School dumps kid's lunch for failure to pay

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/beaverton_school_lunch_policy.html

I don't agree with throwing perfectly good food away in front of the kid, but what the hell is so wrong with the "emergency" lunch when kids rack up unpaid lunches?

The schools make every effort to contact parunts about the delinquent accounts. They STILL don't pay, so the school has to resort to drastic measures like this. Dammit breeders, PAY for your brats' food!

I'm sure these breeders SOMEHOW find the money to pay for manicures, cigarettes, cell phones, car payments, etc. etc. Yet they just ASSUME the school will go on feeding their kid for free, because, after all, who (other than the parunts) would deny food to a CHYYYLD?

About three years ago, West Linn-Wilsonville School District staff gave peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to students who didn't pay their bills but abandoned the idea because it was embarrassing for students and not nutritious enough, Superintendent Roger Woehl said.

Okay, I REALLY don't get this. Maybe I'm showing my age, but do any kids bring "cold" lunch from home these days? Sandwiches in brown bags? Or is this not COOL anymore? And "not nutritious enough"...WTF? What a load of shit. Kids eat all kinds of crap food, so don't tell me PBJ isn't nutritious enough. PLEASE!

The parunts of the girl whose lunch was dumped say this at the end of the article:

"We believe that their efforts are going to pay off with dividends that we are looking for," he said.

Of course, the "dividends" being FREE FOOD for their kid.

If you can't/won't feed 'em, DON'T FUCKING BREED 'EM!

Oh, and chicken nuggets and Little Debbie snacks and all the other shit kids get from the lunch line ARE nutritious enough? Please. I'd wager that those PB-and-jelly sandwiches are healthier than the other crap that gets served.

I don't blame the school for wanting to take action with that $70K uncollected debt they accumulated in one year from people not paying their lunch bills. Honestly, I think the kids should be damn glad they can get anything for free when they're out of money or in debt as far as lunch money - no school I ever went to had emergency lunches. If you had no money, you hoped your friends would share with you, or you'd give someone a quarter and ask them to bring you back a cup of fruit or a snack cake.

Man, the waste in throwing away all those food scraps. As someone who composts all her veggie scraps, I don't understand why the school doesn't have a big compost area way out back. Might even be able to sell the resulting compost. But that's neither here nor there.

I don't see why it would be a big problem to keep the lunch account filled. Parents know how much it is from the outset, yes? It's not as though the school is refusing to tell them how much lunch will cost.

I also don't see why it's so hard to make (much cheaper) sack lunches in advance. Two or three days' worth could be made at one time and stacked in the fridge. Kids could get input so less food is wasted.

But what do I know.

Oh yes, we can't have kids feeling bad about themselves because they don't pay for their lunch, don't 'cha know.

I see nothing wrong with what they did. It teaches Cuntleigh that, "You don't pay; you don't play." Simple as that. It is school after all, they should be learning something.

And of course, what would a story like this be without mentioning little Cunleigh is allergic to peanuts. OF COURSE she is! What fucking kid today doesn't have 500 allergies?

At the school I taught at here's how lunches went:

Kids who brought their lunches from home were either:

1. Pampered picky eaters with lunch boxes full of junk.

2. Kids of PNB's who recognized school lunch was expensive and starchy.

3. Kids with special dietary needs (diabetes, allergies)

Kids who ate the school cafeteria lunch were either:

1. Kids on free or reduced lunch.

2. Kids of BNP's who were too disorganized to pack their kid's lunch, or to demand that their kid do it. (These were the ones who never paid lunch bills at all, or on time.)

Parunts were give three months of notices to pay their child's bill before the school gave their kid a bagged lunch of either a peanut butter or cheese sandwich, carrot sticks, fruit, and milk--actually pretty nutricious. Parents would make a huge stink about how their child was embarrassed by it, and some of the older kids were. The K-3rd grade kids were pretty oblivious. I did feel bad for some of the kids who realized why they were getting the emergency lunch. It really isn't a kid's, who is under a working age, fault that their parunt is a deadbeat with their bills.

As far as dumping a lunch in front of a kid. It's wasteful, and embarrassing for the child. The parunt is the one who should be made to feel humiliated. Plus, if this child actually did have a peanut allergy the stupid parunt should be packing her lunch and making sure her food is safe. Stupid breeders.

I graduated in 1984 so my 8 years of cafeteria food were much more old fashioned.

Our school's food was actually VERY GOOD. Everything was homemade (even the rolls!!!), meals were balanced, and they had a large variety of meals. They offered a standard balanced hot lunch or there was the cold lunch which consisted of various sandwiches. 99% of the kids in my school ate in the cafeteria. lunches were 45 cents ($1.15 now and the food's still the same from what I hear).

There was no bitching, no crying, everybody ate what was served and food allergies were unheard of. Everybody paid for their lunch, if you forgot your money, you didn't eat or you borrowed money.

My how things have changed. And not for the better.

brat nails it again. I read this and thought: stupid breeders. Is it really so fucking hard to make sure your sprog is at least fed once it's out of your SAH entertainment zone?

