Warwick Public Schools announced on Facebook over the weekend that if money is owed on a paid, free or reduced lunch account, the student will be given a"sun butter and jelly sandwich" every day until the balance is paid in full or a payment plan is set up through the food service office.
The policy is effective starting Monday. The Facebook post received hundreds of comments from angry parents criticizing the new policy. In the past, students were served hot lunches, even if the had an outstanding balance, The Associated Press reported. The school district is owed more than $40,000 in outstanding lunch payments and cannot afford to absorb the costs, according to AP.
A local restaurant owner who twice offered to donate $4,000 to help pay down the debt was turned down both times, the AP reported. School officials said in a statement that all students must be treated equally, recommending that the donor take applications to decide who to donate the money to instead, according to the AP.
The school district offers the option for families to apply to receive free and reduced lunches, according to its website. Pending state legislation would make free hot lunches available for all students, regardless of income, AP reported.
Why, why Those who have less already feel the pain. Why does the school district feel the need to make sure the children feel like crap
Whether the food is hot or not it doesn't matter. What's really being done here is continuing the vicious circle of bullying it's taking someone's parents who are in financial crisis, why don't you just put a hat on their head and say these people can't afford to pay their meal?
Not much hot in there so called hot lunch, from what I can see.
He gave a pay what is owed
My high school handed me a slice of cheese on a hamburger bun once when I had no money on my account. That was in 2009 or 2010. This is nothing new
The meal showed above is cold or hot? No children should be receiving this meal as lunch!!
That will teach those kids a lesson for having parents who are not able to afford things.
Why should children be shamed and punished for something they have no control over? How do adults sit in a room and make this decision?
Our local high school has always done this. Bring on the outrage...because I've watched then take a hot meal away from students and trash it..then hand them sandwiches .
That hot meal looks unhealthy no wonder they're not paid. It's disgusting to see these people crying over lunch money for the children. They provide a crappy meal and they should be embarrassed.
So prisoners get hot food but poor kids that cant control their money situation get the shaft and a cold sandwich? This country makes people insane, you are mentally f'ing with kids basically telling you are too poor for a hot lunch.
So what lesson are they trying to teach the kids exactly? To make sure and pick their parents more wisely next time?
Bullying by the school system at its best. It’s not the kids fault there parents aren’t responsible enough to pay for the good or apply for free lunch.
Better than no food and having to do chores instead of eating since all students need food. Plus the chores part should only happen when students misbehave as a disciplinary measure.
Most powerful nation in the world can’t provide a quality (guilt) free lunch alongside a quality education. Still waiting for it to trickle down, I ‘spose.
Now that’s cold...
Why are people so horrible?
Ummmm.. in some place they give cheese sandwiches and not even grilled, just two slices of cold bread and one slice of cold cheese
Children deserve a good meal ... while hot or cold doesn’t distinguish a healthy, shame free, meal. This move is more about power and classism, than about building a better world for kids. Be better Warwick Public Schools, teach compassion, kindness, and sharing.
I’m probably 420 that saying it’s the parents fault not the kids
Wow really?
And they will be fine. Odds are they'll like the sandwiches better than the mystery meat and stewed tomatoes anyway.
Not enough protein. Actually, that's what I took to school for my lunches for years. Also, packed cold pizza when available.
BS
Dem-o-crats did this because there’s probably only 1 or 2 Republicans, total, in Rhode Island at most. Just saying.
I heard someone wanted to pay these kids debt and they wouldn’t let them. This is being petty and cruel 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
3/ actually I have to stop. This is my life. I pity the kids who have parents who don’t pay but they can.
Next step: if you’re poor, you can vote republican or starve.
2/ new rules have been written that these bad debt policies get written by the board, not the FS people because it’s group culpability is a thing.
1/ Food Service Director here. No kid should go hungry. The National School Lunch Program is not easy to navigate from the providers POV but it’s very important
Wow... shame on them!! prisoners get better meals than our kids!!
If you think kids give a shit about their lunch you’re out of touch.
This is an outrage! WTF?
