School Lunches

81

SVRDhand13 wrote:

School District taxes are insane in NYC!!!

My kid is going to public school thats for sure

if you don't have kids, you should get a 75% discount on school taxes.

RKCNDY

81 wrote:

we had our choice....lunch for X amount in cash, or nothing.

We paid $0.95 for lunch. What they were serving was your only choice. Nothing else.

Junior high you could pick burgers fries etc. Some girl really wanted to be my friend and tried to bribe me to be her friend by taking me thru the lunch line...her mom was the head lunch lady.

Dissidentman wrote:

Can they buy alcohol and cigarettes with these cards?

I'm sure they buy junk food with the cards and then go out to the smoking pit and trade food for smokes and beer with the homeless guy...so essentially yes.

rick1zoo2

I don't remember school

RKCNDY

81 wrote:

SVRDhand13 wrote:

School District taxes are insane in NYC!!!

My kid is going to public school thats for sure

if you don't have kids, you should get a 75% discount on school taxes.

THIS^^^

people already get tax credits for having kids, they should pay more for resources they use. I looked at my property taxes and close to 68% of it goes to 'education' and related entities. So I am paying for a bunch of shit I will never use. Don't start that 'investing in the future' crap either, I already 'invested' in a kid who told me my house smells great. :roll:

rick1zoo2

it takes a village

pandora

LloydXmas wrote:

My wife and I just got a 110$ bill from the school district for my 5 year old. :fp:

She makes his lunch every day :fp: :fp:

oh my gosh I never heard of this, that's just wrong.

oceaninmyeyes

LloydXmas wrote:

My old man thinks it's hilarious. He said paybacks a bitch.

81

RKCNDY wrote:

people already get tax credits for having kids, they should pay more for resources they use. I looked at my property taxes and close to 68% of it goes to 'education' and related entities. So I am paying for a bunch of shit I will never use. Don't start that 'investing in the future' crap either, I already 'invested' in a kid who told me my house smells great. :roll:

68%....i'll have to check mine...i think it's about half. maybe a bit more.

last time i loooked, i calcualted how much was going to pensions. :fp:

stupid fuckin .gov. :fp:

bionicamy

RKCNDY wrote:

I remember back when all the kids got was a book of tickets and a calendar menu.

Enchalada Day! Don't like enchaladas? Good! you get to bring your lunch, forgot your lunch? too bad, you get to starve! When I was in HS, we had to pay with cash, no cash? There was no option to 'put it on my tab'.


Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to let kids run rampant with a lunch card, pick and choose what they want, then run up a bill should be shot. Obviously, the kids aren't learning how to budget the money on their cards.

Yes we has punch cards and the nuns did not mess around.
It was like a undercover mission to the garbage cans to dare throw away anything uneaten.... If they caught you they spun you right back around and made sure you ate your lunch. And yes HS was cash if you forgot money you simply didn't eat.

The elementary school my kids went to didn't care what the kids ate.... Only want chicken and fries fine no need for a veg or a salad.....they would feed the kids half the lunch for the same price.

The kids have to put in student id's for the lunch account. Same thing happened to my oldest.... He always packed his lunch but we still ended up with charges... Only difference was we never got a bill, his report card just never came :fp:

JonnyPistachio

RKCNDY wrote:

I remember back when all the kids got was a book of tickets and a calendar menu.

Enchalada Day! Don't like enchaladas? Good! you get to bring your lunch, forgot your lunch? too bad, you get to starve! When I was in HS, we had to pay with cash, no cash? There was no option to 'put it on my tab'.


Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to let kids run rampant with a lunch card, pick and choose what they want, then run up a bill should be shot. Obviously, the kids aren't learning how to budget the money on their cards.

Mine was the same way. The burgers tasted so weird. I stopped eating it one day when I bit into something hard and it looked like a small human tooth. Gross.

StillHere

Thing I remember most about HS lunch is never having enough time to actually finish it by the time you got done in line. Nevermind about time for more. One choice only. Nothing fancy.

LloydXmas

Interesting that this is in the news today

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/us/massac ... index.html


Schoolkids told: No lunch money, no lunch
By Ben Brumfield, CNN


A A A (resize font)
(CNN) - Sorry, kid. No money, no lunch.

Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if they had a negative balance on their pre-paid lunch cards.

Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees at the Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported.

