I had this happen to me back in middle school. I had 0$ on my lunch account. The lunch lady literally took the tray out of my hand and gave me a tray with a pb&j. I told her I was allergic but she told me to go sit down or that I'd have to serve a detention everyday until I could add money into my account. I threw away the sandwich, I was allergic to it. The lady got mad and said I had detention later. I didn't get a chance to make a call home to my parents. So later my mom came inside the school looking for me. At first she was mad and thought I did something. Then I told her what happened and hell broke loose between my mom and the teachers....
Imma Turkey I don't know man, I'd kinda be scared shitless cause of them pens costing now at 500 dollars a pop and also I'd be to chicken shit at taking the risk and suffication.
Let me get this straight, kids are required by law to attend school and the parents have to pay for their lunch or pack one for them. Prisoners get 3 meals per-day and it's funded by taxpayers. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
Because one, Prisoners have NO MEANS of paying for it, being locked up and all. 2. Prison food is terrible. Worse than school food for sure, therefore cheaper. 3. There are food programs for school for free/reduced lunch if you are poor enough. If he wasn't poor enough, he has to pay for food. Why is the concept of a free person having to pay for products with scaling prices from parents salary a problem?
We shouldn't drain even more of taxpayer money into school lunches, in fact, we already do. There are specific financial aid programs dedicated to parents who can't afford school lunches.
The public humiliation is the worst part of it. Exposing the kids to the mockery of their peers for something they have no influence on. Sitting down at the table with an 'alternative meal' is humiliating already.
Try to walk out of a grocery store without paying for your food and see what happens to you. It's not humiliation, it's real life. If you owe money, you don't eat until you pay. It really is that simple.
@@theoriginaldashriprockShowing the world you've always lived in privilege and cannot have empathy for anyone. Despite someone's best efforts, some people don't have the good luck to be able to afford even the necessities of life. Anything can happen to anyone and ruin their financial security. I hope that if you are ever in need, that someone is there to help you & not pass harsh judgement upon yourself & situation. Matthew 25: 35-40 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
@@theoriginaldashriprock So the kid has to endure the humiliation because the parents didn't pay the bill? No kid should go hungry. You are a poor excuse for a human.
My son's school doesn't let you register for the next school year if you owe any money, or still have books from the previous school year. However, they also don't let you have any lunch, even an "alternative lunch". They failed to process a payment for my youngest and he ended up eating ramen that he got from the secretary. I never received a call. I spoke to the principal the next afternoon, he apologized, and the lunch issue was fixed. No child should go hungry. Some families eat once a day, and that tiny school lunch is it. Shame on them, and shame on our government for spending so much money on war and prisons, and so little on our future.
My kids’ school in Georgia provides free cheese sandwiches or peanut butter sandwiches and fresh fruit for kids who are more than $30 in debt on their account, but they never make a child go hungry. I don’t know if it’s just our school system or a statewide thing.
Feed your own kids. If a family is only eating once a day the parents aren't doing their job idc what you say. You don't pay, you don't eat. Be a responsible parent and make sure you kid has lunch money. It's not hard to do the math and know how long the money will last. Lazy parenting, playing the victim.
@@dajb90 oh, so you're one of those poor people don't exist types. Feel free to exit the conversation as you have nothing constructive to add. I would also recommend some empathy training, and maybe some volunteer social work to help open your closed mind. Not everyone can have the prosperous life you clearly have had. I have the money to make sure I have shelter, food, and clothes for my children. This does not mean my neighbor has access to the same. It is why food pantries, low income housing, and other similar services exist. I pray for your enlightenment. Edited to correct auto correct 🙄
I had my tray taken out of my hands because I was 10 cents short to pay for it in high school. Bunch of kids saw it and only one student offered to give me money to eat. I love how schools think it’s okay to let a child go hungry during school.
@@kellymetcalf3690 Two wrongs don’t make a right. Why should my tax dollars pay for free lunches for the children of Drs and lawyers? And I suspect you’re wearing a red hat.
So if he had the money to give her, why not just give the $27 and that would be the problem solved, clearly the kid has money, so instead of acting like a "rebel", pay your damn debt. In the real world, if you don't have the money, you don't get what you want, kids should be taught that.
RobAntDen the kids aren't the ones who refill it.. parents do online or on phone by credit card to the lunch ladies. Many times they do not tell the kids either until they are over the maximum limit. What's sad is many kids don't qualify because their parents both work but they fall into the We make enough to pay our bills but can only afford dinner. The guidelines need to reward those trying to make.. the actual tax payers but instead if you don't work you get free food, free money, free phones, free transportation, free medical, free housing.. seriously things need to be reevaluated. Without a doubt help those in true need bit don't punish the ones barely hanging above the bread line!
Shy Kiagana Well that’s the thing, we need to be harsher on illegals that come here, and Canada gets by just fine, and so does most of Europe, Europe was fine until their government betrayed their citizens, and in some ways that’s how I feel about the US gov, I consider myself a bit of a nationalist, but the way the gov does things is not only unconstitutional but also not necessarily in the best interest in what makes a country succeed, economically, Socially, and gives proper care to citizens. So I kinda go by the phrase love the country hate the government. Haha And in countries like that though, if it’s serious you do get taken to the ER, if it’s not too serious yeah you may have to wait a little, but it’s better than being punished for being poor, not everyone can afford health insurance and if you can’t afford it here they force it out of you anyway. Same with property taxes, the gov does the very thing the Brits did to us in the 1700‘s and now we have an extortionist government literally look up the definition of extortion that’s how they treat us, pay us or we take your shit. We literally went to war over this shit.
Shy Kiagana You summed up a lot of my thoughts personally, The US one of the richest countries in the world has the ability to make the switch to Uni healthcare, but don’t because of the wastefulness of our gov, stop aiding foreign countries, lower the military budget, stop letting the illegals in, if we did those things and cut wasteful programs, we wouldn’t have a problem with healthcare at all, not that we ever should have had this anyway.
A year in prison for lunch shaming? I think that's a bit over the top. I salute the direction, but not the arrival point. There's got to be a better way to deal with this. A fine, I understand.
my daughter was told she cannot bring a bag lunch to school she had to buy it from the school well my husband is a lawyer who told the school that is illegal that if a person do not want to eat their food you cannot force them to eat that food if they bring in their own food to school we won that case the next week they kick our daughter out for having a PB and Jelly sandwich well to bad for them we now suing the school under the anti monopoly law that is a Federal law they are going have a hard time showing that their lunch dept is not a cash making monopoly for the school In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices. ... Monopolies can be established by a government, form naturally, or form by integration. In many jurisdictions, competition laws restrict Definition of 'Monopoly' Definition: A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute. ... He enjoys the power of setting the price for his goods
how hard is it for a 15 year old to remember to tell his parents that the school informed him that he has only $15 left on the account, quit making it the schools responsibility.
at $15 a day for lunch times by 5 days a week times by 4 weeks a month times by 9 months a school year that is $13,500 that kid would pay a year for their lunch then times that by 13 that is $175,500 for one kid to have lunch each day for each school year from K to 12 and most family have more than one kid in school at the same time think of that I know i do i have four kids all school years age . So were is a family coming up with that $13,500 a year per kid tell one kid they cannot eat because the other one is because that is $54,000 a year that is why i give all four of my kids a bag lunch because my husband i are trying to pay off our school loans his Master is Law my PhD
This happened to my daughter when she was in kindergarten in a Madison County School in Alabama. It absolutely blew my mind. It was her favorite lunch that day, breakfast for lunch, she got her tray with her food, and got to the register and had a negative balance of less than $3, but they took the tray and threw it away and told her she had to have a turkey sandwich instead, but all they actually gave her was a hoggie bun with a slice of cheese on it.. It was my fault I forgot to put money in her account, and even though she's in 3rd grade now, it still hurts my heart that she had to go through that. I can't understand the logic behind this policy at all.. They have programs here where they send bags of food home for poor families and children for the weekends and holidays, and yet they waste the food that the school has to pay for regardless bc of a parents mistake or inability to pay.. We are not poor, we most definitely are not rich either. It was my fault not hers that I forgot to add money online to her account but regardless this policy needs to be addressed and changed.. It's absolutely absurd..
