An eastern Pennsylvania school district is coming under fire for sending letters to parents demanding they pay their school-lunch debt or risk having their children placed in foster care., the parents are informed that their child has a balance of $75.25 and if they do not pay it, the parents could be reported to Luzerne County dependency court.
"Please remit payment as soon as possible to avoid being reported to the proper authorities," it states. Luzerne County Manager David Pedri condemned the school district for using the foster care system as a scare tactic. The school district said it will send another, softer letter to parents about unpaid lunch bills, WBRE reported.
"Sounds like a great idea let's uproot a child's life because your mommy and daddy didn't pay your lunch, what a bunch of over educated idiots," he posted.But another Facebook user said in a post that parents are responsible for caring for their children and the burden should not"fall on others that are paying for the meals."
What is the relation between hunger and test scores. So whose fault is it that the kids are getting low test scores if there is[food].And they do throw away,the extra food at, the end of the day; so idk y the schools so mfkn uhhh mfkn ummm. I dunno. I drank faucet water huh.
Probably the way family operates, they expected it be given to them.
ReignOfApril I don’t even have kids, but I wish they would! 😒
I’m more concerned that the children aren’t getting what they need from their parents.
OMG.THIS IS SO SAD..
Long time no see
Why are they terrorizing parents!? Parents who are most likely struggling financially!? WTF!? 😡😡😡
Sounds like a new twist on debtor's prison. It would not surprise me if the 'foster care' facility is privately operated.
Obviously they cannot take their kids over this debt. I bet they finally got the parents attention though! From what it sounds like the school is owed over $400k in lunch fees and parents refuse to pay. Some owing $450 each! I don’t blame the school for getting frustrated.
50thand8th
'For the love of money is the root of all evil.' Children are slaves of the state, if u don't continue to pay their ransom. Probably end up in a sex trafficking ring. Are they even safe in govt schools?
ARE THEY FOR REAL TERRORIZING PARENTS AND OTHERS BC THEY DON’T HAVE $$ TO PAY FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES WHOEVER GOT THAT STARTED WILL HAVE A HUGE KARMA DEPT THEY PROBABLY PULL FEATHERS OFF OF 🐦
Sounds like someone at that school used to work a sleazy debt collector.
How do you not think about how your child is going to eat. I have young adults in my home and I still think about it. The school should be ashamed trying to collect a debt with a threat. They should be finding a solution so that no child goes hungry.
SoOoOooo, because they can’t/won’t pay for lunches, lets place them in care of someone and give them money (exponentially more then the cost of the lunches) to care for the child. 🤦🏻♀️
I can’t imagine sending my child to school with no lunch or money to get food! What do they expect? Others to pay for there kid obviously
The dimwit behind this idiotic incident should be doused in ketchup and licked clean by rabid dogs. Eh, that’s probably too lenient...
Under this administration the school district feel they could do what they want & get away with it. Now they threaten to take away our kids from their parents. I guess anything goes under Trump. Do they plan to put them in cages to?Even though they can not do this, they want to
TanziaMill Whoever wrote that letter needs to be fired now!
Democrats...
jenjd2 Omg, this is terrible!
Pay up or they will be put in the protective custody of Customs and Border Patrol ...😂😂😂
Again parents are not being responsible and pay the bill. Make it at no cost to feed your child. Get a job pay your fair share.
Just audit parents for neglect as this budget must have had a hearing previous.have split sessions before time for meals and after time for meals just close lunch room down
1) Pack a lunch for your child to take to school 2) Give your child $2.75 for a lunch 3) Fill out the paperwork for free or reduced lunches at $0.40 These parents haven't done any of this. They just sent their kids to school and expected the school to handle things.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that these are mostly minority kids.
What. The. FU!
How dare they?!? What’s next, getting kicked out of my house for not paying rent?!?
😂 too far, maybe?
$75, rly? And for $100 they’ll be executed by the firing squad?😄
THE ILLEGALS COME FIRST WITH THE DEMOCRATS
WHAT?!?!?
I’d gladly pay for any child who has an outstanding bill. Shame on anyone for criminalizing economic difficulty especially for children trying to learn
How about we take the millions Trump wants to build his wall and use it for our schools and children. How about we limit ‘personal use’ of Air Force One and our secret service to go play golf at Marlago.
So SAD !!
government is bent on terrorism.
Despicable!
Separating parents from children. I thought we were against that policy?
audiomagnate Free country 🙄
Liberals use the force of government to get their way. ALWAYS!
They should be under fire - this is harsh. I'm a lunch lady, I understand the frustration. It's hard seeing parents with expensive cars, fake fingernails, fake hair, expensive cell phones and gym memberships NOT pay accounts. It's 100 times worse not feeding kids.
