The Anti-Spirit of Christmas

You can back off the vigilante self-righteous indignation. This is an ongoing problem with schools racking up debt over unpaid school lunches for which there are no clear guidelines. Yes, lousy government but much bigger than any single case and it's not exactly gone unnoticed. Cafeteria Incident Renews Debate on School Lunch Debt

Yeah, I would agree except for your self-righteous self-congratulatory moral certainty which is just as disgusting. These people are squeezed between their consciences and the accounting department which is breathing down their necks and justifies that sort of crazy wasteful solution to the problem. Write a letter to your congresspersons, that would be more productive. Take the realities into account before you do and then offer constructive suggestions.

We all know the correct moral answer to this. The question is why are the schools in this position in the first place? I don't think this is the only case where a food worker's job is on the line for serving an unpaid-for lunch to a hungry child. It shouldn't be up to these workers. There's a bigger problem going on here.ABE: this is a problem all over the country as I understand it. Each school handles it differently. Im sure lots of kids get the second-rate sandwich solution when they can't pay for the hot lunch, and lots of workers are tempted to give them the hot lunch anyway. Maybe some do and get away with it. Somebody probably just decided to make an issue of this one for Christmas. And probably lunches do get thrown out when they can't be paid for too. Focusing on this single case misses the big picture.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

It was mostly your perfectly disgusting vindictive retribution to some poor harassed person who was probably pressured into firing the food worker --according to the law -- that offended me the most. Who are you to judge people like that? You don't know what those people are up against. And of course your low-life uncivil form of vengeance creeps me out. I'd hope they'd throw the cheerios in your face.Happy Whatever yourself. Kwanzaa?Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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