1. Don’t give them food if they have a debt. That’s way better than throwing away a good meal. 2. Don’t allow students to take on debt at all. If they forget their money they aren’t eating from the cafeteria that day. Pretty simple, teaches them to be responsible for their own lunch and prevents debt from building up. 3. There should always be a free lunch program for those kids unable to afford it.
kids aren't responsible for their food.it's their parnets job to feed their kids.so punishing kids for their parnets mistakes is unfair and accomblishes nothing.
Hey dumbass, the kid wasn't the one who racked up the debt. His PARENTS did. Schools these days have some kind of payment system for the cafeteria. The parents pay a certain amount, get a card that day give the kids that lets the kid by whatever amount of food they want using the prepaid card the school gave the parents that has the amount the parents paid the school. The school is supposed to send out notices to parents to let them know when the card is running out of funds so that the parents can put MORE money on it. Didn't you hear the video? I hear some schools make you throw the food out, even if tou are short by a QUARTER on the card. I mean seriously? So what if there isn't 'enough money' on the card? How hard is it to ask the KID themself if THEY had any CASH on themself to help make up the money difference thats missing on the card, and let them keep the food, and have the parents deal with the card later? Or better yet, RING UP the items AGAIN and remove the foods thats on the tray until whatever is left on the tray adds up to whats left on the card so that the kid could have SOMETHING to eat? Or let the kids do what the boy did, which is PAY out of his own pocket money the food? If he has the cash to pay for it without the prepaid card, why don't they let HIM pay for it instead of taking away his food just because the card was $5 short of the FULL amount being charged? If its just $5, then how hard is it to ask the kid if he MIGHT have the $5 on hand so he can add it to the amount thats on the card? They get their blood money either way whether its from the prepaid card, or in good old cold hard cash. I mean seriously? Whats the point of ORDERING the cafeteria workers to throw away perfectly good food that they could allow SOMEBODY ELSE to have instead, just because the person TRYING to buy it didn't have enough funds? And you read articles where schools are accusing the STUDENTS of 'wasting MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in cafeteria food' by throwing it away. What does the school call what cafeteria workers themselves are doing with the food of kids who don't have enough money to pay for the food?
I guess from reading the responses I must have worded this poorly, because punishing students was never part of the intent. The first point was made to prevent wasting food. The second step was pretty reasonable honestly - if the students have the money to pay then it is their responsibility to remember it. If you want a service but forget your wallet, you're not getting said service. That's standard practice. And in the cases where the kids are A) too young to be responsible for their lunch, or B) don't have the family resources for a lunch, that's why I included #3, so that no child has to unnecessarily go hungry because of the failings of adults. If the school system is as Angela Nebedum put it, then that's not what I took away from the video but obviously my second point would no longer apply. In the case of a parents card payment system, I still wouldn't allow debt on the card. Instead, I would suggest that parents put a certain amount on the card, and when that amount is used the card recharges by automatically billing the parents' account via direct deposit style system. If for whatever reason the automatic refill does not go through (rejected/cancelled by parents, empty bank account, problem with the bank), I think it would be best if the student were automatically placed on a payment plan or a temporary free lunch plan so that the student could still eat. And if you think I'm an asshole for expecting young adults [who aren't financially disadvantaged, see #3] to take responsibility for their own lunch money, then I'm guessing you have a problem with anyone who expects people to be responsible for themselves. Part of growing up is learning to manage these things and take care of yourself. A debt system just teaches students that it's okay to abuse loans and take without compensation, which isn't doing them any favors towards preparing them for the real world.
kids ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LUNCH MONEY ...are prisoners responsible for lunch money? nope...fine tax payers like myself do this for them ...there's something definitely wrong here
When I was in elementary school and I owed like maybe 3 dollars, the staff would force me to eat a bread sandwich with just cheese and if i didn't, I wasn't allowed to leave. I got the stomach flu like three times from that. I remember being so embarrassed because they never warned me that I owed anything, and i was a very shy kid too. And my kindergarten teacher when i was 5 force fed me a boiled egg, i haven't been able to eat eggs since, and I'm now almost 18. Schools need better food and respect for students.
At my school, even if you're $200 negative, they still have to give you lunch. It is outraging that some of these kids have to go through the rest of their day HUNGRY because they were in the hole a few bucks.
@toasterbathbomb-c4hnot everyone is super rich jackass, my family literally lives paycheck to paycheck and social security, even in negative in my lunch account and my Highschool still lets me eat lunch because they won’t let kids go hungry. It’s not always because of parents being shitty. Sometimes people aren’t just super dirty rich and well off.
I'm a diabetic that did my shot based on carbs befors I ate and in 3rd grade they tried to do this to me when I went $1.03 in the hole. So I took my jelly sandwich, white milk and orange back to the nurse amd told her I needed help to figure out if I had less or more carbs than I did insulin for. She was PISSED and went and tore the lunch lady a new one. I ate my mediocre American lunch with pride that day.
at my old elementary school, if you didnt have enough money, they would still give you money but you had to bring some the next day. if you didnt have money the next day, u wouldnt get lunch.
Public schools were disgusting when I attended elementary/high school...and I see they have gotten steadily worse. This is a classic example of the downfall of not only our public school systems, but our society in general.
Once here in California, a little girl had her lunch taken away because she owed $2. The little girl called her mother and called the cops! When the police came, the lunch lady was arrested on the spot and taken to jail.
where we live they checked the average annual income of parents and realized it was low. now the kids get free breakfast and lunch. it's part of an initiative they started this year. i'm glad they do it. i remember paying for lunch and man after a month it was expensive and my son would pack instead.
Want to avoid this problem? Just allow food sellers to set up stalls in school and the students need to pay to get the food on the spot exactly like how they would outside of school
joesr31 EXACTLY!!!! That solves 2 problems 1) The selection. At my school there is nothing good to eat beside popcorn chicken and pizza so it would be way better. 2) It would solve money. The online money system sucks! At my old school I couldn't have lunch 3 days in a row because it took 5 days to transfer the money from PayPal to the frickin lunch account.
It's illegal to conduct business with a minor. The parent needs called and a letter sent with the bill. The school is wrong to deny any student lunch or make them throw out a lunch. If these students are required to attend school by law and the school is a public taxpayer dollars school then lunch is free to the student and his family.
Actually most school have apps where parents can track how much is on there kids account ! It seem like this kid was pocket him parents money and steal trying to get free food
yea my daughter was told she cannot bring a bag lunch to school she had to buy it from the school well my husband is a lawyer who told the school that is illegal that if a person do not want to eat their food you cannot force them to eat that food if they bring in their own food to school we won that case the next week they kick our daughter out for having a PB and Jelly sandwich well to bad for them we now suing the school under the anti monopoly law that is a Federal law they are going have a hard time showing that their lunch dept is not a cash making monopoly for the school In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices. ... Monopolies can be established by a government, form naturally, or form by integration. In many jurisdictions, competition laws restrict Definition of 'Monopoly' Definition: A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute. ... He enjoys the power of setting the price for his goods
@@janesimmonds8845 Holy crap. Your daughter's school is freakin Clueless. Messed with the daughter once and got burned. I guess they are slow learners. Good luck Hope things turn out well
What a great solution! The kid’s parents owe the school money, so the school wastes money by throwing out food! The logic of some people is staggeringly idiotic.
