School officials speak about threatening parents with foster care over lunch debt

I'm playing averages here but I'll bet the board are majority Democrats.

Julian_Epp Me: that is MESSED UP! Also me: Carl’s Jr. fuck you I’m eating. idiocracyisuponus

Someone needs to step up and these Parents pay this debt ASAP. And then these Parents need to put their Kids into different schools , or else have their kids brown bag it. For the school year

The era of trump

Stop shaming people.

Great PR

Can someone give me the definition of extortion?

No, they threatened dependent court.

My wife being a former teacher had paid more than once for a child’s meal. In some situations they only eat at school and that’s just breakfast and lunch. If you can’t pay please ask or look for assistance.Most districts should have it.

Didn't pay my kids lunch debts and now they're in foster care and I'm in lunchers prison

FIND ANOTHER SCHOOL

FIRE THOSE OFFICIALS HOW DID THEY CLIMB THE LADDER

Everything should be free!

Wouldn’t it be easier for go “old school” and just pack their kids lunch? Don’t say you don’t have the food in the house. Give up a manicure, a pedicure, hair braids, cigarettes, fast food dinner. We’ve done that for years.

Kind of like the pauper's prison in England during the early centuries. May I make a suggestion, feed the children for free and find sponsors in the community to support it. Easy peasy!

does anyone know where kamala harris is today?

Must have been really good food

WTF

These people are the supposedly intelligent life teaching children?

Threat of child separation for lunch money 🤦🏿‍♀️

It would be interesting to know the political affiliation of those board members, and their vile mouthpiece lawyer, who approved of that letter. I'm thinking they're Republican TrumpTards . What OTHER party would even conceive of such scurrilous anti-family language? 🤔

Great country 🤮

Good. I bet these parents pay hundreds for cell phones, liquor and cable. Why should the tax payers feed their brats?

Welcome to America!

Our tax money should be going to these kids school lunch instead of realDonaldTrump pockets

Who’s running our schools?

What a great country. MAGA

Oh wow you can pay a sum under $100 dollars. Let’s steal your child from you and allow the taxpayer to care for them.

If I were a parent my response would be 'over my dead body'

When I went to high school in the Bronx the lunch was free, I never had money anyway we were poor (still are) in nyc they will never let a child starve

Who does this? Are they completely out of their minds? There's quite an arrogance in this country, when it comes to people who are down on their luck. They never think they will be in the position to need help, so they feel free to be complete assholes to others. Karma's a bitch.

😡😡😡

breakfastclubam HOT97 ChiliPeppers

Class action suit will cost the district way more than late lunch payments.

WTF?

Is that legal? But we feed illegal immigrants and not our own?

So is 'do what we say or we kidnap your children' America's answer to everything now?

A bit extreme don't you think?

There are a lot of families struggling. Go by your elementary weekly and put what you can afford in a kids lunch account. The schools secretary will know who needs it most.

veggie64_leslie So basically they are saying these parents are guilty of child neglect, but if they give money to the school they won't report them?

If the kids aren't being fed, it's neglect and yes, the authorities need to look into it.

Wow even in Ghana Africa school lunch is free,and children pay for lunch in the world's greatest nation on Earth.

This is just amazing, school district around the county face this problem. But our democrats in Congress are focused on giving immigrants a free ride, food, housing , medical etc. but turn a blind eye to American children. Keep voting the democrats in office ,idiot

What? Are they allowed?

dianeasmith1 Jesus Christ

Wait....what?

Stop with the threats. If the parents aren't paying for their kids' meals and aren't eligible for free or reduced meals, I say they should just be thrown into a debtors prison. Imagine, sending home a letter asking for payment. Shame.

JulsOtter Ain't capitalism great?

this is monstrous

How about Filling out your paperwork for your reduced lunch, NOT Hard thing to do!!!! And feed YOUR KIDS!!!!! PAY UR BILLLS!!!!! DAMN take care of your kids needs!!!!!! ITS UR DAMN JOB AS A PARENT!!!!