"You can't slit the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve."
-Al Swearingen

KidFreeLuvnLife Wrote:
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> Oh yes, we can't have kids feeling bad about
> themselves because they don't pay for their lunch,
> don't 'cha know.
>
> I see nothing wrong with what they did. It
> teaches Cuntleigh that, "You don't pay; you don't
> play." Simple as that. It is school after all,
> they should be learning something.
>
> And of course, what would a story like this be
> without mentioning little Cunleigh is allergic to
> peanuts. OF COURSE she is! What fucking kid
> today doesn't have 500 allergies?

I was appalled at the kid complaints of food allergies when she got an ER lunch. That does not happen in the real world. You don't pay; you don't get. Simple as that. Good for the school employee for just handing the girl a bagel when there was the complaint over the sandwich. Too bad, the other food got tossed. As for allergies, I find it ridiculous how an airline cannot serve peanuts and do a super-clean on the jet if a tyke with a peanut allergy is on the passenger manifest.

The mother's response does not surprise me. I am certain she felt she could be delinqent on her child's lunch account and how the school would not deny that poor child and feed her anyway. Parents love the selective socialism for them and their kids yet they will pitch a fit when taxes go up to pay for it all. Do these breeders believe socialized countries do not have their citizens pay for these things? Taxation in the EU and Canada are lots higher than here and many of the people do say the health care is horrible!

Huh... In Australia (or at least the state I'm from), it's up to the parent (or if you're in high school, the student) to make lunch to bring to school, otherwise you go without. If you don't want to bring lunch from home you can order from the canteen, but if you don't have money on hand you can't order, simple as that. No free "emergency lunch", no hot food buffet to choose from - we don't have that option in Aussie schools, usually you order your food in in the morning before classes start and pick it up at lunch time. Most of the time the food is placed in a paper bag, not on trays. There were a couple of times when I was in high school that I forgot my lunch and went without. It sucked, but that's just how it goes.

American schools really do seem to pamper to school brats and breeders.

bratBgone Wrote:

"The parunt is the one who should be made to feel humiliated."
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Yes, the parent should be the one humiliated but we all know that doesn't happen. They count on everyone always giving in just so the brat won't feel bad. Parents today know they can be deadbeats and get away with it 'cause it's "for the chyllldddruunn". Well, I say fuck 'em. If the little brats have to be embarrassed in order to get the worthless parents to do the right thing then so be it.

WTF is this "account" bullshit? Like others here have said: when I was in school, getting lunch at the cafeteria was a cash transaction - no money, no food. Hello? I'd usually bring my lunch (PB sandwiches ARE nutritious!) - but, if they were serving something I really loved that day (I remember some delicious rigatoni, and also a yummy filet of sole with tartar sauce), my Mom would give me money for that. And it was NOT expensive!

Let me get this straight from the story: the moo is a part-time nutrition instructor at a community college with a peanut-allergic brat and the stupid bitch can't find a few minutes to pack a proper lunch? Anyone else getting that disconnect here?

Ha! You are right DrDanCorelli! Good heavens, it's much less fuss for the parent to just slap a nice cheese/PB sandwich together with some veggie sticks and maybe a cookie or two than it is to muck about with all this "account" nonsense. The school should be teaching responsible credit habits, anyways, if they must have these silly debit accounts--no money, no lunch that day, none of this ER lunch foolishness. So wasteful!

When I was a PTA officer at my stepkyd's elementary school up until 2001, there were a handful of habitual offender parents who absolutely would NOT take regular responsibility to insure that their chyld had something to eat at lunch. The standard operating procedure up until that point had been to let the kyd "charge" his lunch indefinately while sending home dunn letters to moomie. The same procedure was followed with the NUMEROUS lunches which had been paid for with non sufficient funds checks as well. The principal would call each moomie and were treated as if they were debt collectors by evading their calls (if they answered at all), made insincere promises to pay, and some got downright belligerent. These contacts regarding their lunchless kyds were ALWAYS made with kid gloves and accompanied by forms for them to complete for free or reduced lunch programs, or temporary free lunches due to circumstances, which they rarely sent back.

The school gets penalized for lunches which remain unpaid, they don't want kyds (ages 5-12) going without lunch so they continue to "carry" the kyd(s), they provide all of the appropriate paperwork before school starts for free lunch programs, they continue to offer help (free/reduced) to the lunchless kyds' parents, so I don't really know what else they can be expected to do do when all of their efforts are exhausted and what they have left amounts to an unpaid restaurant tab which someone skipped out on. It was like a virus too, with more and more kyds "forgetting" their lunches and sliding on through the lunch line until they had 40% nonpayment of lunches one semester which had remained unpaid a week or longer and several kyds had not had a lunch paid for since September, while the holiday winter break was fast approaching.

