Sentences with phrase «lunch debts in»

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I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

In St. Paul, unlike other school districts, the debt students who can't afford to pay for their lunch accrues is the responsibility of the district, not the students.

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In the last two weeks, both this blog and the national media have featured a rash of stories about children having their lunches taken away by cafeteria employees due to unpaid lunch balances, and I also told you about a generous Houston school tutor / mentor who recently paid $ 465 of his own money to clear the debt of over 60 students.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

Yesterday, many media outlets reported on a bill introduced in Congress which, if enacted, would allegedly ban «lunch shaming,» i.e., practices in the cafeteria that single out children with meal debt.

While impoverished families and those inside the school food world have known about lunch shaming for decades, the intense viral reaction to those two Times stories made clear that most Americans had no idea that kids with meal debt are stigmatized every day in school cafeterias around the country.

And this year, because of all the interest in «lunch shaming,» I wanted to mention a particular charity that helps out kids with school meal debt — School Lunch Flunch shaming,» I wanted to mention a particular charity that helps out kids with school meal debt — School Lunch FLunch Fairy.

Cheese sandwiches and other «alternate meals» have been added to menus in school districts across the country as they try to deal with lunch debts.

Huge data sets were shared with IDEO staff for their project, but even members of the SF Board of Education have no access to files showing how many students at each school have not yet returned a meal application, or how many ate school lunch in October, or how much cafeteria debt each school is accumulating.

This results in the realization that as soon as external conditions turn unfavorable — i.e. when the free lunch of automatic growth and undiscovered deception is over — the likelyhood of almost any level of debt to be repaid is low.

[S] ome GOP lawmakers were exploring whether the political stalemate over funding the government could best be resolved by crafting a broader fiscal package that would include an increase in the debt ceiling... The speaker expressed optimism at the lunch that he might be able to combine the two issues to embark on broader budget negotiations with the White House and Senate Democrats.»

Nearly one in five (19 per cent) said they had been in arrears or debt to their child's school for payments for things such as lunches or activities, with over a third (36 per cent) saying that the situation was not dealt with sensitively by the school.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Ford discusses her personal experience with school lunch debt and how her one tweet inspired a movement.

Yet, now, over $ 150,000 has been donated nationwide by hundreds of people in order to wipe out the lunch debt of strangers.

Prohibiting lunch shaming in PA law ensures that school employees will end this extraordinarily cruel practice of humiliating students because they have unpaid lunch debts.

Student enrichment: The Wellington Rotary Club donates $ 20,000 to cover the lunch debts of 10,000 students in the Palm Beach County School District.

In a survey by the association, districts reported median lunch debt of a few thousand dollars — but some were far higher, as much as $ 4.7 million.

You might be surprised that small changes in your daily habits (like packing your lunch) can save loads of money for debt repayment.

Mitchell details the debt he went into using those services, and the sacrifices he had to make to climb out (cancelling cable, trading in his cell phone for a prepaid plan, working a temporary night job, eating $ 1 frozen meals for lunch and dinner, etc...).

Hopefully you'll learn a bit more than the usual «take your lunch to work with you» or «pay off your debt first» advice churned out in other articles.