Okay, extortion is too strong a word. Perhaps, "unnecessarily extracted" from students. And to pay for what exactly?
It used to be that if lunch money was being taken from little kids, it was by the school bully. Now, it is being taken from them by the leadership of the APS.
It is like an ATM; parents put money in online, and students can eat lunch without having to remember to take lunch money to school.
Parents are surcharged every time they add money to the account.
If a parent could only afford to refill the account every two weeks, the surcharge would amount to a 10% surcharge. If their budget is so strained as to only allow weekly refills, the surcharge amounts to 20%. If the family is poor enough to qualify for reduce fee lunches; the surcharge percentage can double; the high cost of being poor.
But, according to the Journal editorial (sub req); "myLunchMoney says on its site that the service is free— though individual districts may institute transaction fees."
APS has instituted a transaction fee. The editors would like to know, why?
So would a number of lower income parents, I would suspect.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Students' Lunch Money Extorted
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This has always been a particulary disturbing problem to me... the whole system of the school lunch in APS. If poor kids want to eat, they must go to the cafeteria, and the cafeteria only. Food carts, pizza, burgers are all for those that can pay only. And the meals in the cafeteria are so meager. A skinny kid barely gets enough...what about "big" kids that are poor?
A spoonful of spafhetti and a small bowel of unudentified fruit is a slap in the face for poor kids! And if they don;t get there early enough, the lines sometimes clase down mid-way in lunch because they are "out of food". What a shame in the USA! As if poor kids aren't beat down enough...now they are hungry in school too!
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