Right... because as a country we can send billions to Guatemala, Israel, Pakistan, etc. Etc. But we cant provide CHILDREN a decent meal at school!!!?!?! And we need to try and punish and embarrass them because of their parents shortcomings?!?!
These are educators making these decisions?
But please, take care of illegals. These people are sick
Money for war but not education.
Been doing that in EastPennSD for years! Cheese or pbj. That's it.
They been doing this in Chicago
Low income family kids get free lunch, so this only impacts kids from families that can afford to pay. Parents need to step up and cover their kids' debt to the school! Ridiculous!
This actually happens in several states and been that way for years.. oldnews
Hi ImMrMeseeks LookAtMe What's wrong with sandwiches?
When I was in school, if you didn’t bring a lunch and had no money you didn’t eat.
Why isn't school lunches not paid for by property taxes for everybody
If this is the hot mean, I would take the damn sandwich!
Going unappreciated here is the alienating impact this will have on the students that can’t afford lunch.
Sounds rough. I ate a cold sandwich everyday for lunch.
Ok and?
Hooray for public schools!!
Geez this 'hot' meal looks so appetizing… Maybe a sandwich doesn't sound so bad?
If that’s the “hot meal,” give me the sando. Good God.
But let's us pay for all health care, housing, and hot meals in food stamps for the illegal immigrants
Schools have free and reduced programs for a reason. Sign up for it if u cant afford lunch, pretty simple!!
And for this appetizing nutritious meal, they pay how much- too much?
Why don’t they just put a letter on their chest so all of the other students know that their parents are struggling or just suck 🤷🏼♂️
Here's a thought why the hell aren't the parents fixing their lunch! My mother did everyday!
I'll take a Club Sandwich.
What's wrong with a cold sandwich? I eat one every day. If that tray in the picture is indicative of what their hot lunch is, then they should be sued for giving kids slop and making them pay for it.
Government cant figure out how to take $4000 to pay for these kids bill (parents bill) good grief we need a revolution again time to get these dimwitted people out of control
Meanwhile every single day they will throw out hot food they don’t sell or the cafeteria people will eat it. Enough with shaming kids!
If that’s what they serve then a sandwich is probably better. Wouldn’t swill feed that the a wild pig. No wonder obesity is an issue in America.
Every kid that brings their lunch doesn’t get a hot meal. I don’t see the big deal here. Makes us sound like a spoiled country.
In stead of realizing they cannot afford to pay and helping them. They resort to punishment.
This idea is stupid. Shaming kids is not the right choice
'We got money for war but cant feed the poor' Tupac.
Shameful
So many people are melting down about them getting a sandwich saying 'it's still free food' 'be grateful they get that'. What about the kids who bully them and tease them for mommy and daddy not paying for their lunch? Sure, screw the emotional and mental abuse they'll suffer.
The only reason the meal is different, is to publicly shame students for something that is NOT in their control. Clearly they couldn’t continue to refuse them a meal.
What the heck is that hot meal? That's disgusting ! I'll take a cold sandwich any day over that
Pay your bill
How did those chicken fingers on the left fall off the tray?
Bad idea for the kids and what looks like a bad meal as well.
I’m pretty sure I have seen that at schools here for awhile. I remember myself not having lunch money and having to get one of the homies to buy me somethin because I didn’t want the PBJ or ham sandwich
Wait... they’re still getting a free lunch, right? They should be applauded for this, not criticized.
Where are the legislators and/or elite in this state to settle this small debt so children can have a hot meal. It may be the only meal they receive for the day. Just shameful! SenWhitehouse SenJackReed
You might say that the powers to be are”cold” hearted!
But you're a sanctuary state for illegals. Shame on Warwick!
OOOOO the humanity!!!!!!😂
Where the pro-life movement at? Ain’t these the babies y’all claimed to care about once?
I used to get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches back in the day when I couldn't afford the school meals. My school wouldn't let you go hungry.
How about fill out the form to see if you qualify for free or reduced lunch. I know that’s a hard task; knowing how much you make but, let’s go folks. Be productive. No one is owed a hot meal. PB and J and chips would be fine.
At my school you don’t get lunch if you owe a certain amount
WTF is even on that tray? Is there a vegetable? The closest thing to actual food there is the apple sauce. The rest of it is garbage.
