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Detention for Sharing Lunch

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:36 am
by Fuzzy Necromancer
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... /15950629/

To clarify/give context, the "cheese sandwich" is a common thing in american lunchrooms when a kid comes up short for lunch money, or their parents haven't paid up the account. They take the full meal prepared for them, throw it out in front of them, and give them a slice of cheese between two pieces of bread instead.
No good deed goes unpunished.

Re: Detention for Sharing Lunch

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:31 pm
by Admiral X
safety and liability
Yeah, there's government regulation in action right there. Zero tolerance means zero thought and zero conscience. And what you're talking about with throwing out a perfectly good lunch parents have made for their kids, that's government regulation in action there, too. It's the Nanny State in action, because there's regulations that spell out for the school what the kids need to have for their lunches, and either the lunch from home doesn't cut it in the school's eyes, or they're just going to play it safe and demand what the kids only get what the school is serving.

Re: Detention for Sharing Lunch

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:29 pm
by Madner Kami
That isn't regulations, that's the entire society being afraid of getting sued out of their entire livelyhood.

Re: Detention for Sharing Lunch

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 7:54 pm
by LittleRaven
In a world where we're surrounded by children that can die if exposed to peanut dust, I'm not sure what you want school administrators to do. You simply cannot have children sharing food in that environment. Someone WILL get sued.

Re: Detention for Sharing Lunch

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 2:02 am
by PerrySimm
For a burrito jailing to to qualify as News, at the most it should have happened since this time last year. The article is over three years old.