EvC- You wanna see Anti-Christmas!?
According to news reports, last week food service worker Dalene Bowden was placed on leave after giving a free lunch to a hungry 12-year old student with no money. Reportedly, students are given an $11 charge limit, after which they are still provided something to eat like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but not any of the main entrees or other regular food items. Parents are notified when the $11 limit is reached.
This is a problem of >policy< being judged at the >individual< level.
It is compounded by the policy-makers refusing to stand by their decisions and instead throwing the newbs under the bus to account for its shortcomings.
So we've got a 12 year old kid, whose parent(s) can't afford to feed, so the state is stepping in and fucking it up.
Then instead of looking more towards personal/individual responsibility, like more towards the parents and less towards the school, the proverbial you looks back to the failing system for a performance increase that can make things work.
Then you people see shit go viral and make a big stink out of it and demand a political solution.
You could invite people to donate $75 to a lunch program for a $100 deduction in their property taxes and get more food to hungry kids than you could paying the Policy-Makers to try to figure that shit out for you.
It's too bad that nobody cares enough to get off their ass.
You might need them PMs, right?, but when they fail to do their jobs, you don't go to social media, which this is, and complain about it, you go knock on their door and bitch to their face in cursive.
If you won't do that, then it doesn't really matter to you.
I guess that the line is drawn depending on the knowledge and intention of the student.
The checkout cashier is, actually. the arbiter of whether or not you did actually pay, so the arguments against that don't seem too pertinent.
Anyways, I banged this out via touchscreen, so there could be "fat-finger" issues.
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