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Source: KOMO Seattle
KENT, Wash. -- A father is fuming after his son told him a cafeteria worker at Mill Creek Middle School took back a lunch when the boy didn't have enough to pay for it, then threw it in the garbage.
Jimmie Keys said his son was humiliated when it happened two days in row last week in front of other students.
... Lunches cost 40 cents, and many students pay through a meal account, similar in concept to a debit card. Parents can use credit or debit to load money onto the accounts. Keys' son had just 14 cents remaining on his account when he reached the cashier and had his lunch taken away.
School district spokesperson Chris Loftis said the incident was a terrible mistake that should not have happened. ... Loftis confirmed the father's account of what happened, and acknowledged the cafeteria worker made more than one mistake. The school is required to give any student who cannot pay a free substitute food item like yogurt or cereal. That did not happen.
Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Cafeteria-worker-tosses-childs-lunch-when-hes-26-cents-short-262636571.html
statementofgoods
(68 posts)take care of the account when it happened the first time.
Instead he wanted to take his change jar and throw it at the cafeteria worker or in the school office.
That's just childish on his part.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)statementofgoods
(68 posts)wouldn't feel humiliated again as he said.
TBF
(31,919 posts)of this website before you really step in it. Democratic Underground is for democrats only.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)The parent could have fotgotten or could have been short that week.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)You seem mighty defensive of the actions of the school.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)You are truly amazing? Or are you just suggesting that is would be fine to embarrass your son and leave him hungry for the day because you did so? I don't think you will find many on this board that would ever do such a thing.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)His son probably didn't say anything until the 2nd time because in the past the school notified the father (as required by their policies) so he could rectify it. So the boy probably expected it was fixed after the 1st time and didn't tell his father until they left him hungry a 2nd day.
"Parents are also supposed to receive notification when a meal account is short or about to be. Keys says he never received that notification as he has been for the past two years."
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)should be classified as abuse. It is time this nonsense stopped - children should be fed - period.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Denying children food is abuse plain and simple!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)and deal with the money later or not at all. What is this, the third national incident of throwing kids food away in a school lunch program? What's with these cafeteria workers? I don't get the irrational behavior. It's sick.
FSogol
(45,355 posts)pay for lunch for anyone who needed it. They solicited donations in the main office in a big jar and a local tire dealership dropped off a $20 every Friday for the fund. We'd always dump our change whenever we were in the office.
Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)Food Service...
They don't give a fuck about the kids...its all about the bottom line...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)and that's exactly what the kids learn from this -> don't care-> bottom line.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Why in hell do they not take the kids' money BEFORE they get to the point in the lunch line where the food is? The schools I went to did it that way. Every Army mess hall does it that way. This shit about letting the kid get all the way through the line before they find out his lunch ticket is empty has got to stop.
TBF
(31,919 posts)across the board. Yes, you heard me. FREE. We fund it with property taxes just as we fund the rest of the school expenditures. Grants from federal for economically disadvantaged areas. Enough of this nonsense already.
Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)no more with Private food service...
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)DFW
(54,047 posts)The humiliation of the poor kid. And the glee with which the cafeteria worker must have shown while dumping the kid's lunch in the trash. I would have been more than fuming, I can say that much.