I know a lot of ya’ll are just joking, but a single sandwich is not good enough, even if you might be grossed out by the picture. Part of me thinks people’s stigma towards school lunches is overriding the outrage we should feel. Schools should feed their students!
Spell cruel and cruella. How could you? You’re unbelievable!
A sandwich is food. Free food at that. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Take the food, bless God for it, and move on..
Or the parents, or even the kids themselves, could make their own lunches like I do for my child.
This been a thing lmao
Good. Learn a lesson. Pay your bills parents. Or don’t. And get nothing in return but a cold sandwich for your kid.
Shame, shame on them. There are so many negatives that will come from this plan. I do believe we are living in the twilight zone.
Yet they give everything to illegal aliens nice
Consolation: 'All men are born equal-----and die equal' All residential mansions for the rich should come equipped with birth clinics and crematoriums or mortuaries, to limit contact between privileged and underprivileged just after birth, and just before death and return to dust
Any chance we can pay for some of the balances
Shame on the parents for letting things get this bad for their families. I have worked 60 and 80 hour weeks to make sure my children had 3 meals a day, at least!
Do you think maybe parents sent the money with their kid and the kid spent it on something else?
Serve Romen Noodles, many hard working tax patients eat that meal every day for lunch.
Wtf..I thought that was the norm? What kind of fucked school did i go to
Okay America, that's it. You had your run at being your own country and clearly f****d it up. Time to go back to your Queen now.
Blame the parents
Lol first world problems
mommamia1217 I guess the school district could propose a tax levy lid lift to ask for a vote to get more money to cover all hot lunches for students?
that lunch looks inedible...yuk
This looks terribly healthy too
Have these families been told about the free/reduced cost lunch program? Are these kids with family incomes just over the that line or do they have parents with enough income to pay but don’t. Where are theses families economically now vs when the child started the year.
That shouldn’t even be legal that’s shaming a child and mistreating ! - this is America? What a greedy and shameful country we live in when a school system will not give a child a hot healthy meal shame shame shameful close that school down. Its poison
I'll be damn. Classy, Rhode Island. Real classy.
Oh the humanity!!!!! Protect the children!!! Soylent green is people!!! Stop this BS. My daughter eats a sandwich everyday. It's food people. They are still fed. Why are we pissed at the school system and not the parents of the children?
This is not new news they already do that here at our school district. Boy they are behind the times
Sounds good to me!
That’s not good. Maybe they don’t have it
Garbage. This is the real America tho. We discriminate against those who are less fortunate & keep taking from them, making them poorer, less healthy & eventually destroying everything good in them. Sick mother fuckers man I’ll tell you.
I used to eat cold sandwiches for lunch every day. No big deal.
Just bring lunch from home, it's not that hard.
Normally I'd ask what happened to the free lunch program but after looking at the picture, that sandwich may be the healthier option.
Why is this a story?
Why does our culture feel the need to apply economic status division to even something as basic as making sure kids at school get something to eat?
That’s the way it’s always been at our schools. PB & J and an apple. 🤷🏻♀️ Probably more healthy than that sorry looking lunch!
So at least they eat
Yeah that will really show those kids!! Shame on RI
I’ll take the sandwich anyway
What is that red mush? Looks like jail food..
Looking at this..I think I would prefer a cold sandwich..
Rarely did I ever get a hot meal for school lunch. Whatever happened to being grateful for what they can provide?
That’s been going on in KS for a long time. What’s your point.
This is what they did in my district growing up?
These kids have no choice about being poor or not. Why do you have to signal them out. They are innocent. It is not a significant difference between a hot meal and a cold meal cost wise.
Based on what is on that plate, a cold sandwich may be the better choice.
So it is all about money and you’re really don’t care about the kids 💩
Democrats they ruin everything they touch.. 👍🏻
FortBend ISD in Houston Texas does it. If the child owed a certain amount of money on their account they got a cold sandwich and a milk. Happened every day.
And the problem is?
My district doesn't give you lunch if you owe money OR if the meal will put you in debt.
And the cold sandwiches are probably healthier than the over-processed hot garbage that’s typically served to them.
