school lunch debt

[tjshorty]

Did you see that a Wyoming school is threatening families that have lunch debt with Foster Care.  What they heck is this world coming to?  My opinion of this is very negative.  I think I would home school my kids these days.  Public schools,  leave a lot to be desired.  Teachers paying out of pocket for supplies.  Bullying.  Then kids having to burden something that is out of their control like eating.  What are your thoughts on this threat?

[pectacon]

I saw a short thing about this on the news and in the same breath it said they said nevermind about the foster care thing. They are still going to try to collect the money some other way though.

[debidoo]

I worked for the school district in my area for 14 1/2 years and at one point in there took my kids out and my husband who was disabled home schooled them. They can't afford to feed kids lunch but in my district they bought the most expensive office furniture and office supplies for the "big wigs"  I finally quit I couldn't take it anymore.  Children of illegals in our area get free lunch but no one else.  It is all a big scam

[countrygirl12]

Did you see that a Wyoming school is threatening families that have lunch debt with Foster Care.  What they heck is this world coming to?  My opinion of this is very negative.  I think I would home school my kids these days.  Public schools,  leave a lot to be desired.  Teachers paying out of pocket for supplies.  Bullying.  Then kids having to burden something that is out of their control like eating.  What are your thoughts on this threat?

Maybe they should do like when I was in school. Either bring your lunch or bring money to buy lunch or do without.  Parents need to buck up and be parents and pay for their child's lunch not expect the tax payer to shelter the cost.

As for bullying that is nothing new.  Has went on for 100 years.

[countrygirl12]

I worked for the school district in my area for 14 1/2 years and at one point in there took my kids out and my husband who was disabled home schooled them. They can't afford to feed kids lunch but in my district they bought the most expensive office furniture and office supplies for the "big wigs"  I finally quit I couldn't take it anymore.  Children of illegals in our area get free lunch but no one else.  It is all a big scam

It is not the school's place to provide lunch free of charge.  Parents need to be parents and provide for their kids. Too many pop em out left and right them want everything just handed to them. The kid grows up thinking everything should be handed to them because that is what lazy mommy and baby daddy taught them.  It needs to stop.

[madeara]

The threat is awful, tragic and horrifying.

[catchow]

Did you see that a Wyoming school is threatening families that have lunch debt with Foster Care.  What they heck is this world coming to?  My opinion of this is very negative.  I think I would home school my kids these days.  Public schools,  leave a lot to be desired.  Teachers paying out of pocket for supplies.  Bullying.  Then kids having to burden something that is out of their control like eating.  What are your thoughts on this threat?

Please get your facts correct. IT WAS NOT A WYOMING SCHOOL!!  I lived in Wyoming for 30 years, so yes your info upsets me

 It happened at the Wyoming Valley West School District which is a Pennsylvania school

[tnshpalmer85]

I read the story about the threats to parents and I just thought it was so sad. I can not believe the school had the audacity to make such a threat. That must have been so stressful for the parents to receive that letter.

[vickysue]

I have no  children in school. But we  did  buy their lunches  every month, K-12. But now here in this school district all lunches are provided.  They budget it into the  school budget. So all children get  fed. If your  child  (high school) wants to eat off campus that is fine unless they are late getting back. Every school should  do the same thing. But so many want the  most expensive  stuff for their offices. It is a shame that a child suffers because of it.

[countrygirl12]

Did you see that a Wyoming school is threatening families that have lunch debt with Foster Care.  What they heck is this world coming to?  My opinion of this is very negative.  I think I would home school my kids these days.  Public schools,  leave a lot to be desired.  Teachers paying out of pocket for supplies.  Bullying.  Then kids having to burden something that is out of their control like eating.  What are your thoughts on this threat?

Please get your facts correct. IT WAS NOT A WYOMING SCHOOL!!  I lived in Wyoming for 30 years, so yes your info upsets me

 It happened at the Wyoming Valley West School District which is a Pennsylvania school

No need to get so bent out of shape. Who cares if something negative happened in a state you lived in. Sounds like an honest mistake to me.

[countrygirl12]

I have no  children in school. But we  did  buy their lunches  every month, K-12. But now here in this school district all lunches are provided.  They budget it into the  school budget. So all children get  fed. If your  child  (high school) wants to eat off campus that is fine unless they are late getting back. Every school should  do the same thing. But so many want the  most expensive  stuff for their offices. It is a shame that a child suffers because of it.

