He specifically has local openings in her area, as I understand it.
Depends. Why not?
Are you saying a black kid cannot learn unless they are sitting next to a white kid?
Do you want a system that skims off the top black students and sends them to a majority white school which happened back in the days of desegregation?
Are you against the idea that a group of black parents and educators cannot set up their own school which promotes black education like at Kansas Cities African Centered Academy?
Moreover, you are making them “serve” (clean up after) their peers. Janitors are already low on the respect pole, and surely most of us have heard horror stories about how people are treated in the service industry - hell “nice to you and rude to the waiter” is a very-well-known trope/saying. You are absolutely setting those kids up for increased bullying by putting them in that position.
And if drivers aren’t doing the basic things like signaling their turns and not throwing litter out the windows, I have no problem taking away their privilege to drive.
You probably have no idea how bad highways are at rush hour.
Now the food services company is saying that the fired cafeteria worker hadn’t charged the student in 3 months. Not for his lunches, not for extras.
He went through the line, she put more items on his tray (besides the extras and the lunch he had), then didn’t charge him anything. Like I said before - giving a friend’s kid free merchandise.
StG
My dad was still working the cash register even in his first job as a civilian engineer. He was still getting out and pumping his own gas even when he was a professor. I think service jobs become low-class to the extent that we confine them to low-class people.
From Ellison’s Invisible Man:
~Max
I never encountered this personally, but I heard more than one story about a pharmacist who refused to touch the cash register because “I did not go to college for 6 years to do this.” They usually didn’t last very long at those jobs, often for other reasons, like treating Medicaid patients poorly.
The article also says that the cafeteria worker tried to cover up the theft through a Facebook message to the student.
The reason the lunch was $8 was that in addition to the standard lunch, the student also had a la carte items on his tray: fries, 2 packages of cookies, and a Powerade.
How long until we find out the lunch lady and the student were having an illicit affair?
Apparently there was more to this story than originally known.
Lunch Shaming is still a problem. I see news articles every month about a new incident. Some states have passed laws to address the practice.
CNN recently published a comprehensive article.
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Someone put the wrong dates on paperwork, mistakenly terminating a kid’s eligibility period in the program.
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Someone entered the wrong data in the system, so a kid’s eligibility was terminated at the wrong time.
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Someone or something screwed up the database, wreaking havoc on a whole lot of kids’ eligibilities.
7, 8, 9…999) other non-nefarious administrative problems occurred which were not the fault of the kids, their parental units, the cafeteria staff, et al.
This isn’t to suggest the problem should be dismissed. Quite the contrary, the problem should be analyzed so the root cause can be discovered and rectified. However, those of us who are compassionate (yeah, bleeding-heart types) would rather keep the kids learning in classes than toss them out with the used water under the chafing dishes.
–G!
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
[COLOR=“White”]…–Hanlon’s Razor[/COLOR]
I encounter it personally every single working day.
I work at a very large law firm, one of the biggest in the country. I’m not a lawyer, I’m an IT guy.
The firm hires lots and lots of lawyers right out of law school. From the top-ranked law schools.
Recent grads (first and second year lawyers) are notorious for refusing to do anything that they consider beneath them, and being obnoxious to support staff. It’s especially true (and I’m far from the only person to observe this) of Harvard Law grads and NYU Law grads. Other schools are a bit better.
Usually they get over it in a year or two – being a first-year at a big firm is such a miserable existence that they’re pretty much crushed into submission.
Oddly, paralegals seem to persist in this behavior much longer. But there aren’t as many of them.
My local school district made this change recently. Something like 85% of the kids were already on free/reduced price lunch, so it’s not as though huge numbers of kids were suddenly joining the rolls, raising the expenditures by megadollars. The change makes perfect sense as far as I’m concerned, and I know it’s been well received by teachers.
EXCUSE ME, but when I was in high school, my best friend and her siblings got free lunchs, and they certainly were not “idiot ones who schools were better off without having”. Being poor doesn’t make a person an idiot or a troublemaker.
I completely agree with you, but I don’t think that was what urbanredneck was saying. The original line: “The ones ONLY coming for a free lunch…” (my emphasis).
Pretty sure the idea is that if kids come to school for the sole purpose of getting a free lunch, then they’re troublemakers–not that kids who get free lunch aren’t serious students.
I’ve only seen those signs in McDonald’s in areas where vagrancy is a problem. Typically areas like downtown were the homeless tend to congregate. When I was in high school we had 55 minutes for lunch which was just the standard length of a class. It didn’t take me that long to eat of course but it was nice having time to relax, socialize, and maybe even work on my homework. I can’t help but think that the break meant I was better prepared for my afternoon classes.