Ohio school denies cheesy breadsticks to 9-year-old birthday boy because of school lunch debt Jefferson, who recently celebrated his ninth birthday, had a pretty terrible day. In fact, the student at Green Primary School in Green, Ohio, near Canton, called it the worst birthday ever. Why? As his grandmother, Diane Bailey alleges, Jeffrey’s lunch—including cheesy breadsticks— was taken away because his school lunch account had gone negative. “I got my cheesy breadsticks and put in my number,” Jefferson told ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland. “And when I was going to check out, the lunch lady didn’t say anything, took away my cheesy breadsticks and sauce, put them over there, and took out bread on cheese from the fridge and put it on my tray.” Spoiler Afterward, he came home and told his grandmother. Now she’s speaking out and hoping for real change so more kids aren’t humiliated in the school cafeteria. Jefferson had come home with a letter from the school stating that his account was in the negative a few days before the incident. Along with his two brothers, he had moved to Ohio just a month ago to live with their grandmother. Bailey explained that, while the children are supposed to all qualify for free and reduced lunch, she had been advised by the school administration that she could write a check to cover the lunch balance until the paperwork went through. “In my mind, he didn’t owe anything. I owed the money, the parents, the school district,” Bailey said. “And my other question is, if they take the food off of your tray, they have to throw it away. You would take the food off a tray and you can’t reserve it? You’re going to throw it away and not feed the child? That doesn’t make sense to me.” This is a good point. It doesn’t make sense mainly because, as all too often feels the norm today, the cruelty is the point. Julie McMahan, director of communications and community relations for Green Local Schools, told ABC News that the school has changed its guidelines. Now, no child from kindergarten through 12th grade will be given an alternative lunch (e.g., a cold cheese sandwich) over balances owed. Whether or not this would have changed without viral outrage is unknown, but it’s wonderful to see a step forward. Before the story went viral, things had looked less hopeful. “We are reviewing all of those specifics. We’re considering the idea of raising that debt cap from 15 to make sure that the student experience is positive in the lunchroom,” Assistant Superintendent Alana Niemiec said. For big-picture discussion, this point is still worth parsing out. What’s wrong with just lifting the amount? Raising a cap perhaps gives parents a little more room to breathe, but for people who are struggling to cover school lunches, it’s just keeping the cycle of stress and shame alive—especially for families with more than one child going to school. Ultimately, these shaming practices need to end—countless studies confirm that kids do better in school and exhibit better behavior when they’re fed. Beyond this, it’s simply the ethical and humane thing to do. It’s well past time for schools to move beyond shaming and punishment. Some more hope? Democrats from Minnesota, Sen. Tina Smith and Rep. Ilhan Omar, introduced a bill a few months ago to combat school lunch debt shaming. The bill would ban practices that single out or punish students who have lunch debt. Schools that don’t shame hungry kids would be reimbursed by the federal government for the cost of the meals. And kids wouldn’t be hungry! What a thought.
Turns out prerecordedlive 's boy is a big part of this Orlando Airport scandal. Shocking. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/pol...0190911-2gvtnnqc5rhjlblckwij3hwuhu-story.html
Elections have consequences. I fucking hate this states politics, and if I wasn’t so close with my family I would’ve been gone
This appears almost daily in the Facebook posts of about half of my high school classmates. Of course, ADOS was created by libertarians (edit: and anti-immigrant groups) to dupe dim witted Hoteps and Hoteptresses...so it’s not a total surprise.
Shame on my for the effort in futility to rationalize libertarian concepts, however - I get the anti immigrant aspect. But how does a self righteous market dictates everything libertarian make an argument for ADOS? Any special treatment or reparations due to the ADOS would be provided by the market, right?
I don’t think it has to make sense. I’ve seen ADOS folks advocate for loose gun laws because “they’ll take them from black folks first.” I’ve seen them argue against foreign policy because “they owe us reparations that they’re spending on other countries.” I’ve seen them argue that all forms of taxation are explicitly regressive and aimed at diluting wealth from the black community. Hoteps/Herteps are amazingly awful people.
Willing to wager the link between Matt Gaetz and Jason Pirozollo and Randall Hunt is Matty has sucked them both to completion and since they had the tastiest cocks, he had to recommend them to his buddy, Ronald.
Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing “extraordinary” favors for Trump vox.com/2019/9...
Sounds like someone needs to slap Glenn Grothman around to me. Those people who testified are brave and truly more American than anyone who votes republican or identifies as Republican
This is by far one of the funniest bits of the Deep State nonsense. McCabe is accused of lying about...actually leaking information that was damaging to HRC.
People did it to PCH here, and it wasn’t great. I was incorrect about Beeds07, so I apologized and shut up.
I was behind. But so you know cane knight and mister me too are also black. It was 3 black guys thinking another black guy who they disagree with wasn’t black because well I am not going to go there.
So people dying went to make their case before a group of people that have the power to decide whether they live or die? If I didn’t know any better I would say this comes across like a death panel but there’s no way that the “pro-life” party would do such a thing.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Russia has the resources to do this for their own consumption, much less for export, even less to fill the gap the US left open
couldn't this end up being really bad for trump if it goes to an actual trial w/discovery and all that good shit?