Our local school district NEVER has people in debt over lunches. Breakfast and lunch are free for any student that wants it. Even over the summer break.
I worked at a school cafeteria that had a lunch program the first year. School lunch should be free. Shame on that school and any other that does this.
I never realized how lucky I was to have free lunch all throughout school. It wasn't until I got to college that I realized some people had to pay for lunch lol
This happened to me when I was 9 in 1997..I wasn't offered a different lunch. I walked outside and waited for my friends to finish up and come outside first recess. .It fucked with me as an Adult. I used it at motivation for life. That's why I really LOVE eating out at Steakhouses now. I can afford it... Never will someone tell me " no"...
Actually they are working on taking away meat from you. You know, "save the planet". Their expectations are you will either pay $200 for a grilled vat-grown tumor or $100 for a steak made from genetically engineered maggots or $50 for a "completely plant based" option that absolutely has to be heated in a microwave, because you can't grill it. And of course you can only go and eat this garbage if you let them inject you every few months with gene therapy mystery shots. If you're rebellish, then this is a great time to be alive!
State laws need to be reviewed. The school should have allowed the student to eat the lunch and discuss the amount owed with the parents. The school has a duty of care including feeding the students whilst the students are at school.
when did that become a duty of care, was it when liberals decided that the state should pick up the tab for everyone's needs. I went to school for 13 years and not once did the school provide a lunch, if I forgot to bring money or food I was out of luck, it didn't happen twice.
My school says that if you have even one cent due, they wont feed you. They don't charge you at all, you just can't eat. If you want to eat, you have to work for it. The crap they serve there makes me sick (literally) so I never eat it. I starve myself for weeks sometimes. It does sound messed up but it's worth it. I'd rather starve than eat stuff that can make me sick for days
Wu Xiao Yu I agree, your better off making your own lunch, people can be pretty gross and dirty and don't always wash their hands to make a kids lunch, why should they, it's not their kids lunch so they don't care, it's sad and disgusting but true. I don't trust anyone to prepare my food but me, at least I know my hands and food are clean and safe. good luck at school 😷
At my elementary school if you didn't bring money, they let you go to the office and ask for money and they'll give you some. But you have to bring money the next day. - *Consider it as a Loan*
@@wendigo333 Forget it. Some lunch lady lunch shames a child in California, she goes to jail. In California, it's illegal. It's a misdemeanor. Any lunch lady who lunch shames a child is a criminal.
ABSOLUTELY nobody has an issue with the fact that they allow kids who aren't paying for their lunch to take food to begin with? You're not talking about elementary school kids here. This kid's at least 15 or 16. Plenty old enough to understand the concept of having to pay for food, or bring your own lunch. This is ludicrous.
It’s the PARENTS who should’ve been given a bill or called or something, instead of punishing the child. Yes, he’s still a child going to school. He didn’t know his account was in the negative because no one told him. And you don’t throw out food. People in this world are starving to death and they are throwing out food.
I agree that the school shouldn't be expected to provide free lunches to kids who can afford to pay for it (meaning if you're not on a free lunch program, you should be expected to bring in money... Although we don't live in a perfect world and many kids who should qualify for free lunch don't). However, if the school is so concerned about kids not paying, they should not permit the students to get lunch without paying, or should set a limit to the debt after which they cannot get food until a payment is made. It doesn't make sense to give the kid a tray of food, then say "you can't have that" and make him throw it out. Why give it to him in the first place?
well i know now they have where u can pay online and it will send you email or txt saying how much is on your kids account ! more then likly this kid was keep the money is parents gave him for lunch and was still trying to sneak food without paying for it
Something similar like this happened to my daughter when she was in High School. She owed some lunch money and they denied her lunch. So she didn’t eat anything until I picked her up after school. Their is something “seriously” wrong with the schools today.
Let him eat!!!!!! Wow... He is in school..And asking him to throw it away.. Wasting food? So they rather waste food than let a child eat.. He is a child because he is a minor, by the way. I hate how schools are. And I have heard over and over again they "TELL" them how much they owe... I don't find this true.. They never told my brother while he was in school. Nor my cousin. And there have been a couple of cases on T.V. about this.
The cold cheese sandwich thing at my school became the most popular request for everyone, regardless of being in debt or not. It was the one thing they couldn’t fuck up XD.
In England (especially in high schools) if you don't have enough money for the food you simply put it back and you get none idk if that's just my school or
I'm from the UK and that's how every school I've been to does it, I don't know what the original poster is on about. I've got loads of Danish friends too and visited a folkeskole i Egedal and sort of saw the gymnasium that some friends were going to a few years ago, apart from no uniforms, it seemed so close to our schools.
In the US once you touch it, it's "contaminated" and can't be resold. This school should charge the kids BEFORE they pick up the food to avoid this situation.
In my old high school, if you were from a low earning household, you'd get free lunch on taxpayer funds. The other students could rack up debt and still always get lunch, but would have to send a note home and get frequent automated calls forwarded to their parents. You'd be excluded from signing up for prom, dances, and home field sporting games until you pay it off.
This is wrong, & abusive! No child should ever be refused food! I'm so disgusted! When I was a fill-in lunch lady, no child went hungry! I used to pack extra food in my daughter's lunches to share with hungry students! Money before kids is wrong!
Where are the parents? If you don't have money to spend then bring your own lunch... What about being accountable the kid is in HS for fuc... sake.... In a year he can drive a car.... in 3 more years he can vote....Why are we constantly blaming other people
If the government grew a pair, and began DEMANDING the EXACT amount of taxes from RICH CORPORATIONS, AND THE WEALTHY the state could provide all these programs without any problem..
The govt is sending taxpayers money to !zrael so !zraeli children can sign "love" notes on b0mbs bound for their neighbors. You can bet !zraeli children are not going hungry as long as there are western tax payers to feed them.
If we stopped foreign aid to every country around the world we could spend that money for children's lunches at school and make every single prison a workers prison that put inmates to work do all sorts of stuff like work crews cleaning up our roadways and government building grounds then they have earned their meals because they save the money hiring out separate crews to do that.
Such entitlement at 15 I worked a part-time job to buy my school clothes and my lunches so my divorced mother who did not receive child support for me and worked three jobs to keep a roof over our head and a vehicle running to get us where we needed to go as well as food for breakfast and dinner at home, didn't have to
Why do the kids in america have to go to school and pay for their lunches there? here in new zealand we have a packed lunch that we pack the night before or in the morning and then at school we eat that while walking around the school or sitting down somewhere in the school. (as for litter there is not one point in the school where a bin is not in sight) and if we want anything extra or its our birthday or we forgot our lunch ect there is like a tuk-shop that we call a cafeteria where you go up, purchase what ever items you want and leave to go and sit normally with your friends. the whole concept of a cafeteria being a building where kids are forced to purchase meals is quite weird. why not just bring some food from home no big deal. i dont get it. its obvious that the school is trying to make money from the cafeteria but to make kids purchase their food from them is plain horrifying.
I am 69 years old. No free lunch program in those days. You either brought your lunch or you paid for pretty crappy cafeteria food on the spot. No upfront payments. Simpler times. But for those whose families are low income, someone needs to do the right thing!