WintersPilar This is America? Under realDonaldTrump

If that's the way administration handles minor disputes/ distractions, get replacement s for these micro thinking brains.

katjl_ “Vare vee vill introduced your Liebchen to proper respect for die Führer, der Stat, und our MotherLand! - 🎶Let - Freedom- Ring- 🎶 ...this message brought to you by the new Nazi Order of GOP America-

I thought thing were terrible only in Mongolia.

Maybe try and find ways to help struggling families

ebruenig What the heck is wrong with America

wtf. out they go.

They could be running for President next, and they'll find a lot of people thinking that it's actually good to do this to parents of kids in school

All I hear is “we need to help our own”. But they don’t care

Is it harsh, yes. Is it the truth, yes. Either way, it should've never gotten to this level in the first place.

Quite a fine line between the rich and poor people of the great moon landing america

That’s so stupid; 2 wrongs don’t make a right....and I’m more than sure foster care is more expensive then what they owe in arrears.

That is going to far... now kids who aren’t able to afford lunch now have to be worried about being taken away from their parents. Thank goodness I’m not a kid no more I would’ve been constantly anxious thinking I’ll be taken away from my Mom if I get a school lunch

I once told the DCF that one of my cornerbacks parents smoked crack as retaliation for him missing a few practices. My friend Billy who works for the DCF skipped the investigation and as a favor deemed his parents unfit to care for him.

The GOP thinks kids are merchandise that can be repo'd

Schools do not have that authority. The schools behavior is unacceptable.

School lunches should be free.

And the school district thought this was a good idea? Oh absolutely stupid and heartless of them. Talk about privileged.

Over lunch debt. Smdh But I bet abused, troubled kids aren't even on their radar. The lunch should be free. All that's going on in the lives of Americans & they're threatening these people with Government involvement. But Trump is hiding in plain sight committing crimes.

This is predominately white school district. Color me shocked. Seriously.

Foster care jail for kids or meals?

WTF

What idiot approved these letters? Cmon

africaupdates Probably a Trump stronghold!

Just like their leaders CORRUPT

When in doubt lock em up, huh?

Well it worked for Kamala Harris....oh yeah....no it didn't.

Wait... wut...

Dog2Purple Well yeah!

This train has just derailed. Give me a break.

BetsyDeVosED FLOTUS MELANIAJTRUMP IvankaTrump

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The U.S. spent $716 Billion (up from $586 Billion in 2015), 54% of every tax dollar goes to the military, and we cannot afford to feed our children at school?

Well look what trump policy has started in Americans now. Child separation. Great policy’s to get people to see things your way. Autocratic system is slowly moving down the tracks of the trump train

reminder - this is in LUZERNE COUNTY, seen as a major democratic county that flipped and should take the credit for subjecting us to Trump

Ouch

WTF!!! Have we lost every sense of common sense and what is good.

I honest to god don’t know why it’s even legal to charge kids for lunch. These are supposed to be public schools. This is what taxes are for.

ebruenig Should be free

Guillotine

Sounds like whoever was involved should be fired... not just come 'under fire'.

It's an outrage put the school board n jail

Stupid is as stupid is

So sad the schools have to resort to threatening letters to get parents to pay for their children's lunches. If parents can't pay it's their responsibility to enroll in the programs for free meals. Elizabeth Warren has a plan to make them all free but she's not in the office yet.

They can’t take your kids over an unpaid school lunch 😂😂😂.

Damn Pennsylvania you mean AF.

REALLY I assume these are the ones who can afford it . I mean these must be white student because there is no way they would say this to minority kids. Some one would be yelling racism

Very on brand for 2019, U.S. 🙄 I hate this.

This story perfectly captures the essence of America in 2019

something like this should never happen in USA since taxpayers spend over half million dollars a day for security on trumps wife in. N.Y. when she could stay in the white house for no extra cost

What the bloody hell? How many of these kids’ parents are just not paying because... “uh, that’s what we want to do! Screw the school district and embarrass my kid!” Really?

Imagine if our schools were funded sufficiently and equitably to provide meals for all children without a bunch of corporate bullshit. I have seen students - STUDENTS - come up with mass-producible, nutritious, and tasty meals that would have a production cost of $1/student.

this is so fucked up.

Stop traumatizing children. This is irresponsible.

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