Elementary Students Already Racking Up Cafeteria Debt!!

[dannno]

Maybe they can consolidate it with their student loans after they go to college

Students Racking Up Cafeteria Debt

Ann Dornfeld
02/10/2012

Many school districts are switching to electronic payment systems in their cafeterias. Parents can fund their kids' accounts online and even see what their kids are buying for lunch. But kids can also charge food when there's no money in their accounts. Now Seattle Public Schools is trying to collect $12,000 in unpaid lunchroom debt.

More:

http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=25943

 

[dannno]

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[The One]

Learning young...

 

[phill4paul]

Sigh..Grrrr..AHAAA!!!!!!..fuuuuuuuuu

I don't really know what to express over these kind of things anymore.

 

[dannno]

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[heavenlyboy34]

your government at work!

 

[nano1895]

how...

 

[Lucille]

LOL...

I can't wait until this whole filthy system comes crashing down.

 

[NidStyles]

A nation of people perpetually in debt is nation where one who is not in debt is suspect and possibly criminal.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

My comment is in progress

There we go...

 

[flightlesskiwi]

school district where my nephew goes has been doing the electronic thing for a long time.

they do enforce a 12$ limit, and it is a very small school district.

if the student reaches that limit, they get a piece of cheese between 2 slices of white bread and some water. which is probably healthier than the school lunch offered.

publik skool rox.

 

[donnay]

school district where my nephew goes has been doing the electronic thing for a long time.

they do enforce a 12$ limit, and it is a very small school district.

if the student reaches that limit, they get a piece of cheese between 2 slices of white bread and some water. which is probably healthier than the school lunch offered.

publik skool rox.

So true. My niece's school pushes the "free breakfast/lunch" program. The more children a school gets the more federal funds they get!

 

[flightlesskiwi]

oh, they do that in my nephew's district.. and he's on the program. it think something like 55 or 65% of the kids are.

i never ate school lunch-- my mom always packed us a lunch until i was in high school, and then my grandparents lived in a house across the parking lot (we could leave campus) and i'd walk over there for lunch. i loved seeing my grandpa every day (except during lawn mowing season, he did that for extra money) -- and my grandparents always had good things for me to eat.

So true. My niece's school pushes the "free breakfast/lunch" program. The more children a school gets the more federal funds they get!

 

[donnay]

oh, they do that in my nephew's district.. and he's on the program. it think something like 55 or 65% of the kids are.

i never ate school lunch-- my mom always packed us a lunch until i was in high school, and then my grandparents lived in a house across the parking lot (we could leave campus) and i'd walk over there for lunch. i loved seeing my grandpa every day (except during lawn mowing season, he did that for extra money) -- and my grandparents always had good things for me to eat.

My mother did the same. In High school we were one step away from maximum security prison. I hated public school!!!

 

[tropicangela]

They did this last year at my kids' school, but now they don't charge the account and only serve the kids bread with cheese in it if their parents don't refill their account.