Indeed, the money comes from taxpayers anyway. Not that those who can't afford to pay shouldn't pay. But this is a good point. In my other comment i said that the school needs to keep feeding the child no matter what, and leave the financial/legal burden on the adults in charge of the child.
Once the tray is grabbed any open food is considered "contaminated" and can't be resold. Un opened milk and juices are okay to put back it's a US food safety regulation.
I think this is so stupid what if a kid didn't have money to eat at home neither their taking away food that could have been their dinner that could be the only meal they have eaten every day some school rules disgust me
Julie Mansell well some kids don't eat breakfast or dinner meaning the only time they eat is at school lunch this happend to some of my close friends a while back and some kids can pass out from not eating enough and all can but some pass out faster
Just know that inmates have it better than these kids but if your not paying for something then you should not get it. I think it's a good lesson for these kids. They should know who's behind before they serve the food then it want go to waste and lead to public humiliation. This might help break most kids entitlement now days. I'm sure these kids would not be able to balance a credit card with how they think nowadays
That makes absolutely no sense to throw the food away. You’re punishing a child with the worst punishment, for a bill that their PARENTS owe. That is CRUEL.
They’re trying this thing in my school system where all meal foods are free. All of them. That’s right, lunch is free. Milk is free. They give us free breakfast as well. Everything. For every single student. The program is supposed to last 3 years, and honestly I think they should permanently do it in ALL school systems. None of this throw away your lunch stuff, which is just cruel.
Adults acting like three year olds. Gross and disgusting. It’s 2024 no kids should go without a breakfast and lunch. Let my taxes pay for it gladly very very gladly with a smile on my face.😊
What a bad example they set to the student. That was so wrong on so many levels. Congratulations to the response of the students! It seems to me, the students surpassed their teachers. And shame forever on the people who would enforce and endorse a ludicrous policy.
Tough love young man; this was a lesson of economics in adulthood. We the people, in this great nation of ours, had more then 3/4 million people file for chapter 8. Our national debt is what it is. Do we need more lessons in budget management for our young adults? If this was a younger kid then no, don't throw it away and some kind of food program needs to be in place.
It’s a sad state of affairs when children are being punished because their parents cannot afford to buy their lunches at school. I think this is disgraceful behavior.
How is a child expected to learn on an empty stomach. To have to eat a pb and j while everyone around you gets a decent meal!!! How can any adult in good Conscience subject children to food discrimination. Absolutely shameful
In my school, they won't let you starve, they would give you lunch even if you were in 20$ debt. They just didn't give you extras and they just needed you to pay it by a certain date...
I had this happen to me back in middle school. I had 0$ on my lunch account. The lunch lady literally took the tray out of my hand and gave me a tray with a pb&j. I told her I was allergic but she told me to go sit down or that I'd have to serve a detention everyday until I could add money into my account. I threw away the sandwich, I was allergic to it. The lady got mad and said I had detention later. I didn't get a chance to make a call home to my parents. So later my mom came inside the school looking for me. At first she was mad and thought I did something. Then I told her what happened and hell broke loose between my mom and the teachers....
You should of ate that sandwich and then sued the lunch lady/school
Jewell Ashley
True, but you could of said you didn't know, ad all schools have epi pens
Imma Turkey
I don't know man, I'd kinda be scared shitless cause of them pens costing now at 500 dollars a pop and also I'd be to chicken shit at taking the risk and suffication.
In my school (it's in England) if you don't have enough money you have to put the food back and you don't get any
Jewell Ashley the price dropped since they exposed the CEO for increasing the prices.
Let me get this straight, kids are required by law to attend school and the parents have to pay for their lunch or pack one for them. Prisoners get 3 meals per-day and it's funded by taxpayers. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
Because one, Prisoners have NO MEANS of paying for it, being locked up and all. 2. Prison food is terrible. Worse than school food for sure, therefore cheaper.
3. There are food programs for school for free/reduced lunch if you are poor enough. If he wasn't poor enough, he has to pay for food.
Why is the concept of a free person having to pay for products with scaling prices from parents salary a problem?
that's not true in America prisoners meals cost more than student meals
We shouldn't drain even more of taxpayer money into school lunches, in fact, we already do. There are specific financial aid programs dedicated to parents who can't afford school lunches.
Win Lose no
rowdycat ikr
wasting food definately defeats the purpose
scarlett Ikr
Exactly it seems extremely stupid, half of what they serve is barely edible and they overcharge for it already
So does bad spelling and not knowing how to use punctuation & capital letters.🤡🦧🦤
@@scarygary-qq1pjdefeats the purpose of what
@@scarygary-qq1pj Do you not realize that people may not be proficient in english…..
The public humiliation is the worst part of it.
Exposing the kids to the mockery of their peers for something they have no influence on.
Sitting down at the table with an 'alternative meal' is humiliating already.
Try to walk out of a grocery store without paying for your food and see what happens to you. It's not humiliation, it's real life. If you owe money, you don't eat until you pay. It really is that simple.
@@theoriginaldashriprockShowing the world you've always lived in privilege and cannot have empathy for anyone. Despite someone's best efforts, some people don't have the good luck to be able to afford even the necessities of life. Anything can happen to anyone and ruin their financial security.
I hope that if you are ever in need, that someone is there to help you & not pass harsh judgement upon yourself & situation.
Matthew 25: 35-40
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
@@theoriginaldashriprock So the kid has to endure the humiliation because the parents didn't pay the bill? No kid should go hungry. You are a poor excuse for a human.
@@theoriginaldashriprocktake your real life scenario and shove it up your ass. It’s only right wing cunts that think like you.
If the school receives taxpayer funds, NO students should have to pay for lunch. It's already paid for.
What people don’t understand about the free lunch program is that your parents can make just enough so you don’t qualify, but still can’t eat.
@taruluver29303 This is not true. Food is readily available and cheap.
“Waste of food”? I’m way less concerned about wasting food and far more concerned about the humiliation the students must have felt!
Agreed but the point "waste of food" is the absurdity.
$15 for a school lunch!?! The food isn't even worth $2 let alone $15!
Inmates get three meals a day.And they're funded by the tax dollars. Why aren't our children
My son's school doesn't let you register for the next school year if you owe any money, or still have books from the previous school year.
However, they also don't let you have any lunch, even an "alternative lunch". They failed to process a payment for my youngest and he ended up eating ramen that he got from the secretary. I never received a call.
I spoke to the principal the next afternoon, he apologized, and the lunch issue was fixed.
No child should go hungry. Some families eat once a day, and that tiny school lunch is it. Shame on them, and shame on our government for spending so much money on war and prisons, and so little on our future.
Amen
angeleyes green I agree. We can cut down on prison expenses by giving rapists and pedophiles the death penalty
My kids’ school in Georgia provides free cheese sandwiches or peanut butter sandwiches and fresh fruit for kids who are more than $30 in debt on their account, but they never make a child go hungry. I don’t know if it’s just our school system or a statewide thing.
Feed your own kids. If a family is only eating once a day the parents aren't doing their job idc what you say. You don't pay, you don't eat. Be a responsible parent and make sure you kid has lunch money. It's not hard to do the math and know how long the money will last. Lazy parenting, playing the victim.
@@dajb90 oh, so you're one of those poor people don't exist types.
Feel free to exit the conversation as you have nothing constructive to add.
I would also recommend some empathy training, and maybe some volunteer social work to help open your closed mind. Not everyone can have the prosperous life you clearly have had.
I have the money to make sure I have shelter, food, and clothes for my children. This does not mean my neighbor has access to the same. It is why food pantries, low income housing, and other similar services exist.
I pray for your enlightenment.
