Texas school tosses 6th grader’s breakfast in trash after he can’t pay 30 cents

[Ralph Wiggum]

And somehow this is the fault of the Republicans and the "southern" or "Texas" mentality.

Playinghardball (6,561 posts)

Texas school tosses 6th grader’s breakfast in trash after he can’t pay 30 cents


Texas school is standing by its policy after cafeteria workers threw a sixth grader’s breakfast in the trash when they realized his account was short 30 cents.

Jennifer Castilleja told KTRK that she offered to come to the school Wednesday morning and pay for the breakfast but Barber Middle School in Dickinson ISD refused to feed her 12-year-old unless it got the money first. As a part of the reduced meal program, Castilleja’s son pays only 30 cents for each breakfast, but his account had run out of money.

“My son called me and asked me if I could bring him some money because they took his breakfast from him and he needed money for breakfast,” she recalled.

“I said, ‘Well, I’m on my way, I’ll pay for it,’” Castilleja told the school. “And she said no, I would have to bring some money before he could have breakfast.”

“There were kids all around him. I think he may have been a little embarrassed and upset and, of course, hungry.”

Dickinson ISD explained to KTRK that Castilleja should have known her son’s account was running low.

“Dickinson ISD’s procedure is tlhat we do not allow student charges for breakfast,” the district said in a statement. “Many school districts follow this same procedure. Students get verbal warnings to let parents know once the account starts getting low. Written warnings are sent home to parents before money runs out.”

But Castilleja felt like there was more the school could have done.

“Telling the child, we are going to feed you, but go to the office and call your parent and let them know that you need money,” she said. “Anything than sending them to class hungry.”

Watch this video from KTVT, broadcast Nov. 6, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/07/texas-school-tosses-6th-graders-breakfast-in-trash-after-he-cant-pay-30-cents/

RandiFan1290 (2,202 posts)
4. Texas. nt

leftynyc (11,339 posts)
5. ****ing Texas

Every single day there's a story about how ****ed up that state is.

Yeah, and New York City is freaking Valhalla. 

Berlum (5,335 posts)
11. Republicon "Family Values" strike again.

phantom power (23,186 posts)
12. everything's a morality play with conservatives, and not the generous kind of morality

It's the pinched, calvinistic kind of morality.

Beacool (20,802 posts)
23. Ahhhhh, Texas.........

Why am not surprised? Home to Bush, Cruz, Gohmert and other a-holes of the same ilk.

[Freeper]

Didn't this also happen in a leftist state about a year or two ago?

[Karin]

I thought it was Massachusetts, Freep.

[JohnnyReb]

My mother got up at 5:30 to fix breakfast so I could be fed after doing my morning chores and meet the school bus at 7:00......so get your ass up and feed your own.

[Bad Dog]

My mother got up at 5:30 to fix breakfast so I could be fed after doing my morning chores and meet the school bus at 7:00......so get your ass up and feed your own.

Beat me to it.  Somehow she found time to make my lunch too.

[Freeper]

My mother got up at 5:30 to fix breakfast so I could be fed after doing my morning chores and meet the school bus at 7:00......so get your ass up and feed your own.

Getting breakfast at school was a rare treat when I was a kid.

[Freeper]

I thought it was Massachusetts, Freep.

Sounds right.

[thundley4]

Getting breakfast at school was a rare treat when I was a kid.

We got a little carton of milk for a mid morning break, never breakfast and that was only in grade school.

Even though this was Texas, like most states the education system is still mostly controlled by liberals.

[diesel driver]

Typical leftist mother.

WTF is wrong with HER, that SHE didn't keep closer tabs on her son's lunch account.

Try this, moron.

Put a little EXTRA into his account every week/month.

What's worse is his "friends" didn't have a few dimes between/among them to chip in for his breakfast.

[Karin]

I remember it was MA.  Rush talked about it and said "Not a single republican in sight." 

[GOP Congress]

Sounds like Wendy Davis got to this school and took the food away. Didn't she fili-bluster over something like this?

[lastparker]

I'll bet they called her on her cell phone that she can pay for, and she offered to come right over in her car that she can put gas in, because she was probably at home, not at a job, where offering to "come right over" would be difficult at best.

[Tess Anderson]

Check out the mother in the video:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/11/07/school-trashes-boys-meal-over-30-cents/

she probably ate all the food.

[claret1995]

Didn't this also happen in a leftist state about a year or two ago?

I don't think where it happened makes a rats ass difference. Are not most or all of these school employees  "UNION" .wWhich in turn makes most or even all liberal democrats,which in turn says that they should pay ,OUT OF POCKET, for the child that has no money. Are they not the compassionate people???

[JohnnyReb]

Check out the mother in the video:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/11/07/school-trashes-boys-meal-over-30-cents/

she probably ate all the food.

She ain't missed any meals....bet the kid is fat too.

[Thor]

I don't think where it happened makes a rats ass difference. Are not most or all of these school employees  "UNION" .wWhich in turn makes most or even all liberal democrats,which in turn says that they should pay ,OUT OF POCKET, for the child that has no money. Are they not the compassionate people???

I have a neighbor across the street who is very Conservative. If she's Union, she doesn't admit it. She's also a cook at one of the local elementary schools.

[Dori]

Even though this was Texas, like most states the education system is still mostly controlled by liberals.

It's in Galveston County.  Is that a liberal area?

[weaponeer]

Getting breakfast at school was a rare treat when I was a kid.

I've never even heard of the concept of getting breakfast at school.  WTF is wrong with the damn parent fixing breakfast for her kid?  I guess it's too hard for poor people?

[Chris_]

I had breakfast at home and never bought lunch from the school until I was in high school. Before then, lunch from home was a lot better... usually something left over from dinner the night before with a piece of fruit, some vegetables, chips, or a hard-boiled egg, and homemade cookies.

Yeah, my mom made an awesome lunch. 

[Delmar]

I've never even heard of the concept of getting breakfast at school.  WTF is wrong with the damn parent fixing breakfast for her kid?  I guess it's too hard for poor people?

So the kids get both breakfast and lunch at school--provided they have the cash?  What about supper?  It would make for a lot less dirty dishes at home.

[Purple Sage]

It's in Galveston County.  Is that a liberal area?

It WAS a Conservative area, but I have been told by relatives that live in the area that it is no longer due to Katrina.

[Bad Dog]

It WAS a Conservative area, but I have been told by relatives that live in the area that it is no longer due to Katrina.

I'll second that.  It's no Austin but it's a lot more Houston than it used to be.

[Celtic Rose]

So, she has time to drive to school to bring money, but no time to scramble a couple eggs and put a piece of bread in the toaster to make him breakfast before school. 

[Bad Dog]

So, she has time to drive to school to bring money, but no time to scramble a couple eggs and put a piece of bread in the toaster to make him breakfast before school. 

Probably used her EBT money for crack meth.

[Purple Sage]

I started to suggest she homeschool to avoid such garbage, but from some of the comments posted, I'm guessing she doesn't have the skills.  If that's the case, I agree with the rest.  Since the child wasn't on free lunch, I assume the woman is working and some kind of career or at least somebody in the household must hold down a job.  If she can't get up earlier and fix the child his breakfast and pack his lunch, have the decency to look in his backpack that he brings home everyday to see his work and the notes.  Pay the darned account on time to ensure it doesn't happen again!

With that said, it was pretty darned nasty of the cafeteria worker to throw away the food rather than give it to the child.  My grandmother was a school cafeteria worker, bless her soul.  She would have never let a child go hungry.  America ain't what she used to be.