re: Elementary school takes lunches away from students owing account balances

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Not to thread hijack, but is anyone else absolutely sick of the word "bullying" being used in our schools every three minutes?

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Absolutely. The term "bullying" has completely lost all meaning. It has morphed into a overreaching term to describe basically any act which a child doesn't like. As you stated in your post, failing to share a snack is now "bullying." Per usual, the Prog./lack of self-accountability crowd thinks the way to stop bullying is through legislation.

Back to the OP, I'm sure throwing these kids lunches away was not the first step in trying to get the delinqunet accounts paid. The water company doesn't shut off your water immediately upon your failure to pay the bill. You get multiple notices before they do so. While it seems unnecessary that the school should have to waste the food, I've got ZERO problem with the school not allowing the children to "purchase" lunch with a negative balance. If it embarrasses them then so be it. One would think it would embarrass their dead beat parents more, but judging from the responses thats not the case. What lesson is being taught to these kids if they are allowed to eat just the same as those whose parents do WHAT YOUR'RE SUPPOSED TO DO and pay the bill timely? One would think the kids would go home and say "Mom, Dad, I would really like to eat more than just an orange for lunch, can you please pay the bill?" An one would also think that as a parent you would be so humiliated that your child had to ask you to to this that you would immediately pay the balance and take whatever steps necessary to ensure that this did not happen again.