The school district should be helping the patents
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First of all, it was stupid for the school to say this. BUT these families do need to be held accountable for not paying their bill. These are families that should be able to afford it, otherwise they would be on free/reduced-price lunches.
Because foster care is less expensive than milk and fake mashed potatoes.
Which costs more? Give a child a meal or support and monitor said child in foster care? Aren't there any logical people anymore? I guess it's cagec20 people at 750/day or hire the judges/caseworkers for the same amount and get things moving. TrumpUGrads
What in the actual hey hey did I just read?
People who sent out letter should spend some time in prison for threatening to kidnap children. Over 30 million functional illiterates in USA because schools have refused to teach children how to read by using phonics for over 50 years.
That's extreme, regardless parents know the bill has to paid then avoiding it in hopes they don't have to pay it. Schools are already short on money. They could just garnish parents wages or suspension of driver license. Lunch shouldn't be free to people that can afford it.
Hmm, Parents must have been American Citizens
Shameful. Many people in that area live from hand to mouth. Jobs are hard to come by and don't pay. Ppl don't need that extra stress.
Well they aren’t a bunch of 14c A**HOLES. Must have voted for Trump.
Yet if you're an illegal you can get free healthcare. Lol, pathetic.
Principal Stephen Miller
School lunch should be free for everyone. This ancient class BS is very 1950.
Wow.. that is extreme. 👎
pay the bill then
The school district should just stop providing lunches to students who don’t pay.
That’s awful. Get a bag and pack lunch for your child
WTF?
as usual extreme , showing lack common sense
Don't people have to pay their bills what the fuck. Thanks to the liberal press nobody has to be responsible for their actions and no consequences.
big brother 1984
If parents choose to not pay their bills they then have chosen to face the consequences. Also, no threat of foster care was made, only the threat of dependents court. Dumbasses
Do they have the authority to do that. It sure sounds like a law suit to me. The school districts legal bills are going to be more that the price of the lunches. That makes since.
Damn, my kid would just be brown bagging it just to be safe. What an awful school district.
Foster care, well that escalated quickly and is pure scare tactics.
Just a quick glimpse forward into the Left's socialist world. Vote Red in 2020.
wtf? Approaching a 'let them eat cake' moment.
Should apply the same standard tonthe National Debt.
What?
“free meals for the children “ a very noble idea... at whose cost?
Lmao 🤦🏽♂️
No school district has any right for that idea. pubic schools have free lunch for students.
This is so wrong and unconscionable - what is wrong with the educational leaders in this PA district NYSOCFS NYSEDNews SenSchumer SenGillibrand NYGovCuomo
Who will feed them in foster care. The paid by the government foster parents. What next, debter prison?
I love how the wealthy people in this country leap to the aid of children who can’t afford lunch...🙄
Pay your way. WhyIsThatSoHard
.An extreme threat for something that could necessarily be a free amenity provided to all students
Somebody taking lessons from the Trump Administration.
RantyAmyCurtis Parents need School Choice now more than ever.
So the school has the food, a responsibility to serve the meal but they feel extortion of the parents is the priority!
That's going too far! Our school district started feeding those kids either a cheese or peanut butter and jelly sandwich! I like them myself but kids didn't! They made enough noise at home the bills got paid. If the choice dosen't work then drop down to just cheese! It works.
That’s absolutely ridiculous
get your buddies at the other networks and start a campaign to feed our kids. Make this kind of aggressive and misplaced harrassment history. In a country that wastes $160 billion of food EACH year, we can figure it out. FeedOurKids
That's evil. This guy needs to be fired. I'd love to see him interviewed.
It's all part of the ongoing effort to criminalize poverty.
This is an outrage!!.. How dare the parents build up school meal debts!!
That's ilegal.
And it is FALSE information. child Protective Services are NOT pleased with this threat.
School lunches is a big deal. It is time to go back to the paper bag peanut butter and jelly sandwich and an apple.
AMERICA. Same as it ever was.
I believe the proper modern day journalism term is backlash.
Lol, those parents don't care.
pulte
So now the district will give all free lunch next year and all the parents will expect free lunch from now on, because it was forgiven for a few. The district should have had an effective remedy in place before this moment. Chipmunks in the Grand Canyon.
And, if the school lunch debt still remains unpaid, it's off to debtor's prison with the lot of them!
But whatever you do, don’t lay any hands on them, don’t threaten them, and DEFINITELY don’t sign anything or agree to anything on paper that’s false or untrue. No matter the pain or pressure don’t let your kids see them break you. Show your kid what civil disobedience looks like.
Nothing short of pathetic.
I bet they are trump supporters, heartless as usual
Mine was taken for seven months and now I’m pursuing civil litigation. Go to court, get as many dates as you can, argue EVERYTHING. Clog the system and be civilly disobedient. Become such a massive drain of time and resources that it becomes easier to just give him back.