About 25 children left the lunchroom with empty stomachs, said Whitson's Culinary Group in a statement. The company runs the school's cafeteria.

Parents were appalled. So was the principal. So was Whitson's.

"I told them this is bullying; that's neglect, child abuse," said parent Jo-An Blanchard.

Principal Andrew Boles apologized and blamed the culinary company. "My expectation is that every child, every adult, every parent, every student, every teacher is respected in this building, and that didn't happen yesterday because of Whitson's," he told WJAR.

Whitson's apologized in a statement and said it was not company policy to deny meals to children. It added that the school district had no official policy on what to do in such situations.

"Employees had taken it upon themselves to institute this change; it was not condoned or approved," said Whitson spokeswoman Holly Von Seggern. "We had absolutely no idea."

Workers in the school's cafeteria work on a contract basis, Boles said. He thinks the decision came from Whitson's.

Whitson's supplies 80 schools in New England with lunch meals, Von Seggern said. CNN could find no previous reports on similar incidents involving the company.

Kids with a negative balance usually receive "a cheese sandwich, a fruit and vegetable, and milk." Then the company contacts the parents about payment.

Jason P

81 wrote:

you shoud see the bills i get from the school district, and i don't even have kids :fp:

I like when I'm almost finished with my state taxes and it shows a $1,500 refund due ... and the last thing I have to do is type in my local school district ... and the refund goes from $1,500 to $28. And I don't have any kids.

:fp: :fp: :fp:

peacefrompaul

When I was in high school, if the account ran out, you were fucked. They didn't give a fuck if you ate or not.

JK_Livin

Jason P wrote:

81 wrote:

you shoud see the bills i get from the school district, and i don't even have kids :fp:

I like when I'm almost finished with my state taxes and it shows a $1,500 refund due ... and the last thing I have to do is type in my local school district ... and the refund goes from $1,500 to $28. And I don't have any kids.

:fp: :fp: :fp:

That you know of.

Jason P

JK_Livin wrote:

Jason P wrote:

81 wrote:

you shoud see the bills i get from the school district, and i don't even have kids :fp:

I like when I'm almost finished with my state taxes and it shows a $1,500 refund due ... and the last thing I have to do is type in my local school district ... and the refund goes from $1,500 to $28. And I don't have any kids.

:fp: :fp: :fp:

That you know of.

:think:

:shock:

MaxGoldenrod

Accounts and prepaid lunch cards? WTF?

Where I come from, the weekly menu was in the paper on Friday evenings. We'd sit down with mom and decide which lunches we wanted. The other days we brown bagged it with whatever mom gave us. Paid for lunch with cash or a ticket. Didn't like what Mom made? It was a long time until dinner.

High school became more of an allowance. I got so much per week and whatever I didn't use for lunches, I got to keep.

bionicamy

MaxGoldenrod wrote:

Accounts and prepaid lunch cards? WTF?

Where I come from, the weekly menu was in the paper on Friday evenings. We'd sit down with mom and decide which lunches we wanted. The other days we brown bagged it with whatever mom gave us. Paid for lunch with cash or a ticket. Didn't like what Mom made? It was a long time until dinner.

High school became more of an allowance. I got so much per week and whatever I didn't use for lunches, I got to keep.

Those accounts are awful! The school district where mine went to school would only give you a balance nothing more.
All someone had to know is a student ID or maybe enter a wrong ID and they are charging away....
The ladies didn't like the kids paying in cash either... Probably a hassle.

School taxes ha! it's the battle of the newest biggest flashiest schools. At least I moved my taxes out for 5 or 6 years to a charter school. I would keep sending my school tax money there even after my kids graduate if I could. The two schools are different as night and day.

rearviewross

My kids school robocalls every Sunday night and sends an email to notify me that our account is under $7. Its pretty annoying.

I cant get my kid to eat his lunch, kindergartner. He always comes home with half a sandwich and maybe ate his goldfish crackers. Says he doesnt have time to eat, gotta get out to recess.

rearviewross

Jason P wrote:

81 wrote:

you shoud see the bills i get from the school district, and i don't even have kids :fp:

I like when I'm almost finished with my state taxes and it shows a $1,500 refund due ... and the last thing I have to do is type in my local school district ... and the refund goes from $1,500 to $28. And I don't have any kids.

:fp: :fp: :fp:

Socialist Act of Treason!!