Lovely schools...

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   So I'm babysitting my nieces and nephew so my sister can go out tonight. My sister is a single nurse whose husband walked out on her for an 18 year old six years ago, and alot of time she barely makes it by financially. So the kids all come home with pink slips from the cafeteria saying the owe 5 dollars.

I asked them  if they've been getting lunch money, they said yes, but that they were past due so the lunch lady takes their money but gives them peanut butter for lunch. 

Now, this is my problem. In a politically correct gone mad school system, we have children (whose mother makes "too much" at 45K a year to qualify for reduced lunches) who are still being ridiculed and made examples of instead of dealing with the parents.

It has to be humiliating for a child to have to take peanut butter or dry cereal (yes, the school won't give them milk if they don't bring lunch money) in front of his or her friends, telling the whole world their mother didn't give them their lunch money.

Now I understand that the school can't pay for every kid who didn't bring their lunch money, but we're talking kids who have brought their money every day, but for whatever reason their mother either forgot to give them the money or whatever.

I dunno, for some reason, this really pissed me off. And apparently it's a growing problem-I talked to several of my nephews friends who apparently have parents who are pretty well off (one of whom is my neighbor), and they're all faking their way into reduced lunches because of the schools ridiculous collection policies.

/rant