Edited to correct auto correct 🙄
I had my tray taken out of my hands because I was 10 cents short to pay for it in high school. Bunch of kids saw it and only one student offered to give me money to eat.
I love how schools think it’s okay to let a child go hungry during school.
That should be illegal and schools should provide free meals or face a lawsuit
If school is MANDATORY then lunch should be AUTOMATICALLY MANDATORILY FREE.
Free???!!! My school taxes are high enough. Free or reduced for poorer families-YES. But not for those parents who can afford it.
@hollyb6885 if they can give illegals free stuff then feed our kids..what about prisoners??
@@kellymetcalf3690 Two wrongs don’t make a right. Why should my tax dollars pay for free lunches for the children of Drs and lawyers? And I suspect you’re wearing a red hat.
@ednamckinney2284 Let's just close public schools. They are clearly a waste of money.
@kellymetcalf3690 Nope. The government robbing us to help moochers is wrong.
If they can afford to throw away perfectly good food, they can afford to let the kids eat. Absolutely stupid
That kid is an angel. When he's forced to throw out his lunch, he gives them 5 extra dollars and says, "Keep the change." He's awesome 👏👏👏👏
Evelyn Turner they probably put the rest towards his account.
So if he had the money to give her, why not just give the $27 and that would be the problem solved, clearly the kid has money, so instead of acting like a "rebel", pay your damn debt. In the real world, if you don't have the money, you don't get what you want, kids should be taught that.
RobAntDen the kids aren't the ones who refill it.. parents do online or on phone by credit card to the lunch ladies. Many times they do not tell the kids either until they are over the maximum limit. What's sad is many kids don't qualify because their parents both work but they fall into the We make enough to pay our bills but can only afford dinner. The guidelines need to reward those trying to make.. the actual tax payers but instead if you don't work you get free food, free money, free phones, free transportation, free medical, free housing.. seriously things need to be reevaluated. Without a doubt help those in true need bit don't punish the ones barely hanging above the bread line!
Shy Kiagana
Well that’s the thing, we need to be harsher on illegals that come here, and Canada gets by just fine, and so does most of Europe, Europe was fine until their government betrayed their citizens, and in some ways that’s how I feel about the US gov, I consider myself a bit of a nationalist, but the way the gov does things is not only unconstitutional but also not necessarily in the best interest in what makes a country succeed, economically, Socially, and gives proper care to citizens.
So I kinda go by the phrase love the country hate the government. Haha
And in countries like that though, if it’s serious you do get taken to the ER, if it’s not too serious yeah you may have to wait a little, but it’s better than being punished for being poor, not everyone can afford health insurance and if you can’t afford it here they force it out of you anyway.
Same with property taxes, the gov does the very thing the Brits did to us in the 1700‘s and now we have an extortionist government literally look up the definition of extortion that’s how they treat us, pay us or we take your shit.
We literally went to war over this shit.
Shy Kiagana
You summed up a lot of my thoughts personally, The US one of the richest countries in the world has the ability to make the switch to Uni healthcare, but don’t because of the wastefulness of our gov, stop aiding foreign countries, lower the military budget, stop letting the illegals in, if we did those things and cut wasteful programs, we wouldn’t have a problem with healthcare at all, not that we ever should have had this anyway.
This is illegal in California. Lunch shaming is against the law. It's a misdemeanor in California. It's punishable by a fine and 1 year in prison.
Well, California rarely gets anything right, but they nail this one on the head!!
A year in prison for lunch shaming? I think that's a bit over the top. I salute the direction, but not the arrival point. There's got to be a better way to deal with this. A fine, I understand.
@@mordechai-There's no other way, you lunch shame a child, you go to jail.
@@JimMohattThat's right. Lunch shaming a child in California is a Class A misdemeanor.
This is one of the many reasons I'm moving back to California
I'm gonna start selling lunches out the back door on the black market
my daughter was told she cannot bring a bag lunch to school she had to buy it from the school well my husband is a lawyer who told the school that is illegal that if a person do not want to eat their food you cannot force them to eat that food if they bring in their own food to school we won that case the next week they kick our daughter out for having a PB and Jelly sandwich well to bad for them we now suing the school under the anti monopoly law that is a Federal law they are going have a hard time showing that their lunch dept is not a cash making monopoly for the school In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices. ... Monopolies can be established by a government, form naturally, or form by integration. In many jurisdictions, competition laws restrict Definition of 'Monopoly' Definition: A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute. ... He enjoys the power of setting the price for his goods
so were is a family coming up with that $13,500 a year per kid tell one kid they cannot eat because the other one is
How hard is it to mail a bill to the parents when the debt hit the $20.00 mark?
how hard is it for a 15 year old to remember to tell his parents that the school informed him that he has only $15 left on the account, quit making it the schools responsibility.
at $15 a day for lunch times by 5 days a week times by 4 weeks a month times by 9 months a school year that is $13,500 that kid would pay a year for their lunch then times that by 13 that is $175,500 for one kid to have lunch each day for each school year from K to 12 and most family have more than one kid in school at the same time think of that I know i do i have four kids all school years age . So were is a family coming up with that $13,500 a year per kid tell one kid they cannot eat because the other one is because that is $54,000 a year that is why i give all four of my kids a bag lunch because my husband i are trying to pay off our school loans his Master is Law my PhD
@@janesimmonds8845 Its like 3 dollars a day in america- but again they feed us shit so.
@@janesimmonds8845 where on earth do you live that a school lunch costs $15 per day?
How about "student lunch debt" shouldn't be term that exists at all...especially in the self proclaimed greatest country on Earth.
This happened to my daughter when she was in kindergarten in a Madison County School in Alabama. It absolutely blew my mind. It was her favorite lunch that day, breakfast for lunch, she got her tray with her food, and got to the register and had a negative balance of less than $3, but they took the tray and threw it away and told her she had to have a turkey sandwich instead, but all they actually gave her was a hoggie bun with a slice of cheese on it.. It was my fault I forgot to put money in her account, and even though she's in 3rd grade now, it still hurts my heart that she had to go through that. I can't understand the logic behind this policy at all.. They have programs here where they send bags of food home for poor families and children for the weekends and holidays, and yet they waste the food that the school has to pay for regardless bc of a parents mistake or inability to pay.. We are not poor, we most definitely are not rich either. It was my fault not hers that I forgot to add money online to her account but regardless this policy needs to be addressed and changed.. It's absolutely absurd..
Sad, how is your daughter now?
That reminds me of how I would have to spend the end of my kindergarden days in detention because of arriving late to school
In a kindergarten? That's horrible.
Sad how they care more about poor bums from other places and even countries but can't feed their own school's kids lunch that's just ridiculous
Maybe you should remember to pay your bills then rather than be the kind of person who lets it slide until the school complains.
Why are they punishing the kids for a bill the PARENTS owe?! There has to be a better way.
Why isn't lunch covered with our tax?Dollars. Why do inmates get three meals a day with their tax dollars
1. Don’t give them food if they have a debt. That’s way better than throwing away a good meal.
2. Don’t allow students to take on debt at all. If they forget their money they aren’t eating from the cafeteria that day. Pretty simple, teaches them to be responsible for their own lunch and prevents debt from building up.
3. There should always be a free lunch program for those kids unable to afford it.
kids aren't responsible for their food.it's their parnets job to feed their kids.so punishing kids for their parnets mistakes is unfair and accomblishes nothing.
Hey dumbass, the kid wasn't the one who racked up the debt. His PARENTS did. Schools these days have some kind of payment system for the cafeteria. The parents pay a certain amount, get a card that day give the kids that lets the kid by whatever amount of food they want using the prepaid card the school gave the parents that has the amount the parents paid the school. The school is supposed to send out notices to parents to let them know when the card is running out of funds so that the parents can put MORE money on it.