They actually don’t even have that much foster care so it’s an empty threat. They’re all talk, they don’t even have the room, funding, or resources to mess with people’s children the way they threaten. Tell them go ahead and take my kids and see how quick they change their tune.
Wonder if this will confuse 'the cult'. MAGA!
Lock them up
Hmm, well all those parents should have their lawyers send the school a letter....
Fundraiser! I’d contribute!
KattyKay_ Feed our children so they can focus on learning. School lunch should be free, and in some situations encourage children to attend school daily.
Greed. Greed. Greed. What’s in it for me, me. Our proud new American motto.
peterdaou How does sending these children into foster care help the situation at all? Seriously what are they feeding them for lunch filet mignon? Children who are hungry do not learn as well. I live in Pennsylvania not thank God in this district.
School lunch should be free! End of story! They are going too far
How ridiculous this is
How much more blatantly corrupt can this school district be?
Tax Wall Street
Whoever signed that letter should be fired.
Instead of charity abroad how about some charity at home 🤔 Socialism and school lunch works fine in Europe
A true Trumpian approach...
Well hey, the parents would face legal action if they kept their child from attending school. No sack lunch, no money to buy lunch, and never any attempt to discuss with the school their inability to pay, or to feed their child? Abuse, or irresponsibility..
Free lunch programs exist and are means tested. These parents failed to either apply or to meet the threshold for qualification. What type of person, that has the means to provide for their children chooses to pawn their responsibilities off on the community? Un-American
Why do parents not want to feed their children?
Maybe Don would be willing to not play golf for one day. That would cover thousands of school lunches.
Stupidity is in the air. So ridiculous .👎🏾
What in the hell is going on in Pennsylvania? First the white congressman who says he's a person of color and now this.
peterdaou Poverty isn’t child abuse. What a cruel and hateful way to talk to parents who struggle. And for a school district to be talking this way is just disgusting. A sign of our times unfortunately.
Pack a lunch for your kid, give him the $2.70 for a lunch or fill out the forms and get the reduced price of $.40. It's not that hard, people.
Trumps America
'School Lunch Debt' ponder that phrase for a moment. Why the fuck is that a thing? I remember bringing a quarter and a dime (because I was spoiled and wanted chocolate milk) to school. Even by the time I graduated (1995) it was still under $2. R they getting gourmet cooked meals?
Guess they must have taken a lesson or two on how children are treated at the border.
Where's the 2020 Democrats when you need them? Free! Free! Free!
autumnsgrammy I don’t have much money but I’ll chip in. Sheesh.
Uruguay gives free breakfast, snacks, and lunches to school children whose parents are having financial strains. Time to help parents struggling to afford their children’s lunches. The principal should resign! Poor leadership is like walking with broken flip flops!
When r they bringing back debtors prison?
peterdaou Scary thing when people lose their humanity is they’re not even aware they’ve lost it. How many people had to think this was okay before this action was taken? I don’t think we really realized how morally dead we’ve become. I don’t know how to make us realize it.
peterdaou Nice. How does a letter like get approved? MULTIPLE people had to agree to send it. Not a crime to be poor or struggling.
What in the absolutely fuck is this? Parents should never be threatened and children should always be fed. Find a way to cover that debt from somewhere else and ensure your budget can cover this in the next year. Ppl don’t just “not pay” bc they don’t want to. Find a solution.
That's what Trump would do. Welcome to the new America.
'After giving trillions in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, Trump’s latest budget balances on the backs of struggling families.' 3-22-2019: 'The President’s budget calls for a cut of $1.7 billion to school meals over 10 years'
$22,000 total debt ÷ 1,000 students = $22 average per student Reading the demographics of that area and this story and I am confused.
All that for $20,000 ... ridiculous
Yeah that’s wrong
Why do people now think they don’t need to pay their bills? If you can’t pay go to the school and discuss it I’m sure the school will help find a solution....it’s not fair to other parents that work hard to pay their child’s lunch bill.
So predictable. Thread full of 'Trumps Fault'. So much ignorance in America.
frec1016 I was around when Free Lunch first started in 1967-68. Our school used to give us breakfast and lunch and didn't care how many times we asked for another helping but since we are righteous we can send them to jail. Orphanage coming, this is why no abortion, selling kids now.
Heartless people waging war around the world keeping kids hungry at schools ....what kind of superpower is this......shame
This is fucking outrageous.
peterdaou Waiting for all these patriots™️ to rise up and fight for the kids... any day now I’m sure...
