As far as I'm concerned while under the schools supervision the staff have a duty of care to those children.
Any issues financially is the responsibility of the parent. How can you punish a perfectly innocent child because of this.
This is almost a human rights issue.for me. The children are detained in a place where they are not allowed to leave yet they are forced to starve.
The parents should be punished also but the people in charge of this decision should have their arses sued

 

In my sate law requires they get lunch. About 2% of my small home town has kids on the food assistance program meaning they get 100% or partially free food.

Who the fuck takes food from a child, you keep a record of the meal tab and send it to the parents later.

 

You have to pay to play...guess you have to pay to eat also.

 

What's the alternative? If parents know that no matter what they do with their school-dinner account, the school will always have to provide dinners ... what's the incentive for them to ever put any money in the account at all?

 

Ya, and they don't pay it. And you send reminders and they still don't pay it. What then? Stand the cost yourself and let them get away with it? Take them to court and spend huge amounts of money on lawyers? Or, just stop providing the food?

 

No then the state gets brought in and the kids get taken into social services. That is enough incentive for the parents around here to pay.

 

Also keep in mind that one meal is usually the only one some of those kids get all day.

 

Simple solution, pass a resolution, if it doesn't already exist, that the parent is liable for the amount owed PLUS collection costs. Most states and communities have that provision in their laws right now. But, it actually takes someone to go ahead with the plan.

In the meantime, keep feeding the kids, it sure as hell isn't their fault.

 

This is why you don't punish the kids.

It is taxing my brain cells, but if I remember correctly, when I was in school, the cafeteria provided a sandwich, milk and a dessert to any child who did not have a lunch or lunch money. Several times my brother would say he didn't have money and get the free lunch, then stop at the soda shop on the way home.

But, he didn't think that the folks serving the lunches would ever ask my folks about it, but they did. Man you talk about one sorry SOB, he never dreamed of doing that again.

 

I posted about the kids being turned away, not how much their family makes , learn to read.

 

I remember people stealing kids' lunches when I was in elementary school.

The were called BULLIES.

 

So how about you show us where kids were turned away then.

I posted an article and link documenting what happened in Utah, your turn to link something other than your opinion.

BTW, this is exactly what you posted, it says nothing about kids being turned away.

 

Bottom line is I pay taxes that go to the school district and I don't even have kids. The school can use that money to pay for a kid's lunch instead of wasting it on something like smart boards for the whole school. Use a damn chalk board or white board like we had when I was in school.

 

So you think that those who afford to pay for their kids lunches, shouldn't have to?

 

No, I think if they think they need that assistance they can provide finical proof of need.

 

Sounds like some adults made a childish decision. Simply handled, send form letter home with student, sealed envelope, addressed to parents, explaining it is important to keep their child's meal account funded. If there is a financial concern preventing this, please contact school. To take food away from a child, in front of their peers, give me a break, poor decision. For those that suggest that there is no such thing as a free lunch...you are wrong. Plenty of people eat off other's plates, can't a kid get a scrap?

 

What is a UAV?

 

Now when I was a kid we either took a sack or lunchbox to school or we got the money from our parents to pay and if we did not pay they did not feed us....

We where held responsible not only to figure out how to get the money from mom or dad but also to keep up with it until school and hope some bully did not take it away from us.....

 

"IF YOU LIKE YOUR LUNCH YOU CAN KEEP IT"

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That has very probably already been done, and achieved nothing.

We've had "take the children into social services" as a potential alternative; frankly I think that's even worse. Humiliating the kid in front of his friends at one lunchtime, and making him go hungry for one day; or uprooting him entirely from all of his family and sending him into god-knows-what scenario of fostering?

I don't think denying the children food is a good option. I'm just not sure that I can provide a better one. Sure, you can force the parents (who, after all, are known to have money or we wouldn't be having this debate because the kids would get free meals and there'd be no account!) to be liable; but can you forcibly remove money from them? If it goes to court, you almost certainly won't get your legal costs out of them because even though they'll be liable, they won't have that much money. So ... what do we do?