Oh yeah, okay, way to go. Like they aren’t already humiliated, let’s embarrass them even more. By the looks of that ‘hot’ meal, I’d say feed all of the students sandwiches. You might even throw in an apple. For some, it might be the best meal of their day.
I brought my own cold sandwiches to school
Okay, yeah. Way to go... let’s feed the kids who need it most less! Like they aren’t embarrassed enough, let’s single them out and make them feel worse. Oh yeah, we wouldn’t want these students learning on a full belly... perhaps their best meal of the day. You know where to go-$
the sandwich might be healthier to be honest... Are those supposed to be nuggets? lol
That's really embarrassing for the kids. That's horrible! Why do kids gotta suffer because of the parents? Give them hot lunch. Government spends billions on stuff. $4.00 is not going to break em.
Schools shouldn’t take out bad parent behavior or parent’s misfortune on kids!
As they should!
My school did that in the 80s and 90s when I was there. My daughters school has a 2 week leeway so as long as you don't owe for more than 2 weeks meals you're fine but after that it's an apple and a sandwich.
Get. To. Work. Mom and dad. OR don’t have children if you can afford to pay for a school lunch. That is the absolute minimum cost of having a child. If that’s too hard then you aren’t ready for kids.
Do that to the detained ilegal aliens and DHS would be in so much trouble.
Doesn’t look all that healthy😳😳
For many years, the USDA has a program for free lunches for children from poor families. How many parents assume the school would never deny their child lunch if they don't pay? How many parents/kids have new smart phones but no lunch money?
Lol been doing that here in Oklahoma for a long time! I had many plain peanut butter sandwiches when I didn’t have lunch money.
Why isn’t anyone looking or worrying about the terrible lack of parenting that is happening? Responsibility anyone?
I love sandwiches!
My daughters come home from school hungry. Why? One daughter said that the hamburger was still moo'ing at her. The hot lunches served, are equivalent to which is served in our prison systems. And we all pay for both.
That’s just “cold” hearted
I'd rather have a cold sandwich than that meal.
It’s better than nothing. That’s not meant to be disparaging, but life isn’t free. Someone will need to step up and either get more funding or fill the gaps in cash receipts.
Let’s further stigmatize the poor Rhode Island. Always nice to see a state making decisions that will further alienate students.
At least they have something to eat in the greatest country on earth whereas some kids go hungry.
The outrage is silly. My Mom made me a cold sandwich & piece of fruit 90% of my lunches. “Hot school lunch” was a occasional treat on sloppy joe or pizza days.
This burns me up!!!
That’ll show them the errors of being poor! Way to single them out, guys! 🙄 😡😡
Fire one of the administrators and use that money to provide free lunches
I am ashamed of my former school district!
So what? Why is the sandwich considered peon food? Hot meals for the elite, paying student ONLY!
nothing says nourishment like processed chicken and jelly!!
OFFS! That's good! It's food.
How many kids are affected by this?
When did a cold sandwich become a bad lunch? I missed something. I used to pack a lunch every day through elementary, junior & senior high. I had PB&J, bologna, liverwurst sandwiches, etc. Sometimes an apple, banana or raisins & if I was lucky, maybe a cookie. foodisfood
Where the have you been, this ha been going on for years literally everywhere. Idiots
school lunch should be free.
Shaming kids and families for being poor is disgusting. I would hope this school district would rethink this policy. If not I would hope voters would keep this when going to the polls.
So disappointed in my home state.
What is wrong with eating a sandwich? I do all the time.
It's not right to stigmatize children for the failings of their parents.
Well if that is the cooked meal they are paying for I would rather have a sandwich.
Reading the article and the comments I have to say that how can people have an opinion when all the facts are unknown? Is the Child Nutrition program self supportive? How many parents are delinquent on payments? How much of the lunch program is Fed funded? Answer these 1st...
Sounds fair to me
100 billion dollar budget on food stamps. Still gotta pay for school lunch Gtfoh
Other kids are gonna make fun of the ones eating sandwiches though. Of course as adults we wouldn’t care.
What's wrong with sandwiches? I brown-bagged it for years.
