NBC News – by Henry AustinDozens of children at a Utah school had their lunches seized and thrown away because they did not have enough money in their accounts, prompting an angry response from parents, it was reported.
“She took my lunch away and said, ‘Go get a milk,’” Sophia Isom, a fifth-grader at Salt Lake City’s Uintah Elementary 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.’”
Up to 40 kids suffered similar treatment, given fruit and milk as their lunches were thrown away, the station reported.
Isom’s mom Erica Lukes called the move “traumatic and humiliating” and told the Salt Lake Tribune she was all paid up.
“I think it’s despicable,” she said. “These are young children that shouldn’t be punished or humiliated for something the parents obviously need to clear up.”
Salt Lake City District Spokesperson Jason Olsen told the Tribune that parents had been notified about negative balances on Monday and a child nutrition manager had decided to withhold lunches to deal with the issue. They were thrown away because once food is served to one student it can’t be served to another, he explained.
WTF is this world coming to?
The Jews that run this country are all about money, if you don’t have any, they have no use for you. It’s ok for the communist Jews to steal OUR wealth and things that WE have worked for but if WE can’t pay OUR bills…….oh well. No Jew banker bailouts for us!
Before we pulled our youngest out of public school, it was the same thing and that was in 2008. If you had a negative balance your child would not eat. The office would give them a PBJ and call you and treat you like a worthless piece of crap. I am just grateful that we homeschool and don’t have to deal with this crap anymore, Public Schools are just indoctrination camps.
Missy, my youngest daughter is in her last year of school and I couldn’t be happier about it. Home schooling is what I wish I could have done so I wouldn’t have had to deprogram them every time we speak to each other. I realize the propaganda doesn’t end just because she’s no longer in school but I hope that I have at least done something to make my children question and oppose the official party line. Good on ya
I agree, our 2 oldest were in public schools, I homeschooled a little bit, but nothing major. I am glad you are deprogramming!! It is just getting so bad. Homeschooling is tough, especially her having friends and keeping her busy, but I saw no other choice, Obummer getting elected in 2008 woke us up and I had to pull her out! The middle school she was going to is like a prison with police, etc. Real sickening.
Funny you should mention prisons. Her high school, which cost us 100 million dollars to build btw, was designed by a firm which primarily designed prisons previously! So many shades of grey in there and cops at the door. Just like the real thing:/
Exactly, all about conditioning. We pulled her out in the middle of 5th grade, well 7th grade she wanted to go back to school. So I agreed and the second day of school she called me and said “Mom, I cannot do this, please come and get me” Well I hauled ass to her school and pulled her out. I remember the principal saying “well, it is your right to homeschool” with a smirk on his face. I thought to myself, probably not much longer! It did feel like a prison, you had to show ID, they had to look you up in a database, there was always cops on campus, for middle school! I can imagine High School is even worse.
You need to show ID now for middle school even? Whatever happened to teachers taking attendance by role call? What the heck are they getting paid for if they can’t even do a simple thing 30 second task like that?
I guess doing role call is not a part of getting your teaching license anymore. Then what good is that teaching license if you don’t know how to do one of the first things involved in teaching such as taking attendance?
That’s like having a license to make a PBJ sandwich and not even know how to put it on bread. WTH?
…I totally agree with the aspect of getting out of the public school system….I took my son out of public school after 6th grade and went broke paying for private school…last month I attended my son’s college graduation and commissioning into the US Army as a 2nd Lt…..I am so proud of all of my children…and to a large degree…they are independent thinking…intelligent young folk who have no need or desire to accept the indoctrination..
The people in the US have been awakening for a long time now…I think it is time to (long ago) start standing up…..
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – The Life of an Insane Family
Congratulations to your son!! All we can do is our best. You are lucky I could not afford private school. So homeschooling was the only option.
I agree people are waking up, but I feel it has to get real ugly before the masses wake up. Look at Atlanta, with only 2 inches of snow, it was chaos.
Question: How can you be proud your son is now in the military? He is going be part of the problem or he will be dealt with. I would never encourage my children to join the military.
Bill…believe me when I say..I’m not all that comfortable with his choices…but they are his choices, and as an adult, mature 22 year old…he has that right …eh? You see…I worked for the US DoD for over 24 years all over the world …Japan, Germany, Bosnia..Hungary…and for over two decades of that time I spent it as a “Federally Protected Whistle-Blower”…who was abused by the CoC for decades…but I finally beat them at their own game and they had to eventually to pay for my retirement…although they have cheated me out of about 1/2 million dollars in remaining lifetime benefits…so I have explained ..and he knows how corrupt the whole thing can be…and that it can “steal your soul” (so to speak)…but he seems to have a very mature outlook on his choice…the other thing I wonder about (but do not ask) is if he is fibbing a bit to me..as he graduated from Christian Brother’s High in Sac/Ca and then has majored in Psychology in college…while learning to be an “artillery specialist” (someone who shoots big guns) for the Army…so I wonder if perhaps he has not been recruited by some other Agency with 3 letters attached to their mission….? But in response to your question…I rely on the fact that the young man has character and honor, and I think he will keep his actions as honorable as can be possible given the circumstances. BTW…my other 22 year old son is a sound engineer and a great guitarist trying to cut his teeth in the music world…so how they came out so different is interesting to me…but they both seem to be very mature, productive young men…with a path in life and a plan…so I am pleased with that…
Regards.
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – The Life of an Insane Family
They’re twins?
No actually….I conceived my son Dylan while working in Japan…(where I raised my first wife’s daughter Jessica)…but he was born in Maryland when I was assigned to Andrews AFB (where I got his Mom aboard Air Force One) …then we were off to Europe for a few years..where she had an affair…and when I was transferred to California…she divorced me… I met my second son’s Mom in California..and I raised Frankie for about 11 years while living with his Mom…we then got married…and after 4 months…Frankie’s Mom divorced me…in fact…one of the proudest moments of my life was when Frankie told me “I think of you as my Dad..more than my real Dad”…that was a great moment..despite the situation…eh?
