Schools Deny Hot Lunches To Students Owing Money
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Updated: 3:23 PM Jan 8, 2009
Schools Deny Hot Lunches To Students Owing Money
Dozens of students at Steamboat Springs schools are getting peanuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- or nothing -- for lunch this week after the district cut off those with unpaid balances on their school lunch accounts.
Posted: 2:56 PM Jan 8, 2009
Reporter: Associated Press
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Forget pizza, hamburgers and macaroni and cheese.

Dozens of students at Steamboat Springs schools are getting peanuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- or nothing -- for lunch this week after the district cut off those with unpaid balances on their school lunch accounts.

Nutritional Services director Max Huppert says students owing $6 or more were not allowed to use the district's automated payment system to buy hot lunches when they returned to school Monday. The move affected about 25 elementary students and an unknown number of middle school students.

The affected elementary school students were given snack food instead, but the others received nothing.

Huppert says about half of the nearly $10,000 owed to the district has since been paid.

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Posted by: Sue Location: Nebraska on Jan 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM

I caught this story on CNN. Come on people, get some perspective. They aren't denied EATING, just the hot lunch. Most kids would PREFER peanut butter and jelly (I know mine would). I do think that if a parent proves they don't have the money, the school/govt should provide, but what they're talking about is parents who are too busy to check their kid's backpacks for the note from the school. Our school even sends email reminders! Parents need to stop blaming everyone else for their irresponsibility, and that includes the schools.
Posted by: Marie Location: greeley on Jan 12, 2009 at 05:56 AM

So children of illegal aliens get free lunches and the others get peanutbutter and jelly?
Posted by: tam Location: springs on Jan 11, 2009 at 06:33 PM

Not shame on the district. Shame on the parents. That is the problem these days Lazy parents and Kids not being taken care of correctly. Every parent can find the time to either give the kids money or make sure its paid.
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