UTAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOSSES KIDS LUNCH TO THE BUSHES

[Ain't That Something]

Parents are angry with Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City after workers took lunches from up to 40 kids with unpaid balances and threw them away, several media outlets reported.

Salt Lake City District spokesman Jason Olsen told the Salt Lake Tribune that parents with balances were contacted via phone Monday and Tuesday. They weren't able to reach all parents before the child-nutrition manager decided to withhold lunches to deal with the debts.

"She took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" Sophia Isom, a fifth-grader at the school, told NBC affiliate KSL.com. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Isom's mom, Erica Likes, described the situation as "despicable" and "traumatic" for the children involved.

Olsen told the Tribune that cafeteria workers were unable to see which students owed money until after they received their lunches, which is why the workers then took them away. They were disposed of because once food is served to a student it can't be served to another, the Tribune reported

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/01/30/utah-school-lunch-taken/5053635/

 

[StickStickly]

What did these kids look like

 

[Ain't That Something]

What did these kids look like

Don't know but they would have to expel me as a kid bc ain't no way you taking my lunch away and leave me starving all day.

 

[duck]

prisoners get 3 meals a day for free... and innocent kids starve while they watch their lunch get tossed in the trash

...only in america

 

[ltheghost]

What a bunch of fukking a$$holes...throwing away kid's food. Targeting the poor kids.

 

[606onit]

 

[Giselle]

The parents should have paid or packed their child a lunch.

 

[SuikodenII]

prisoners get 3 meals a day for free... and innocent kids starve while they watch their lunch get tossed in the trash

...only in america

'Murica

 

[invincible1914]

The parents should have paid or packed their child a lunch.

I feel you, but they why couldn't they just charge the parents the $1.20 or whatever the small amount was.
(We used to have to pay lunch until my mom got slick with the paperwork .... free lunch all through middle school and high school )


Edit: Lol at snatching those lil kids food and throwing it away right in their face... like they understood what was going on

 

[Inglewood]

*Reads story*
*Reads the thread starter name*

Well aint that something

 

[Batman]

I thought kids get those free lunches because their parents were on welfare.

So why do they bill the parents instead of the state?

 

[Giselle]

prisoners get 3 meals a day for free... and innocent kids starve while they watch their lunch get tossed in the trash

...only in america

I thought that people paid for that through taxes.

 

[duck]

I thought that people paid for that through taxes.

they do... and schools are paid thru taxes as well

we got our tax dollars spend on alot of bullshyt. ie) bank bailouts, tax breaks on companies who lay off americans to hire overseas ect

so there is no reason we can't cut the bullshyt and feed our kids

 

[The Burger King]

"She took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" Sophia Isom, a fifth-grader at the school, told NBC affiliate KSL.com. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

C'MON NOW THINK ABOUT THE KIDS

 

[mrken12]

Whether or not I have sympathy is predicated on the general phenotype of the people involved.