Disgusting
That’s horrible, but not new. I never owed lunch money, but would lose my lunch ticket every other day & the lunch lady would make me wait in the hot sun for my lunch. I was the last one served. Also, she would give me the worse meal and no chocolate milk. It hurts.
Uh oh. 🙄
This is disgusting...they turned down donations to avoid embarrassing students who have no hand in whether the bill is paid or not? People are INSANE 😢
So a group of adults got together and decided the best thing to do for kids development, physically, academically and emotionally is to humiliate them.
Wow Rhode Island joining the rest of the country. We got peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when we didn’t have money. It’s horseshit that so many kids dont have lunches. It’s their parents fault. They are using the school to subsidize their lives.
They do that our school, have been for awhile!
Wait so that's a meal then?
What’s wrong with cold sandwiches?
NOOOOOO!!!! This is SO WRONG!!
At our schools, the parents, local 'Easter Worshippers' and law enforcement... have worked together getting donations so that our cafeteria has a fund for anyone who doesn't have enough money to eat and this fund pays for their lunch. I don't think we are unique.
Well, isn’t that a kick in the NUTS!!!
mommamia1217 Sooooo angry about this!
Why is this national news?
Wtf!!!
Maybe if it saves that much money a cold sandwich meal once or twice a week would be prudent. Nothing wrong with a cold sandwich. A number of people still take cold sandwiches for lunch when they go to work.
That's rude.
I can afford to buy my kids a hot meal for lunch every day, but I don’t. I pack them *shudder* cold sandwiches and snacks because they don’t need a hot lunch. I really don’t understand the problem here. So far they have lived.
The picture SAYS WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES on the bottom right corner! It's a stock photo, and NOT a counterpoint. Put away your politics and your sarcasm for one minute and imagine it was your child, or, for the more narcissistic out there, imagine it's you.
why they didn’t take the donation?
Parental problem.
This is how kids end up getting bullied. Let's feed the poor kids different food.....
Why bottled water? Haven’t they heard of preserving the environment?
The more correct headline should be “Rhode Island school district will continue to serve lunches to students who won’t pay for them.”
Why are parents who can’t or won’t keep the lunch accounts current (and school lunches are stupidly overpriced for what you get) not sending their kids to school with a packed lunch? That seems like a common sense option. I imagine the parents aren’t skipping lunch every day.
All you people complaining about how bad this is are free to donate as much as you want. Put your money where your mouth is or be quiet. You only want to spend government money, not your own.
So what! I carried a cold sandwich to school most days. In a brown paper bag. And most days it was much better than the 'hot lunch' being served in the cafeteria. Come to think of it. Most days now I have a cold sandwich for lunch. Quit being such martyrs
This is a shame! Wouldn't it be great if ALL students refused hot food, well if ALL students refused the schools food period & bought their lunch... let school figure out what to do with the food
Oh well better then NOTHING! Tell your PARENTS to get you lunch ! Good grief 👎
I don’t see the problem really. My school lunches and weekend lunches were usually a ham or PBJ sandwich. At least they aren’t saying the child can go hungry!
This is exactly how it was 30 yrs ago when I was in elementary school. I would volunteer to work the lunch line and in exchange get a free hot meal. When o had to get the sandwich, it wasnt bad.
Wow is this the gulag in Russia. Cuz even in correctional facilities they serve hot meals. These r kids we’re talking about
This wouldn't happen under Socialism. Under Socialism, nobody gets to eat. It's the only fair way!
I crap out babies that I can’t support and the food you provide for them isn’t good enough. Tweeting on my $1000 iPhone.
Are we supposed to think poorly of this school district?
And for that, children should be grateful. But you don’t like that, how about you ABC donate of your billions for school lunches? That’s an idea.
Food is food. I hope they're not picky.
Progressive isn’t t
This causes tension in schools. And I bet they throw out left overs everyday, So sad Good classmates would all just take a sandwich make a stand!
They are still providing a meal. If you don't like it don't get behind on your lunch money or bring your own lunch. If you are low income apply for reduced or free lunch.
Think about all the horrible parents that pack their kids lunches with those TERRIBLE cold sandwiches! Is this seriously a news story?