Im not paying, take me kids....PLEASE lmao
Every school lunch should be free Pete2020
peterdaou That place is hicksville (and I don't mean Hope Hick's home town). NEPA
This has to be a troll this has to be like a teacher's aid and had access to a computer and sent all of these to alot of parents, how dumb do you have to be to send a paper to parents saying hey if you dont give us money we will kidnap your child........wow
peterdaou Trump country - so not surprising
peterdaou Child right to food...? What kind of goverment overreach is that…? Oppression of the state. realDonaldTrump stop this idiocy. Freedom for all!!!!
peterdaou There you have it. Why not just cage them?
Are there no workhouses! Bah hambug!
peterdaou I wrote a thread on this after reading the HuffPo article. What do you find most obnoxious about it? What bothered me is that the federal government grant program is already paying the school to give every kid at the school lunch for free!
peterdaou So I see the child separation policy has now been adopted by school districts? What the fuck is going on America?
They separated children from their parents during slavery-- they still think that's ok.
Tge school should be sued.
They throw away food for goodness sakes!
peterdaou We know how important nutrition is for children (and humans in general) to function well. Maybe instead of poor shaming parents you could create a program that supplies these kids with lunches?
peterdaou But the federal government puts children in cages without soap, tooth paste, showers blankets, pillows, or beds and inadequate nutrition and for this they spend $775 of our money per child per day. WTF is wrong with this country?
What fresh Hell is this
peterdaou Trumpization is creeping in to lots of places in everyday life.
As if they are only allowed to receive 'nutrition' at school.
Yes, that's a EXCELLENT representation of that Christian society Americans always brag about to other nations.
Ill get there bags packed...now make sure lil jimmy takes his add medicine
peterdaou As they should be!
A cruel and sadistic idea with a Dickensian twist here, just typical of a greedy Western capitalist mentality still in moral free-fall.
tom steyer could easily help out these kids but no. please run for president instead 🙄
Is there a school left?
Signed Betsy.
‘School lunch debt’ is so American
peterdaou Foster care!! You’ve got to be kidding!!!
joshtpm I assume the bureaucrat who wrote this letter has been fired, as he should be?
Bring lunch from house,if family's is pore the school the should paying for lunch free
joshtpm School lunch prices should be based on the family’s ability to pay. Why not make it reduced price or free if the family is struggling? This is discrimination against the poor. Someone should be fired for this.
joshtpm The real story here is the school district made lunch free in some schools and so parents in other schools decided to also not pay.
joshtpm This is one more case of dastardly overstepping into the rights of decent people. These are the toe-dips of water testing. How comfortable are you with this?
Someone pay 4 them. It is obvious they cannot afford to pay. It could be they don't know. My son used 2 use his lunch $ 2 buy snacks unbeknownst 2 me & I would get a notice every few days. Only let them buy lunch.
I understand a debt is due but shouldn’t threaten to ruin the child’s life over it in foster care
And the millionaire Trumps budget for golf... $100 Million Bucks. Paid for by tax payers.
Those poor kids
This is unbelievable if true! Trump Cult members will be the ones who suffer the most!!
... on top of that the food is shit. Time to bring back food made and prepared on site by kitchen staff. It’s bullshit.
Oh no...there are rules an laws .we have to go by . whAt
What!
So now I can just demand my kid’s school to pay for her lunch and if not claim harassment and targeting? Ok
Jeez!!! school lunch?
Yes school districts acting like they are God.....humm sound familiar
Fire the heartless person that probably doesn’t know that one in five go to sleep hungry
Is it so much to ask to feed your children!?
Zero parental responsibility.
What in The Handmaids Tale?
YELLOW JOURNALISM
Cato_of_Utica Lunch should be free. For everyone.
that’s a little extreme
School lunches are incredibly cheap, if you're behind $75+ it means you're not taking care of your kid and I don't think calling CPS to making sure everything was okay is the worst thing that could happen.
Pennsylvania Luzerne County, Wyoming Valley West School District. Average income $38k Sent threatening letters to parents RE: school lunch billing of $75, threaten to report parents to “appropriate authorities” for non-payment. A trump voter county
Hostage taking by the school board. If families can pay they should of course. Some cannot and don’t qualify for SNAP etc. Threatening to remove their children is a whole new level
WTF!
Yeah PA is like that. A real bunch of tight ass white men. How we are a blue state I’ll never figure out. They tried to take mine but I took them to court and won. Now PA CPS can not compel a urinalysis test on anyone. This is now case law. Doesn’t stop them from asking.
Everyone now has made being stupid as a cool!! They are following the leader POTUS
Democrat Gov. and Lt Governor.
This is so wrong they should never be allowed to make such threats and I’m sure the parents will pay the debt as soon as they can
Wow PA! Schools should provide free lunch for those in need in the first place. Foster care? Really? Seems extreme!
In one letter shared on social media and obtained by wbrewyou, the parents are informed that their child has a balance of $75.25 and if they do not pay it, the parents could be reported to dependency court.
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