Late Stage Capitalism

Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr.

The district says that it is trying to collect more than $20,000, and that other methods to get parents to pay have not been successful. Four parents owe at least $450 apiece. The letter claims the unpaid bills could lead to dependency hearings and removal of their children for not providing them with food. "You can be sent to dependency court for neglecting your child's right to food. The result may be your child being taken from your home and placed in foster care," the letter read. After complaints, district officials announced they plan to send out a less threatening letter next week. Luzerne County's manager and child welfare agency director have written the superintendent, insisting the district stop making what they call false claims. Their letter calls the district's actions troubling and a misrepresentation of how the Children and Youth Services Department and its foster care program operate. Wyoming Valley West's lawyer, Charles Coslett, said he did not consider the letters to be threatening. "Hopefully, that gets their attention and it certainly did, didn't it? I mean, if you think about it, you're here this morning because some parents cried foul because he or she doesn't want to pay a debt attributed to feeding their kids. How shameful," Coslett told WYOU-TV.

What a lovely person this Charles Coslett, attorney at law, is!

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/kids-could-end-foster-care-over-lunch-debt-school-district-warns-parents-2019-jul/530-1952542e-0f2c-4b3a-b6f0-a32de5dbce58

Enforcing this will cost more than just feeding the kids would.

Didn't pay your Minch money? Then the state will now spend thousands over thousands of dollars to ruin your child's life!

whY wOn'T pOEpLe hAvE MoRE kIdS??

Is there any other country where "lunch debt" is even a thing?

I cannot explain how, but I feel that this is just another start of great scheme on how to make Epstein's island 2.0.

Why do we even have this orphan-crushing machine?

So instead of free lunch we will take and house your kids and feed them and deprive them of family. Which will cost 100x more and is 10000x more evil than making kids pay for lunch

Something you'd hear Americans say it happens in communist countries

So that whole "greatest country in the world" thing was just propaganda?

Well shit.

Meahwhile, Some counties in Maryland have made school lunches free for all kids.

i swear this pic is a decade old

And if it's like my kid's school they just let them charge as much cake as they want to eat to their school account. If you tell them not to allow that they'll tell you that they can't not give children food. Motherfuckers also got a slushy machine.

I feel like pointing out a 6 year old edge case, where the school was rightly screeched at by just about everyone saying this is insane, followed up by an immediate apology, and funding to provide food to everyone is both a poor example of propaganda as well as a pretty decent case for safety kicking in at some point.

Sounds like the school was pretty poor and just made a bad decision to try and get more parents to pay. 

I'm seeing an opportunity for some rich schmuck to do some reputation-repair.

I'm going to go way out on a limb and assume that placing children in foster care would cost the state more than just paying for their goddamn school lunches.

I have a suggestion: let corporations adopt children.

School district going after parents is dumb, they should be asking all of the parents to attend school board and City council meetings or whichever governing body controls school funding from taxes with them to find out why school lunch isn't provided for all kids that need it