Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr.
Short of paying for the entire meal program, it may not be possible. Some districts do not allow people to pay for meals/debt that OSS not their own.
When my youngest two kids were in elementary school I used to go eat lunch with them. One of the boys in my son’s class had too much debt and they would not give him food. I tried to pay his debt ($20ish) and they would not let me, so I tried to pay for his meal, not allowed. So we went and sat down at the table and I gave him a twenty. The lunch lady accepted it, but gave me a hassle about it. I told her he found it in his pocket while we were eating.
We saw what our owners(until proven otherwise) do when they don’t want to be found out.
What kind of sick shit do you think they’re doing right now?
I came into the thread prepared to be angry, then they said, “neglecting your child’s right to food”, and honestly, that’s exactly what the parents are doing. If they don’t want to pay for school lunch, pack one. If you want to do neither, choosing not to feed your child at all does sound like neglect, and the school is picking up the slack.
School lunch is so important for learning outcomes, lunch should be covered by tax revenue anyways. I hope we get there one day. But these parents sent their child to school knowing full well how the system works today.
If they don’t have food because they can’t afford it, the kid should just starve rather than the school having to front the cost?
A child not having food security while attending school is a societal failure. If we can afford to spend more than multiple countries combined on our military and send billions in military aid to other countries and have more billionaires than any other country, we can afford to publicly subsidize public school lunch.
Fuck your “they knew how the system worked” stance. That’s a lazy excuse that allows you to blame poor people for being poor rather than challenging the validity of the system.
when my parents didn’t give me lunch money, I just didn’t have lunch - I’m don’t think the lunch room offered a “debt” program, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t going to get a lunch without payment …
EDIT: just to be clear, I’m in favor of free lunches for children (jesus, who would think this needs to be stated) partially because I went without and know what that’s like. I was bullied for eating out of garbage cans, kids younger than me would intentionally spit on their food and destroy their food to try to deny me their leftovers.
I’m just surprised kids are able to get lunch debt - I lived in the South and I suspect the schools just had more right-wing policies (like not even letting kids go into debt to have lunches). I wonder who is responsible for that debt, I would have loved to rack up debt and stick my parents with it (since it was because they were irresponsible and immoral that I was in that situation to begin with - they had plenty of money, they just refused to provide lunches).
We got a peanut butter sandwich and a lecture to bring money in the future.
Every kid should be fed. Use my taxes and feed them little goblins for free at school.
In my elementary school they had a third party company doing lunches. So they would collect money in class for the day then make exactly that number of meals and no more. However, there was pretty much no supervision or tracking at lunch, so every day they would run out of meals before the line ran out and whoever was at the end of the line got a pb sandwich.
Happened very literally every single day.
Seriously fucked up. They could feed all those kids for free for a fraction of what it would cost the state to forcibly put them in foster care.
I’m always reminded that the cruelty IS the point.
What narrative exactly are you accusing people of feeding? The Narrative that school lunch debt is bad? You don’t like that narrative?
Its always the .world users I swear.
In this case it excludes that this was an isolated district, the policy was rapidly corrected after this became public, and it’s a story from over half a decade ago. It also leaves out how this was universally objected to, and it misrepresents the actual contents of the letter:
It warned that the parents could be taken to Dependency Court as a result of failing to send their child to school without either money or food.
“If you are taken to Dependency Court, the result may be your child being removed from your home and placed in foster care,” the letter read.
which was pointedly that if you cant feed your kid, you may have to prove you can safely care for them. A shit situation yes, but it was not “pay your lunch debt or we’ll take your kid away”.
Yeah, this headline being reposted is pushing a narrative. And man you know what, in my experience the people that dismiss other users because of their instance are generally the problem. Othering people is pretty much always bad.
They don’t want to understand 🤣
Asking ‘what narrative’ on a late stage capital post isn’t in good faith. They are trolling you.
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