Didn't you hear the video?
I hear some schools make you throw the food out, even if tou are short by a QUARTER on the card. I mean seriously? So what if there isn't 'enough money' on the card? How hard is it to ask the KID themself if THEY had any CASH on themself to help make up the money difference thats missing on the card, and let them keep the food, and have the parents deal with the card later? Or better yet, RING UP the items AGAIN and remove the foods thats on the tray until whatever is left on the tray adds up to whats left on the card so that the kid could have SOMETHING to eat? Or let the kids do what the boy did, which is PAY out of his own pocket money the food? If he has the cash to pay for it without the prepaid card, why don't they let HIM pay for it instead of taking away his food just because the card was $5 short of the FULL amount being charged? If its just $5, then how hard is it to ask the kid if he MIGHT have the $5 on hand so he can add it to the amount thats on the card? They get their blood money either way whether its from the prepaid card, or in good old cold hard cash.
I mean seriously? Whats the point of ORDERING the cafeteria workers to throw away perfectly good food that they could allow SOMEBODY ELSE to have instead, just because the person TRYING to buy it didn't have enough funds? And you read articles where schools are accusing the STUDENTS of 'wasting MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in cafeteria food' by throwing it away. What does the school call what cafeteria workers themselves are doing with the food of kids who don't have enough money to pay for the food?
I guess from reading the responses I must have worded this poorly, because punishing students was never part of the intent. The first point was made to prevent wasting food. The second step was pretty reasonable honestly - if the students have the money to pay then it is their responsibility to remember it. If you want a service but forget your wallet, you're not getting said service. That's standard practice. And in the cases where the kids are A) too young to be responsible for their lunch, or B) don't have the family resources for a lunch, that's why I included #3, so that no child has to unnecessarily go hungry because of the failings of adults.
If the school system is as Angela Nebedum put it, then that's not what I took away from the video but obviously my second point would no longer apply. In the case of a parents card payment system, I still wouldn't allow debt on the card. Instead, I would suggest that parents put a certain amount on the card, and when that amount is used the card recharges by automatically billing the parents' account via direct deposit style system. If for whatever reason the automatic refill does not go through (rejected/cancelled by parents, empty bank account, problem with the bank), I think it would be best if the student were automatically placed on a payment plan or a temporary free lunch plan so that the student could still eat.
And if you think I'm an asshole for expecting young adults [who aren't financially disadvantaged, see #3] to take responsibility for their own lunch money, then I'm guessing you have a problem with anyone who expects people to be responsible for themselves. Part of growing up is learning to manage these things and take care of yourself. A debt system just teaches students that it's okay to abuse loans and take without compensation, which isn't doing them any favors towards preparing them for the real world.
Tristan Neal at first I thought you were trashing kids who couldn’t afford food then I saw the last one.
kids ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LUNCH MONEY ...are prisoners responsible for lunch money? nope...fine tax payers like myself do this for them ...there's something definitely wrong here
When I was in elementary school and I owed like maybe 3 dollars, the staff would force me to eat a bread sandwich with just cheese and if i didn't, I wasn't allowed to leave. I got the stomach flu like three times from that. I remember being so embarrassed because they never warned me that I owed anything, and i was a very shy kid too. And my kindergarten teacher when i was 5 force fed me a boiled egg, i haven't been able to eat eggs since, and I'm now almost 18. Schools need better food and respect for students.
The food was fine until big Mike got involved.
@stuckgrenadepin.225 The fuck it was. School Food was cardboard 20 years ago.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r mine was great, but I was poor growing up and not a spoiled twat so…
yeah! throw out the food! thatll pay his debt!
@@Adrasdea Yup. It's torture for the sake of greed.
America is turning to sh!t
At my school, even if you're $200 negative, they still have to give you lunch. It is outraging that some of these kids have to go through the rest of their day HUNGRY because they were in the hole a few bucks.
@sammibear1903 They'll be fine.
@toasterbathbomb-c4hnot everyone is super rich jackass, my family literally lives paycheck to paycheck and social security, even in negative in my lunch account and my Highschool still lets me eat lunch because they won’t let kids go hungry. It’s not always because of parents being shitty. Sometimes people aren’t just super dirty rich and well off.
I'm a diabetic that did my shot based on carbs befors I ate and in 3rd grade they tried to do this to me when I went $1.03 in the hole. So I took my jelly sandwich, white milk and orange back to the nurse amd told her I needed help to figure out if I had less or more carbs than I did insulin for. She was PISSED and went and tore the lunch lady a new one. I ate my mediocre American lunch with pride that day.
at my old elementary school, if you didnt have enough money, they would still give you money but you had to bring some the next day. if you didnt have money the next day, u wouldnt get lunch.
the teachers gave you money
wtf
Seems fair to me.
cat-dono At my school, you can get down to £-5, then you need to put more money on, or you can't purchase anymore.
+Overused Meme oops sorry i meant lunch
Just another UA-cam channel at my school you can get down to $-8
Public schools were disgusting when I attended elementary/high school...and I see they have gotten steadily worse. This is a classic example of the downfall of not only our public school systems, but our society in general.
Once here in California, a little girl had her lunch taken away because she owed $2. The little girl called her mother and called the cops! When the police came, the lunch lady was arrested on the spot and taken to jail.
where we live they checked the average annual income of parents and realized it was low. now the kids get free breakfast and lunch. it's part of an initiative they started this year. i'm glad they do it. i remember paying for lunch and man after a month it was expensive and my son would pack instead.
Want to avoid this problem? Just allow food sellers to set up stalls in school and the students need to pay to get the food on the spot exactly like how they would outside of school
joesr31 EXACTLY!!!! That solves 2 problems
1) The selection. At my school there is nothing good to eat beside popcorn chicken and pizza so it would be way better.
2) It would solve money. The online money system sucks! At my old school I couldn't have lunch 3 days in a row because it took 5 days to transfer the money from PayPal to the frickin lunch account.
Sure, that's all America needs, more power for corporations to fcuk the children
that's a good idea!!
joesr31 that’s a horrible idea.
joesr31 Yeah cause kids who don't pay their lunch debt have money for upmarket food truck garbage
If you go over 5$ at our school, you get a cheese sandwich.
AvaLPS same
And what happens if you have a student who is lactose intolerant?
Well, there are lactose-free cheeses.
Yeah but how many schools will bother to get lactose free for anything?
Alec Edgeworth then pay your bill
Mr. Principle, every time you deny a child lunch, you yourself go without lunch too. Let's see how long that lasts 🤔.
@toasterbathbomb-c4h
Why? Cause he denied a child food. Anyone with a heart wouldn't deny a child food. Would you?
This is another example of why we home schooled.
It's illegal to conduct business with a minor. The parent needs called and a letter sent with the bill. The school is wrong to deny any student lunch or make them throw out a lunch. If these students are required to attend school by law and the school is a public taxpayer dollars school then lunch is free to the student and his family.
You actually believe it is illegal for a kid to buy things in stores? You believe that!?