Just another example of parents not caring for their offspring. Sad
Then they should make their own lunches at home. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to keep footing the bill for poor parenting.
Friggin blue states
That's not much of a meal. It's certainly not healthy.
I’m having a room temperature sandwich for lunch.
Cant feed our own kids but sure lets keep importing more poor kids
This is not something new. Been going on for decades. Nothing wrong with a sandwich. Be thankful you have food at all.
So?
Most districts do this. Pay for your lunch.
Will they survive?
That so cruel.the hearts of man has waxed Cold.
It was previously reported that it was just jelly sandwiches (no peanut butter). WTF?! 😡
Are they going to refrigerate the sandwiches, or are they actually room temperature? When I was a kid, if you didn't have money, you know what you got to eat in the cafeteria? That's right, nothing.
There goes again
Good, we pay for our kids lunch money and buy their shoes from DSW a bunch of kids in my daughters class get free lunch which can be fine but they buy their shoes a Footlocker. Priorities is an important thing to teach. If you rock Jordan’s and Yezzys then you can buy lunch
If that's a hot meal I suspect the sandwich eaters will be better off!
Fucked up.
Kids in our district get a cheese stick but prisoners get 3 free meals a day think on that
Can’t feed kids, but let’s give tax breaks to the 1%. GreedyGOP
Pay your debts and you won’t be singled out
Countless millions of Americans work their entire life eating only a cold lunch.
What’s wrong with no lunch? Bologna on day-old bread store bread in a brown bag fed a lot of us in the sixties and seventies.
They have been doing that in Tennessee for a decade.
That is some bullshit right there. They should be ashamed of themselves
Hey Rhode Island school district: cold lunch tastes better than the crap you call a hot lunch.
How do you turn donations down? They want to shame these kids. Shame on you Warwick!
'Breaking News'
One school district in NJ was doing that a dozen tears ago!
Sandwiches are a dish best served cold.
Who gives a f)(k which shitty “lunch” the kid throws in the garbage can? Milk with no fat (nutrition!) but loaded with sugar (choco milk); fries; bisquik peetza; rubber cheezstik; govmnt ham; prepakd anything gross.
is that photo in the tweet a ‘meal?’ jesus christ no wonder americans are all fat
If you want to call that a meal. Looks like prison food.
Might be better off with a sandwich than that tripe.
In PR school food is better and its free
Embarrassed to say this is how it is in MontgomeryCoMD too
Disgusting
This country is messed, give illegals our hard earned taxes and humiliate students! That IS discrimination against the most innocent!! They have to sit with other children who qualify for free lunch, kids who were born in affluent families, eat cold sandwiches and be mocked.
Disgraceful
So?
Horrible. Let’s punish low income children. Ridiculous
What a bunch of assholes. Let's point out to everyone who can't pay for lunches so we can ridicule they're hardship.
I don’t think this is right . It just sets the children up for embarrassment why punish the children it’s wrong
Shameful
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Good, pay what you've already been paid welfare for.
That’s why the public school system sucks. They don’t care about our kids, especially the poor.
Crap I think I ate sandwiches 90% of the time since they were usually better than the hot meal. At least they are giving them something to eat.
The elementary schools on military bases, for kids with no money on their account, serve a slice of kraft singles between two prices of bread, no condiments, with applesauce and a milk. That’s it.
The school district TURNED DOWN a $4k donation from a restaurant to help pay the debt. Which means it ain’t about the money.
This is outrageous. WHY punish the child. Let them post the amount owed - I’m sure there are enough people in the community that would offer to pay. Shame on them!
So hitting the poor harder 👏👏👏🙈🙈
Our priorities are all wrong not just in this state.
Nothing is wrong here
And you wonder how schools are teaching their students.
Bastards
If that’s the hot meal I’ll have a sandwich please
I used to send $$ or give ok to my kids to share and help friends if they didn’t have any $$ in their accounts. It’s not the kids’ fault thisisshameful
I'd love for some of the people commenting here to indicate at what age, exactly, they find it acceptable to start holding kids responsible for their parents' or caregivers' inability to pay for food.
