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January 30th, 2014
Because nothing says nurturing children like snatching their lunches out of their wee little hands and throwing the food in the garbage can.
Admittedly, recent efforts to start an after-school dinner program in New Jersey met with adamant disapproval, but it seems as though the pendulum in one Utah school just swung way too far in the opposite direction.
At the behest of the district child nutrition manager, staff at Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, began notifying parents whose children had a zero or negative balance on their lunch accounts. This, of course, is understandable and perfectly reasonable.
(( Jason Olsen, a Salt Lake City District spokesman, said the districts child-nutrition department became aware that Uintah had a large number of students who owed money for lunches. ))
As a result, the child-nutrition manager visited the school and decided to withhold lunches to deal with the issue, he said.
Thats all fine and dandy. The issue, though, is that the kids, who were potentially unaware of the financial issue, stood in line, got their trays of food, and walked to the register, and that is when the situation devolved into a humiliating and wasteful experience.
(( But cafeteria workers werent able to see which children owed money until they had already received lunches, Olsen explained.
The workers then took those lunches from the students and threw them away, he said, because once food is served to one student it cant be served to another. ))
What possible purpose could be served by squandering that food? This is not a particularly economical solution if the schools concern was unpaid lunch bills. While I completely agree that the childrens accounts needed to be taken care of, the manner in which this was handled was callous, wasteful, and humiliating.
Olson was quick to justify the action.
(( They did take that tray away and gave them fruit and a milk, Olsen said. We dont ever let kids go without any food entirely. ))
read more No Lunch for You: Cafeteria Nazis Take Lunches from Kids, Throw Food in the Trash | The Daily Sheeple
January 30th, 2014
Because nothing says nurturing children like snatching their lunches out of their wee little hands and throwing the food in the garbage can.
Admittedly, recent efforts to start an after-school dinner program in New Jersey met with adamant disapproval, but it seems as though the pendulum in one Utah school just swung way too far in the opposite direction.
At the behest of the district child nutrition manager, staff at Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, began notifying parents whose children had a zero or negative balance on their lunch accounts. This, of course, is understandable and perfectly reasonable.
(( Jason Olsen, a Salt Lake City District spokesman, said the districts child-nutrition department became aware that Uintah had a large number of students who owed money for lunches. ))
As a result, the child-nutrition manager visited the school and decided to withhold lunches to deal with the issue, he said.
Thats all fine and dandy. The issue, though, is that the kids, who were potentially unaware of the financial issue, stood in line, got their trays of food, and walked to the register, and that is when the situation devolved into a humiliating and wasteful experience.
(( But cafeteria workers werent able to see which children owed money until they had already received lunches, Olsen explained.
The workers then took those lunches from the students and threw them away, he said, because once food is served to one student it cant be served to another. ))
What possible purpose could be served by squandering that food? This is not a particularly economical solution if the schools concern was unpaid lunch bills. While I completely agree that the childrens accounts needed to be taken care of, the manner in which this was handled was callous, wasteful, and humiliating.
Olson was quick to justify the action.
(( They did take that tray away and gave them fruit and a milk, Olsen said. We dont ever let kids go without any food entirely. ))
read more No Lunch for You: Cafeteria Nazis Take Lunches from Kids, Throw Food in the Trash | The Daily Sheeple