Actually most school have apps where parents can track how much is on there kids account ! It seem like this kid was pocket him parents money and steal trying to get free food
it's not the state's responsibility to feed everyone.
yea my daughter was told she cannot bring a bag lunch to school she had to buy it from the school well my husband is a lawyer who told the school that is illegal that if a person do not want to eat their food you cannot force them to eat that food if they bring in their own food to school we won that case the next week they kick our daughter out for having a PB and Jelly sandwich well to bad for them we now suing the school under the anti monopoly law that is a Federal law they are going have a hard time showing that their lunch dept is not a cash making monopoly for the school In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices. ... Monopolies can be established by a government, form naturally, or form by integration. In many jurisdictions, competition laws restrict Definition of 'Monopoly' Definition: A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute. ... He enjoys the power of setting the price for his goods
@@janesimmonds8845 Holy crap. Your daughter's school is freakin Clueless. Messed with the daughter once and got burned. I guess they are slow learners. Good luck Hope things turn out well
If he owed the debt why did they give him the lunch in the first place? Makes more sense to refuse to serve than throw away.
What a great solution! The kid’s parents owe the school money, so the school wastes money by throwing out food! The logic of some people is staggeringly idiotic.
Must be a trump policy
@@Quimby-1966sadly no. It's a super old one
Our local school district NEVER has people in debt over lunches. Breakfast and lunch are free for any student that wants it. Even over the summer break.
I worked at a school cafeteria that had a lunch program the first year. School lunch should be free. Shame on that school and any other that does this.
Nothing is free. You are saying we should rob the community.
I never realized how lucky I was to have free lunch all throughout school. It wasn't until I got to college that I realized some people had to pay for lunch lol
This happened to me when I was 9 in 1997..I wasn't offered a different lunch. I walked outside and waited for my friends to finish up and come outside first recess.
.It fucked with me as an Adult. I used it at motivation for life. That's why I really LOVE eating out at Steakhouses now. I can afford it... Never will someone tell me " no"...
Actually they are working on taking away meat from you. You know, "save the planet". Their expectations are you will either pay $200 for a grilled vat-grown tumor or $100 for a steak made from genetically engineered maggots or $50 for a "completely plant based" option that absolutely has to be heated in a microwave, because you can't grill it. And of course you can only go and eat this garbage if you let them inject you every few months with gene therapy mystery shots. If you're rebellish, then this is a great time to be alive!
State laws need to be reviewed. The school should have allowed the student to eat the lunch and discuss the amount owed with the parents. The school has a duty of care including feeding the students whilst the students are at school.
Amen.
when did that become a duty of care, was it when liberals decided that the state should pick up the tab for everyone's needs. I went to school for 13 years and not once did the school provide a lunch, if I forgot to bring money or food I was out of luck, it didn't happen twice.
Or, maybe vote in a Democrat for a change, down there.
@alexlifeson8946 2 things are always true about Democrats.
1. Nobody voted them in.
2. Things will get worse.
Just let the kids eat and not go hungry. What a stupid policy.
Throwing out the food is simply crazy and wasteful. Appalling, disgusting and unhinged school policy 😮😢
My school says that if you have even one cent due, they wont feed you. They don't charge you at all, you just can't eat. If you want to eat, you have to work for it. The crap they serve there makes me sick (literally) so I never eat it. I starve myself for weeks sometimes. It does sound messed up but it's worth it. I'd rather starve than eat stuff that can make me sick for days
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I agree, your better off making your own lunch, people can be pretty gross and dirty and don't always wash their hands to make a kids lunch, why should they, it's not their kids lunch so they don't care, it's sad and disgusting but true. I don't trust anyone to prepare my food but me, at least I know my hands and food are clean and safe. good luck at school 😷
Yep American school lunch food is nasty and they dare called the stuff food how come prisoners get free food like murders
MelonSap i do that too but if there is something good I'm eating cause the fried chicken wings at my school is so good 😊
i don't like american schools they're so shady and escalated
At my elementary school if you didn't bring money, they let you go to the office and ask for money and they'll give you some. But you have to bring money the next day.
- *Consider it as a Loan*
Building that student loan debt early.
Was the school a licenced credit broker?
It’s a public school, not a for-profit Corporation.
Its simple. Don't go after kids. CONTACT THE PARENTS!!!
@@wendigo333 Forget it. Some lunch lady lunch shames a child in California, she goes to jail. In California, it's illegal. It's a misdemeanor. Any lunch lady who lunch shames a child is a criminal.
ABSOLUTELY nobody has an issue with the fact that they allow kids who aren't paying for their lunch to take food to begin with?
You're not talking about elementary school kids here. This kid's at least 15 or 16. Plenty old enough to understand the concept of having to pay for food, or bring your own lunch. This is ludicrous.
this is the mentality that is pervasive in todays world, it's always someone else's fault or responsibility.
It’s the PARENTS who should’ve been given a bill or called or something, instead of punishing the child. Yes, he’s still a child going to school. He didn’t know his account was in the negative because no one told him. And you don’t throw out food. People in this world are starving to death and they are throwing out food.
I agree that the school shouldn't be expected to provide free lunches to kids who can afford to pay for it (meaning if you're not on a free lunch program, you should be expected to bring in money... Although we don't live in a perfect world and many kids who should qualify for free lunch don't). However, if the school is so concerned about kids not paying, they should not permit the students to get lunch without paying, or should set a limit to the debt after which they cannot get food until a payment is made. It doesn't make sense to give the kid a tray of food, then say "you can't have that" and make him throw it out. Why give it to him in the first place?
well i know now they have where u can pay online and it will send you email or txt saying how much is on your kids account ! more then likly this kid was keep the money is parents gave him for lunch and was still trying to sneak food without paying for it
Megan Larino by law they cant put back open food, and the problem is the register is always at the end of the line
It's to shame them and beat them down, forced compliance training .
Something similar like this happened to my daughter when she was in High School. She owed some lunch money and they denied her lunch. So she didn’t eat anything until I picked her up after school. Their is something “seriously” wrong with the schools today.
All schools should have free lunches for all students.
It's a public school. Don't we tax payers pay for that food
Something is wrong with our country if schools refuse to feed students! What will throwing the food away accomplish? That is a waste
Let him eat!!!!!! Wow... He is in school..And asking him to throw it away.. Wasting food? So they rather waste food than let a child eat.. He is a child because he is a minor, by the way. I hate how schools are. And I have heard over and over again they "TELL" them how much they owe... I don't find this true.. They never told my brother while he was in school. Nor my cousin. And there have been a couple of cases on T.V. about this.
is a 15 year too stupid to keep track of his account?
You dont have to tell me twice to throw away school lunch thats stuffs nasty
The cold cheese sandwich thing at my school became the most popular request for everyone, regardless of being in debt or not. It was the one thing they couldn’t fuck up XD.
It is a waste of food, and no child should be forced to throw away food the taxpayers already paid for...
If he was part of the protected class that wouldn’t have happened.
My parents would be ticked if I had to do that and not eat
Yea the world would just stop spinning if your tubby ass missed out on one of your three squares.
OH EXCUSE ME, THAT WAS SO RUDE the kids are the ones wasting food when they owe money but still try to get it
I always make sure my kids have lunch money. I would be horrified if this happened
Would they be ticked enough to pay the debt?
I couldn't get a water because I owed 86 cents 😂😂
Don't schools have water fountains?
In England (especially in high schools) if you don't have enough money for the food you simply put it back and you get none idk if that's just my school or
Cortana why do you hate it ?
I'm from the UK and that's how every school I've been to does it, I don't know what the original poster is on about. I've got loads of Danish friends too and visited a folkeskole i Egedal and sort of saw the gymnasium that some friends were going to a few years ago, apart from no uniforms, it seemed so close to our schools.
In the US once you touch it, it's "contaminated" and can't be resold. This school should charge the kids BEFORE they pick up the food to avoid this situation.
i get free lunch lol.some are good some aren't
In my old high school, if you were from a low earning household, you'd get free lunch on taxpayer funds. The other students could rack up debt and still always get lunch, but would have to send a note home and get frequent automated calls forwarded to their parents. You'd be excluded from signing up for prom, dances, and home field sporting games until you pay it off.