So both my my boys grew up together..and consider themselves brothers..as does my daughter Jess….
I discovered at the age of 49 that I’d been genetically epileptic my whole life and had been suffering from “unobserved” seizures…and I drove off a cliff …during a post-seizure fugue-state…and my 3rd wife finally observed and admitted that she observed my seizures…something I think my first two wives didn’t wish to deal with….as I am certain they must have seen something in the almost 20 years I was with both of them….(?) But that is on their conscience…not mine..as I was not /am not an abusive person or difficult to get along with…so I am just plucking along…to the best of my crippled ability…
Regards,
RJ
Thanks for clearing that up, RJ. Both being 22, I just assumed………..
No problem…I enjoy telling the story some times…(as I like to tell stories) …but I really enjoy the fact that I was able to help to produce three remarkably stable, even-tempered, mature adults…who all love and care for me…and if you ever read my memoir…you would understand why I take pride in that outcome….
…one more short story…to provide contrast…
..when I was about 7 years old…my Dad..who was 6 foot 9 inches tall and weighed 350 lbs….(drank 3 -12 packs a day) and was a corrupt Cop)..he had me helping him build a porch on the front of the house..and my job was to hold the spacer board to insure the floorboards went in straight. My Dad’s nickname for me was “Hitler’s Atrocity” because I was born 2 months premature and he always said I looked like one of Hitler’s Concentration Camp Survivors…so I was not very strong or big enough to hold the board properly…anyway…one board he put in did not go in straight..and when he started to pull it up..he yelled at me..”if this board breaks pulling it out…I’m gong to beat your ass with it”.
As he pulled the board up I heard it crack..and I took off running across the yard..towards the ball field where a little-league game was happening across the street…from about 15-20 feet away…my Dad threw the broken off part of the 1×2 and speared me in the back…leaving a load splinters and blood dribbling down my back…while the several hundred adults at the park simply turned away and acted as if they had not seen what just happened…Dad was a Cop….what were they going to do?
My book’s title…Webster Groves refers to the city I grew up in..which was chosen by CBS News as “six square miles of the American dream”.. and they did two nation-wide, hour long documentaries titled “16 in Webster Groves…in 1968 and again in 78 depicting the perfect American City…ha!
My memoir kind of puts another point-of-view out there…!
Regards,
RJ
Cops will be cops, RJ. Even back then the Blue Wall was in effect.
Sad story, my friend.
Thank you very much for homeschooling.
-flek
I have to thank God for that one, he just put it in my heart that it was the right thing to do, and we have for the most part worked out of the house since we started homeschooling. As before we were always out of town, so I feel God made this one happen!!
Amen, Missy.
RJ, I wasn’t trying to be mean, I was just asking and thank – you for the response. Yes, it is their choice and we must live with it. I am very unhappy that my daughter chose to become a public school teacher and my son in law a piggy. I try to teach them, but some things they have to learn on their own, unfortunately.
After teaching math in two HSs, in rural areas mind you, I decided (being ceritified and all) to homeschool my son and later daughter…along the way I got a job teaching in El Paso in a gangland HS (had to…we needed the money) while still homeschooling them in the evening. Only worked there a year…like I said, gangland! But biggest reason I chose homeschooling was because I knew just how lousy a public school education could be…the teaching usually gets the blame but it just seemed to me (being a math teacher, algebra, etc.) that most students considered ignorance a badge of honor, and the parents? Most parents couldn’t care less as long as the students passed. In El Paso, I think I wound up flunking about 70 percent of them…they didn’t care (like I said, gangland), the parents didn’t care, and really the administration didn’t care either. This was in 1994-95…it must be much worse by now!
Poo….let me try this one more time. Watch this creepy “stay in school” commercial.
Heartless scum.
…what an idiotic commercial…I’d fire everyone who came up with it..produced it..or promoted it…especially since they portray the “skipping of school” in such a promising, fun light…right up until they begin to blow people up…isn’t it amazing that the government cannot get away from… “blowing people up”… that they do not have any more imagination that to produce that POS…
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – The Life of an Insane Family
“They were thrown away because once food is served to one student it can’t be served to another, he explained.”
These prison guards are absolute idiots. Throw away, ie waste food. Starve the child. Yeah, that will teach the children.
…considering that I disagree with most all of this idiocy…the one thing I agree with…is the “wasting” of the food…if they were not gong to give it to the originally planned student..then tossing the food was the correct thing to do… as a NSF Certified Sanitation Teacher and Proctor…I know that the liability of giving that food to another child puts the school and other kids at risk..
The proper method would have been to leave the kids out of the equation and simply call all the parents who were “behind”…and manage the financial situation separate from the kids nutritional needs…what idiots…what fascists
…what animals these people are….
RJ O’Guillory
Author-
Webster Groves – the Life of an Insane Family
“Up to 40 kids suffered similar treatment, given fruit and milk as their lunches were thrown away……”
Likely healthier than the cr@p that was thrown out.
Heavens forbid someone who pays taxes and keeps the government funded and pays full price for their kids lunches should get away with a negative balance for more than a week. Pricks, they tried this with my kids, but the principal put a stop to it and assured the lunch lady the bill would be paid because we always pay it, but I guess all schools are not as good as ours.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/elementary-school-takes-away-students–lunches-due-outstanding-balances-on-accounts-174726995.html
look what happens when the school is humiliated by the public..There needs to be more of this humiliation going on, all the way to DC ..and any other bunch that thinks running our lives is going to be a cake walk