Stupidity exists inside schools too

@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
November 12, 2013 11:06am CST
A child on a subsidized lunch program gets to school, and is told he can't have his meal because his account is 30 cents short. The mother is called, and rushes to the school to pay the 30 cents, but finds out that the boy's lunch was thrown in the trash. Yep, you heard it here folks. A $1.25 breakfast thrown in the trash because the school couldn't wait for the boy's mother to cough up the thirty cents. Only in America.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Nov 13
Sort of like in -DOGMA- (if it's not in that Amazon-Store now, it will be soon), where the demonized angels find that they can get back into Heaven if they cut off their wings & walk through the gate of a special church (thus proving G*d wrong and negating all of creation that ever will be, is, or was before ) Before I rehd your recap of the story, I was gonna say, 'Yep, just like you'll find the WORST sinners INSIDE the church!'
Building Your Library Shopping Cart Miserable Pebble as Cornerstone Yes, I do have the books in this first 'room,' but (as with the movies) I hear-about/borrow/WISH-I-HAD a lot more! (Sure, that's what the 'public libraries' are for; but what about MY libr
@songst557 (232)
• China
15 Nov 13
It's a kind of discrimination. It happens at every corners in the world,what can we do?
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Nov 13
speak up!
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• China
18 Nov 13
You are right,things like this must be spoken up,but the question is whom we should tell?Maybe write to the school master would take some effect,if it's a responsible school. I can remember an episode of a classic movie 'The Shawshank Redemption',To build a library,Andy write to the state governor consecutively,until the end,he reach his goal,I think it may bring us some inspiration.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
13 Nov 13
That's supposed to be illegal isn't it? At my girls school they have an "alternate lunch" (sandwich, fruit cup and milk) for students who can't pay.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Nov 13
I have no idea if it's legal or not...
@topffer (42156)
• France
13 Nov 13
Not only in America. Although it is illegal in France to refuse to give a meal to a child at school, it happens often, and I can even tell you something worst : a 5 years old girl was took out from the school canteen by the local police in a small town at the beginning of this year, because her parents had not paid for her meals . What you are describing is really abusive, but it is significant of how our western world works : it is preferable to throw food in the trash than to feed a child that cannot pay . The same western world gives also billions to help people in need, so you cannot condemn it completely... I only condemn its contradictions.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
13 Nov 13
I'd say the western world gives more to people who don't need help thanto those who do.
• Moradabad, India
13 Nov 13
I think that it is the heinous crime. The schools are opened to give the lessons of morality. If this behaviour is done with a little child,what a child will learn and what will they educate. Thanks.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
13 Nov 13
You are right, that's very immoral. But it's indicative of a society that seems to value money above all else.
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• Moradabad, India
14 Nov 13
@dawnald Thank you very much for a good response. I ask," What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his ownself."
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• Peoria, Illinois
15 Nov 13
Considering we all learned Spanish in school and none of us needs or speaks it, that's even more surprising.
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