They’ve been doing that in Florida for decades. If they don’t bring their lunch or can’t pay, they get 2 slices of bread with a slice of cheese and a milk...on a styrofoam tray, different than the other kids. The humiliation was horrific.
If that's a hot meal, I'm not sure this is punishment.
RI is a terrible state
The sandwich will probably taste better than the junk they have on that plate.
4th grade in Mexico, lunches were served hot, compared to here, we all owed money, still a warm handmade flour taquitos with scrambled eggs n chorizo beats any school lunch I've had here.
They are lunch shaming these kids for being poor. They also won't accept single donations since they can't split the funds 'equally'. This gofundme is to pay it all off. 'Warwick Public School Lunch Balances' - via gofundme
What the fuck is sun butter?
I don't think I'd want whatever that is anyway....
we love that 😒 there’s usually a reason why the lunches aren’t payed for, ever heard of being poor?
Absolutely revolting that they will punish children for a problem their parents are responsible to take care off.
Here's the issue IMO, school lunches are made for old people. I have seen some lunches... Yes nutritious but kids won't eat them because they are boring. Make them nutritious, fun and tasty ...kids will eat them.
All these comments should go to the Warwick School District, it’s board and the voters. If anyone needs to be shamed, it’s them, not the children.
Hahahahaha
Heard they will be jelly only sandwiches. This is wrong.
Some people prefer a cold sandwich so I assume some kids order that instead of the hot meal.
Better than no food ?
Parents have money for cigarettes and beer but won’t pay for their kids lunch. Hmm. Let’s blame the school. Wake up people. Wtf!!
Ok, and...pay your bills! Unless you’re an illegal alien then you can live, eat, and go to school for FREE!
So they are gonna punish the child for the sins of the parents? Shame on them. hotlunchforall
Did we do away with federal lunch program?
Free lunch isn’t free.
There’s no such thing as a hot free lunch.
Isn’t it the parents fault. Biggest problem in this world today is everybody is a victim. Pathetic.
Dirt bags
No wonder Americans are fat
Wrong reverse they changed
Better than no meal...
There really needs to be a full explanation on why there isn't money to feed all the kids in every school district in this country. there is always money for the military but god forbid we feed our kids a healthy breakfast and lunch.
I’d rather have a cold sandwich than whatever this is.
There's a good way to reach kids to sneer at each other jimwallis bishopcurry FCNL BRepairers
😔
And that is a hot meal?
When my kids were in school . If we knew of a kid that didn’t have lunch money . I would send more money to cover that kid for the whole year .
Unbelievable. Like it’s the kid’s fault.
It’s still food right? At least they can eat
Happy that my child’s entire district does FREE breakfast and lunch for ALL students. Shout out IPSSchools 💙
The school system doesn’t even give options for children who don’t eat meat. Same thing cold peanut bread and jelly
Ok.
Looks like the sandwich might be a better meal!
Been doing that for years in Wisconsin
Rhode Island schools, why do you hate poor people?
The person in the photo appears to be giving the 'white power' sign.
Shouldn’t they just brandish these students with the Scarlet Letter?
Shameful.
It’s a PB & J sandwich 🥪
When I was in school and you didn’t have lunch money you had to do the dish trays
They are still eating so that’s good.
I blame over paid administrators
This is really Sad!
Even better a local pizzeria raised 4K in donations to cover it for the rest of the year and Warwick refused to take the gift.
If the parents cant afford to feed their children responsibility then may they should not be having kids in the first place.
Oh yeah smokeupdawg just like moms made
Cmon how are we going to pay for illegals... dont be so greedy!
This is not new. Most schools do this.
That tray does not have one nutritious item on it. Shame of us for not feeding our children better.
If that's what the kids are being served for a 'hot meal' then a cold sandwich is probably healthier. That school meal picture is pathetic, frankly.
Deadbeat parents not paying their bills.
This is sickening.
And?
Lunch should be free at school. We spend tax dollars are stupid shit all the time but can’t spend it on food for kids learning at school? Smh
Poverty shaming is disgusting.
we always had cold sandwiches for lunch... Only thing I don't like about this is it's punishment and not just the norm.
Which genius at the school district came up with this charming policy?
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