Utah elementary students have lunch taken away

[MWCGuy]

You have got to be kidding me. Yes, lunches need to be paid for but, seizing the lunch trays is a little over the top.


Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary | The Salt Lake Tribune

[kelroy55]

That is beyond crazy.... everybody knows they should have made those kids sweep and mop the floors during their lunch time to pay for that milk and fruit.

[Plutonic Panda]

That is beyond crazy.... everybody knows they should have made those kids sweep and mop the floors during their lunch time to pay for that milk and fruit.

That's kind of messed up.... isn't that what we pay for taxes for? lol

not trying to come off as argumentative or anything just fyi

[Of Sound Mind]

That's kind of messed up.... isn't that what we pay for taxes for? lol

not trying to come off as argumentative or anything just fyi

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious.

[RadicalModerate]

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious.

Could you remind me of the qualitative difference between facetious and fatuous? =)
(just kidding, amigo =)

[Mississippi Blues]

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious.

People seem to miss that so much. It's kind of a thing.

[RadicalModerate]

That's kind of messed up.... isn't that what we pay for taxes for? lol

not trying to come off as argumentative or anything just fyi

Let that be a lesson t' ya' . . . aboot font alteration an' whatnot . . . =)
(never forget that "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" has a reach extending far beyond that of The Misguided, Inbred Gullible Hailing from Westboro, Kansas. =)

(I feel confident in making a comment such as that, on account of one of my mother's sisters is a [Mormon, nee Christian/reformed Baptist or whatever] and her demanding, deceased, husband was the only person that my Dad (a wandering Lut'rin) couldn't stand to go fishing with. Mormon's have some "religious objection to coffee, fer cryin' out loud . . . or at least "they" used to . . .)

[Achilleslastand]

That is beyond crazy.... everybody knows they should have made those kids sweep and mop the floors during their lunch time to pay for that milk and fruit.

You never miss an opportunity to take a swipe do you Killjoy..........

[kelroy55]

You never miss an opportunity to take a swipe do you Killjoy..........

Nope... I'll take a swipe at stupidity every time.

[Achilleslastand]

Nope... I'll take a swipe at stupidity every time.

Really?
I posted in a similar thread that in High School I swept and mopped floors for a discount on tuition. And being that a single parent was paying for this I had no problems with doing so.

So why the snide comment?

[GoOKC1991]

Lunch taken away from students at Utah elementary school - CNN.com

[RadicalModerate]

Do they have Homeland Grocery Stores in Utah?
Over in the sort of anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive organic area they have freeze-dried "whole okra 'chips'" that taste just like the best fried okra you ever dun et'. (no kidding)

Rumor has it that they were going to try to market them with the tag: So Lent Green . . .
but focus groups didn't respond positively to that label so it never took off.

[OKCisOK4me]

Do they have Homeland Grocery Stores in Utah?

Out west they're Safeways.

[Mel]

I think they could have handled this without embarrassing the kids. It's the parents duty to keep up with this.

[Prunepicker]

I think they could have handled this without embarrassing the kids. It's the
parents duty to keep up with this.

There is no reason for the government to provide lunch for anyone. Parents
need to pull their heads out. Period.

[Achilleslastand]

There is no reason for the government to provide lunch for anyone. Parents
need to pull their heads out. Period.

Amen to that.......
Even up thru HS if you didn't have a buck or 2 guess what you didn't eat. That responsibility lies with the parents not the school.

[Prunepicker]

I can't think of a reason for parents not providing lunch for their kids.

Not a single reason. In fact I'm trying to remember the kids that did
without lunch when I was in school. Not a single student went hungry.
Their parents provided for them. Of course that was during the days when
parents were more concerned about their kids than their drug addiction.