This is wrong, & abusive! No child should ever be refused food! I'm so disgusted! When I was a fill-in lunch lady, no child went hungry! I used to pack extra food in my daughter's lunches to share with hungry students! Money before kids is wrong!
You should inform the parents of the child that the lunch funds are low, not the child.
They were doing him a favor. School lunches suck.
LazyDog still they are wasting food a starving person could eat and it wasn't even touched...
Also taught him a valuable real world lesson about the consequences of not taking your debts seriously.
+B T You do realize that his parents control the money not him.
Where are the parents? If you don't have money to spend then bring your own lunch... What about being accountable the kid is in HS for fuc... sake.... In a year he can drive a car.... in 3 more years he can vote....Why are we constantly blaming other people
If the government grew a pair, and began DEMANDING the EXACT amount of taxes from RICH CORPORATIONS, AND THE WEALTHY the state could provide all these programs without any problem..
communistjesus They already do that. Its just that the people in the government are too busy stuffing their pockets to deal with issues like this.
The govt is sending taxpayers money to !zrael so !zraeli children can sign "love" notes on b0mbs bound for their neighbors. You can bet !zraeli children are not going hungry as long as there are western tax payers to feed them.
and if the government would just tax everyone at the 90% rate or mandated a $50 per hour minimum wage everyone's financial problems would be solved
If we stopped foreign aid to every country around the world we could spend that money for children's lunches at school and make every single prison a workers prison that put inmates to work do all sorts of stuff like work crews cleaning up our roadways and government building grounds then they have earned their meals because they save the money hiring out separate crews to do that.
I witnessed this before. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN! NO bad behavior on this planet should result in children throwing away their food! EVER!
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Such entitlement at 15 I worked a part-time job to buy my school clothes and my lunches so my divorced mother who did not receive child support for me and worked three jobs to keep a roof over our head and a vehicle running to get us where we needed to go as well as food for breakfast and dinner at home, didn't have to
You sound like an entitled a##
Why do the kids in america have to go to school and pay for their lunches there? here in new zealand we have a packed lunch that we pack the night before or in the morning and then at school we eat that while walking around the school or sitting down somewhere in the school. (as for litter there is not one point in the school where a bin is not in sight) and if we want anything extra or its our birthday or we forgot our lunch ect there is like a tuk-shop that we call a cafeteria where you go up, purchase what ever items you want and leave to go and sit normally with your friends. the whole concept of a cafeteria being a building where kids are forced to purchase meals is quite weird. why not just bring some food from home no big deal. i dont get it. its obvious that the school is trying to make money from the cafeteria but to make kids purchase their food from them is plain horrifying.
I have never heard of a school where students are forced to buy lunches. Packed lunches from home are allowed.
oh? ok! lol so would a kid get bullied for bring a packed lunch?
Christina Pierrus
Probably. Kids get bullied for everything.
I used to bring packed lunch and no one cared.
Christina Pierrus You can bring packed lunch but today 70% of children want the fancy "barbecue chicken nuggets" instead of a sandwich and chips.
I am 69 years old. No free lunch program in those days. You either brought your lunch or you paid for pretty crappy cafeteria food on the spot. No upfront payments. Simpler times. But for those whose families are low income, someone needs to do the right thing!
Why you even have to pay for lunch is beyond me....
So "no kid goes hungry".. is out the door now, huh
Lunch should be free for kids.
@monkey6531 It is, when their parents pay for it.
wtf that boy can just pay the money wtf.
What happened to him should sicken some people.
I'm already sickened by it.
Don't say anything negative about it.
This policy is horrible. The parents are responsible for paying. Embarrass the parents not the kids.
Where will the school get money to buy food when people don't pay?
Indeed, the money comes from taxpayers anyway. Not that those who can't afford to pay shouldn't pay. But this is a good point. In my other comment i said that the school needs to keep feeding the child no matter what, and leave the financial/legal burden on the adults in charge of the child.
They have to stay in school at least 7 hrs a day it's the school s responsibility to feed them
At least put the food back away if it hasn't been touched I mean jeez that's such a waste
Once the tray is grabbed any open food is considered "contaminated" and can't be resold. Un opened milk and juices are okay to put back it's a US food safety regulation.
I think this is so stupid what if a kid didn't have money to eat at home neither their taking away food that could have been their dinner that could be the only meal they have eaten every day some school rules disgust me
That policy is COMPLETELY ASSININE! They'd rather food get tossed all because their account isn't up to date? How stupid is that?
without the high school lunch ladies and their kindness i would have been malnourished as a child. feed hungry kids your monsters.
In high school thay need to learn thay need money but give them a snack befor that call thir parents but let them eat
Julie Mansell well some kids don't eat breakfast or dinner meaning the only time they eat is at school lunch this happend to some of my close friends a while back and some kids can pass out from not eating enough and all can but some pass out faster
Just know that inmates have it better than these kids but if your not paying for something then you should not get it. I think it's a good lesson for these kids. They should know who's behind before they serve the food then it want go to waste and lead to public humiliation. This might help break most kids entitlement now days. I'm sure these kids would not be able to balance a credit card with how they think nowadays
Makes zero sence throw out oerfectly good food, while child goes hungry! Brilliant!
It was a school lunch. It wasn't exactly "perfectly good".
That makes absolutely no sense to throw the food away. You’re punishing a child with the worst punishment, for a bill that their PARENTS owe. That is CRUEL.
It’s a waste of food! Plus, a student got arrested in Texas for buying chicken nuggets with a $2 bill that was not counterfeit!
If I was the kid I woulda eaten it. What they gonna do touch me that’s assault if handled wrong 😾
welcome to 🇺🇸 where the school system is pretty fucked up!
They’re trying this thing in my school system where all meal foods are free. All of them.
That’s right, lunch is free. Milk is free. They give us free breakfast as well. Everything. For every single student.
The program is supposed to last 3 years, and honestly I think they should permanently do it in ALL school systems. None of this throw away your lunch stuff, which is just cruel.
What a way to treat the children 🥺😡
Adults acting like three year olds. Gross and disgusting. It’s 2024 no kids should go without a breakfast and lunch. Let my taxes pay for it gladly very very gladly with a smile on my face.😊
Kids have to pay for lunch but prisoners get 3 meals free .
What a bad example they set
to the student. That was so wrong on so many levels.
Congratulations to the response of the students!
It seems to me, the students surpassed their teachers.
And shame forever on the people who would enforce and endorse a ludicrous policy.
How is a student who is under age able to pay for their lunch? This is insane.
Tough love young man; this was a lesson of economics in adulthood. We the people, in this great nation of ours, had more then 3/4 million people file for chapter 8. Our national debt is what it is. Do we need more lessons in budget management for our young adults? If this was a younger kid then no, don't throw it away and some kind of food program needs to be in place.
It’s a sad state of affairs when children are being punished because their parents cannot afford to buy their lunches at school. I think this is disgraceful behavior.
How is a child expected to learn on an empty stomach. To have to eat a pb and j while everyone around you gets a decent meal!!! How can any adult in good Conscience subject children to food discrimination. Absolutely shameful
No child should ever owe a school for food. Ever.
Lol, I remembered when I couldn't pay for my lunch, they said I can only eat PB&J, so I just didn't eat at lunch.
In my school, they won't let you starve, they would give you lunch even if you were in 20$ debt. They just didn't give you extras and they just needed you to pay it by a certain date...
This is a Teaching Moment for all involved!