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.
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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.
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.
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:
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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 $28. And I don't have any kids.
Where I come from, the weekly menu was in the paper on Friday evenings. We'd sit down with mom and decide which lunches we wanted. The other days we brown bagged it with whatever mom gave us. Paid for lunch with cash or a ticket. Didn't like what Mom made? It was a long time until dinner.
High school became more of an allowance. I got so much per week and whatever I didn't use for lunches, I got to keep.
Those accounts are awful! The school district where mine went to school would only give you a balance nothing more.
All someone had to know is a student ID or maybe enter a wrong ID and they are charging away....
This is what happened in my case. The lady was scanning the wrong picture and we were getting charged for it. It got corrected on our end, but now there's 130$ outstanding that no one will probably collect.
my kids' school has it all on-line, a lot easier than writing out checks. I get an email when one of them gets under $10 in their account. I just replenished their accounts, $186 for 3 kids, should last about 5 weeks.
On the website, you can see the history of what they bought. Some days they have multiple lunches. "I was hungry". ok
I can't imagine kids with "accounts" for school lunches. We had ticket booklets, color coded by sliding scale. So if the tickets were blue lunch was free, green 25 cents, yellow $1 or something like that. No ticket, you pay $1. No $1, no food: go beg steal or borrow if you're that hungry. Not much in the way of options either. It was like one or two things and pb&j if you don't want what's hot. Never a vegetable in sight either. If fruit was available it cost cash. Vending machines for soda.
But if you got there early enough for breakfast it was free for anyone. :thumbup:
my kids' school has it all on-line, a lot easier than writing out checks. I get an email when one of them gets under $10 in their account. I just replenished their accounts, $186 for 3 kids, should last about 5 weeks.
On the website, you can see the history of what they bought. Some days they have multiple lunches. "I was hungry". ok
My kids accounts were all online too. Loved looking at the history when they were in hs. Son played football and he'd eat three, four lunches then go to the school store and buy a couple of bags of flaming hots and several Gatorades (he was still a skinny thing). The daughter would eat an apple and bottle of water every day, thats it!
I can't imagine kids with "accounts" for school lunches. We had ticket booklets, color coded by sliding scale. So if the tickets were blue lunch was free, green 25 cents, yellow $1 or something like that. No ticket, you pay $1. No $1, no food: go beg steal or borrow if you're that hungry. Not much in the way of options either. It was like one or two things and pb&j if you don't want what's hot. Never a vegetable in sight either. If fruit was available it cost cash. Vending machines for soda.
But if you got there early enough for breakfast it was free for anyone. :thumbup:
We never got free breakfast, but it was really cheap... something like a dollar
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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.
:fp: :fp: :fp:
That you know of.
Tom O.
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
-The Writer
:shock:
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.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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.
SMILE Eddie Vedder Cleveland 06.....
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.
Socialist Act of Treason!!
This is what happened in my case. The lady was scanning the wrong picture and we were getting charged for it. It got corrected on our end, but now there's 130$ outstanding that no one will probably collect.
On the website, you can see the history of what they bought. Some days they have multiple lunches. "I was hungry". ok
But if you got there early enough for breakfast it was free for anyone. :thumbup:
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We never got free breakfast, but it was really cheap... something like a dollar