They played around with ideas which seemed fair as well as legal and they came up with some board approved "new lunch rules". The first notice went home with all kyds for the Christmas break, then the same "warning" announcement went home with each and every kyd every day for a week prior to the new implementation. The announcement of the new rules had to be signed and returned by a parent/guardian under the threat of being reported to CPS for non compliance. The new rules went into effect some ten days or so after that last notice and the rule was that ANY child (even first time true forgetters)who didn't bring a lunch from home, have the money to pay for a lunch, or who had his lunch prepaid, was given a peanut butter sandwich and a carton of milk. If this happened on more than three consecutive school days then they would be reported to CPS for potential neglect charges. The "threat" was convincing and offically worded in that ALL school complaints would promptly be investigated by a case worker.

This worked like a CHARM! The guilty parties were welfare whores and in NO WAY wanted CPS knocking on their door opening any investigations or asking any questions as that might delay or put a stop to their ADC check. There were still those who would let the kyd eat a peanut butter sandwich 3 out of five days, but just like everything else they had just learned how to work the system. How LAZY can a whore be to just refuse to fill out the appropriate forms so her kyd can have lunch and likely would qualify for breakfast too? It's OBVIOUS that the poorest of welfare whore could toss a sandwich and an apple into a bag, so basically they didn't give a shit about their kyds' nutritional OR emotional needs. This spoke volumes to me because they obviously didn't have any problems with all of the paperwork which goes along with getting on welfare in the first place, so why the outright refusal to get their kyds fed?

This CLEARLY demonstrates that they are in it for the monthly check and couldn't give a shit less if their kyd has any food while attending school or proper nutrition thoughout the day (and likely night.) This is probably representative as to how the kyd(s) eat or don't eat at home as well. It's simply another, "It's ALL for my kyyyddds!", or "My kyds are the MOST important thing in the world to meeeeeeeee!!!", or "I would do ANYTHING for my kydddsssssss!", myth(s) which has/have been completely busted. I hate welfare whores and the damage that they inflict on their potential adult members of society. It's no small wonder that many of their kyds end up as pre-teen hustlers as hunger can do that to a person. Mix in mutant genes, shitty homelife, a whorish mother, AND poor nutrition and hunger, and you have potential criminals being raised within the public school system. When I hear of a 14 y/o who has been convicted as an adult for killing a store owner for $60 and some change, I often wonder if he was one of those kyds who never had anything to eat.

I HATE welfare whores and their negative impact on society.

Weird, I didn't even know they had "accounts" that could go deliquent now. When I had to endure school lunch (I graduated in '87), you had to pay for your lunch at the end of the line. More often than not, I brought my own lunch, but my parents would buy the school lunch once in a while if it was something I wanted (they'd print the menu in the paper), or if they didn't feel like making a lunch for me for whatever reason. Once I got to middle school, I was responsible for making my own lunch, or informing my parents that we'd need to buy lunch tickets. The cost for school lunches was less than a dollar a day so it was pretty even with a packed lunch.

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me

KFLL and Feh: I graduated in '88, and things were the same as during the time y'all graduated. We got a schedule of what was going to be served in the cafeteria for that month (or week...hell, I can't remember it's been a while), in any case, lunches were between .25 cents to a dollar by the time I got in H.S. Remember, I grew up in Georgia where the cost of living was and still is significantly cheaper than anywhere else in the contiguous states, with the exception of Texas, which is equally as inexpensive to live.

I'd have to say fairly, that I brown-bagged it about 50% of the year, and bought my lunch in the cafeteria the other 50%. But I remember quite liking the cafeteria lunches and liked my moms' prepared lunches equally. Since we knew what was being served each day, the days I preferred something from home, I HELPED my mom make my lunch...key word: HELPED. Of course, I have been working (a TAX PAYING JO since I was 14 years old, so by the time I was in the 8th grade, if I wanted to buy a cafeteria lunch, I was all too proud to pay for it myself. But if I needed the .50 cents or so, naturally my mom gave it to me. After all, I had to save much of my HARD EARNED MONEY to ...*gasp*!!..PAY for my first vehicle. I know I know, don't y'all feel sorry for me, I mean, I had to actually WORK and SAVE my money to buy MY OWN first truck...APPALLING!!!

I don't remember free lunches. You paid cash, and that was that. I remember this for certain though, without a doubt: there was NO breakfast served in school!! You ate breakfast before you left, or you waited until lunch. I just don't get that kids can't eat a little something before leaving for school. That just stumps me, especially with all the easy, quickly-prepared meals available today.

I agree with you guys, what's up with this account nonsense? When I was in school in the 80's, you'd buy a punch card and the cafeteria staff would punch a hole for each day a lunch was purchased. When the holes were all punched, you'd buy a new card. If you forgot your lunch, you got a carton of milk and a PB&J. It was not a big deal, and no one was embarrassed. Geez!

School lunches today are crap anyway. I work with kids and I can tell you that a typical school lunch is a slice of pizza, chocolate milk, and chips. Many schools (that don't provide a lot of free or reduced cost lunches) are now all about letting the kids pick and choose what they want to eat instead of providing a set menu, so naturally most of them are choosing garbage. Then the schools try to teach that eating crap like flavored milk (which has a ton of added sugar) is healthier than drinking no milk at all, which is an outright lie. Oh I could go on and on about this subject!...