, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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An update on this story. The school in question refused an offer from a local businessperson to pay off the district's lunch debt.
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An update on this story. The school in question refused an offer from a local businessperson to pay off the district's lunch debt.
Honestly I don't see why the school should give a fuck who pays the debt, so long as it is paid. The school may think that the business is just enabling breeders to spend their money on luxuries, but that's not really the school's business. Either contact CPS if you think the child is being malnourished, or don't; there's not really an in-between.
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Determining if a brat's malnourished is complicated by obesity. An obese child can be malnourished living on nothing but crackers, but the fat makes others think he/she is well-fed.
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Honestly I don't see why the school should give a fuck who pays the debt, so long as it is paid. The school may think that the business is just enabling breeders to spend their money on luxuries, but that's not really the school's business. Either contact CPS if you think the child is being malnourished, or don't; there's not really an in-between.
Determining if a brat's malnourished is complicated by obesity. An obese child can be malnourished living on nothing but crackers, but the fat makes others think he/she is well-fed.
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