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"The Wyoming Valley West School District Board of Directors sincerely apologises for the tone of the letter that was sent regarding lunch debt. It wasn't the intention of the district to harm or inconvenience any of the families of our school district," the school said in an "apology letter" on its website.
The fuck it wasn't
The fact that they refused to accept the donations before the public backlash says everything. I guess people don't like it when you mess with their orphan-crushing machine?
Earlier this week Bernie Sanders called for an end to "school lunch debt". The senator, and one of the Democrat candidates for president, tweeted that it "should not exist in the wealthiest country in the history of the world" and pledged to "provide year-round, free universal school meals" if he won the White House.
LOL, imagine thinking Democrats would nominate someone standing on a "let's feed poor people's kids" platform. Was never going to happen.
I got kicked off free lunch when my mom married a rich guy. I didn’t eat lunch, or breakfast from 6-11th grade. I’d start to feel sick during the last couple hours of class.
It’s not something any child should experience. It was not something I had power over, other than digging quarters out machines to get like a Vitamin Water or something.
America, the only country where they think they could not be any more selfish.
Sounds like a fly-over shit hole state to me.
I don't think there's any other country in the world that has such policies.
This sounds like a great way to generate a different headline,
"Local man kills 4 in attack of school board meeting after losing his children over school lunch debt"
If you want to look at this situation from an economic point of view ..... what's cheaper?
Pay a kids lunch every day for about 12-14 years .... and for a growing kid, the price wouldn't be that much, especially if you are paying in bulk amounts for hundreds or thousands of kids.
or
Don't pay their lunch, let the parents go into debt, take the kids into foster care .... now you as the government have to pay for legal expenses to take the kid away, expenses to have police and social service workers to do the work, foster expenses to house the kid and care for them (now you are having to pay for every single meal for them for years), give up the kid once they become of age and go out on their own after foster care as a disillusioned, angry and frustrated young man or woman who will more than likely end up on the street dealing drugs, crime or prostitution ... who will then grow up causing or contributing to crime and increasing the costs of police, legal, emergency health care, security and penitentiary .... and chances are they will have children who will end up at school not being able to pay for their lunch
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If you pay to help the kid when they are young, there is more of a chance they will grow up to be a contributing healthy member of society. If you don't they will become a lifelong burden on society and cause endless expenses that will be far more money than any school lunches you could have bought when they were ten years old.