There are budgets for office furniture as well.  Our county the kids all eat free unless they want extra.  And most of them do.  So then they cry when they are denied that because they have already used everything in their account.  There is no way for them to win.

The school cannot make the decision to put the child in foster care because the school lunch account has been depleted. They can report that the parent has an over due account.  OR not let the child keep charging.  OR next year your kid cannot enroll in school until delinquent accounts are brought to a zero balance. OR turn it over to a collection agency.  No matter what they do people are going to cry foul.

I agree 100% parents need to take responsibility for their kids.  And if you have a child and are on welfare you should be sterilized so you cannot keep having kids you obviously cannot afford to raise. Yes that will upset a lot of people. Oh well.  If you cannot make good decisions then decisions need to be made for you.

[rghvac69]

My mom used to make me a lunch when I was a young kid. PBJ, chips, and an apple. Sometimes I would get a Slim Jim in my lunch as something extra. Inexpensive and easy to make.

[ancmetro]

 Wyoming: Shame on you! In my state-Alaska-school lunches are free for all kids.
 There are also food banks where they can get free food, thanks to the generosity of
 some supermarkets like Walmart, Carrs and other major food stores.
 Kids need good meals to develop healthy bodies and minds.

[aflyingmonkey]

Threatening foster care is a bit much... so pathetic, but really parents need to feed their kids.   The poor kids already get their lunch paid for by the state, it's kids that parents aren't responsible enough to make sure their kids have enough money on their card to pay for lunch or kids who spend their money on extras through out the week & run out by the end of the week.   No child should be left hungry if they don't have money or no food... perhaps the PTA could fund raise & use the money towards school lunches for their school. Where is all that lottery money that was supposed to supplement schools.

In California teachers get reimbursed if they have to purchase school supplies, also they can write it off on their income tax. 

[countrygirl12]

Threatening foster care is a bit much... so pathetic, but really parents need to feed their kids.   The poor kids already get their lunch paid for by the state, it's kids that parents aren't responsible enough to make sure their kids have enough money on their card to pay for lunch or kids who spend their money on extras through out the week & run out by the end of the week.   No child should be left hungry if they don't have money or no food... perhaps the PTA could fund raise & use the money towards school lunches for their school. Where is all that lottery money that was supposed to supplement schools.

In California teachers get reimbursed if they have to purchase school supplies, also they can write it off on their income tax. 

The lottery money for schools goes to scholarships for college education. Not for grade school kid lunch programs.

It is not the schools fault if they kid spends all their money for the week (in their account) on ice cream and extras by Wednesday.  Learn responsibility.  It needs to be like when I was in school.  You purchase a meal ticket and each day you have to present the meal ticket and a punch is taken off.  You get one meal and nothing extra. If you lose your meal ticket you have to purchase another one.  RESPONSIBILITY! 

As far as getting paid back for supplies teachers purchase that is not true.  Yes, they get x amount (not a very high amount) to purchase supplies for their classroom.  As far as "writing it off your taxes" it doesn't make a difference.  Very few people have enough stuff to "write off" to go above the standard deduction.  Teachers should not have to supply a lot of things they do anyway.  We had a list of supplies we needed.  Once we were doing a project and needed a composition notebook.  That was on the list of supplies.  So every kid had to purchase their own composition notebook for the project.  And every kid did.  There may have been one or two supposedly too poor to get one and I guess the teacher got it for them and nobody knew the difference.  I have a specific kid in mind.  Yeah they got every freebie coming and going. But they also drove new cars. So there ya go.

And lastly, the PTA (do you even know what that is) is not responsible for raising money to pay for items for kids whose parents are too lazy to pay their own way.  People are tired of the ones who are always asking for a hand out.  It's like the county I live in.  There is a man who is all gung ho about the Habitat for Humanity and has all these big ideas and thinks the county citizens are just gonna jump behind him and make all these donations.  NO, people are tired of funding the lazy who refuse to work.  Or instead of paying their bills and necessitates waste the money on lottery tickets, beer, cigarettes, or $60 eating out when they get paid and then want somebody else to pay the electric bill and rent.