Utah School Threw Out Students’ Lunches Because They Were In Debt

Their hands scanned? What were they scanning?

This is criminal...they should all be fired and be replaced
immediately

Talk about butthurt. Maybe the kids went home and had a frank talk with Mom and Dad about why they could afford beer, smokes and the flat screen but not subsidized school lunches.

I bet they learned a lot more about what it feels like to be humiliated.

That school needs the kids more than the kids need that school... transfer them to a nearby elementary... losing the federal funds for 40 kids will put that school under... show them who controls.

I am a high school teacher and it is hard. I do well by my students, but feel like I really want to give up. I hate the Common Core junk that is pushed on us continually. Right now, I still teach Orwell, Dickens, and the good stuff, bot those days are probably going away.
Teachers are held suspect for so much that they have no control over.

I am local and have been following this and I just wanted to update this for you. Heads are starting to roll for this :)

"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah school cafeteria manager and a district supervisor have been placed on paid leave while officials investigate why lunches were taken from students who owed money on food accounts, a district spokesman said Friday.

Salt Lake City School District spokesman Jason Olsen said he could not identify or offer further details on the workers because of personnel privacy issues.

About 32 elementary school students had their lunches seized and thrown away on Tuesday after a district official arrived at Uintah (Yoo-IN-tah) Elementary to investigate a large number of overdue lunch accounts, Olsen has said.

The district has apologized to outraged parents and said it was working to ensure a similar incident didn't happen again.

Olsen has said students whose $2 meals were thrown out were given milk and fruit, a standard practice when students don't have lunch money.

"This was a mistake," Olsen said. "There shouldn't have been food taken away from these students once they went through that line."

The school is located in a middle-class neighborhood, and the district qualifies for federal reimbursement on lunches when students select certain offerings that are within nutritional guidelines.

Olsen said officials started notifying parents on Monday that many children were behind on the lunch payments.

The district was still investigating which workers decided to seize lunches the next day and how many were taking the meals from students."

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The "nutrition" managers - are they psychopaths?

Are they getting their training from Mrs. Trunchbull in the book, Matilda?

Double waste - Yanking food that didn't have to thrown out since it was already "in use", trashing it and then giving extra food, but only a snack.

Triple trauma - finding out your parents didn't pay your account. Having your plate of food yanked, thrown out. Given a snack as a scarlet letter and told "we never let anyone go hungry."

Pasteurized chalk water (I worked at a school) + fruit = UGHHH! Those kids were probably so blood sugary when they got home...

Good!

This is now the top story on CNN.

Heads are going to roll big time, holy shit.

I'm glad to see that and I hope people are held accountable.

You just don't hurt kids like this, or anyone. But you dont. hurt. kids.

What happened is about the kind of world we're becoming. I just can't get over the fact that not one of those people, not one, said no. No one said this is wrong. No one asked questions. They just did what they were told. I honestly would have thought that at least one person would have refused, or stood up and said something. Wouldn't you? There's no way I would have gone along with this. What kind of people are in this world that not one person stood up for those kids and refused to throw their lunch out?