{"id":187291,"date":"2014-10-09T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/09\/zootedrapscallion-shodobear-jepaithe\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:28:08","slug":"zootedrapscallion-shodobear-jepaithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/09\/zootedrapscallion-shodobear-jepaithe\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-187291 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/09\/zootedrapscallion-shodobear-jepaithe\/attachment\/187292\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_nc5iaxOGMo1qk91wgo1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_nc5iaxOGMo1qk91wgo1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_nc5iaxOGMo1qk91wgo1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/zootedrapscallion.tumblr.com\/post\/99493953419\/shodobear-jepaithe-transposedsouls\" target=\"_blank\">zootedrapscallion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shodobear.tumblr.com\/post\/99483005689\/jepaithe-transposedsouls-boo-author\" target=\"_blank\">shodobear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jepaithe.tumblr.com\/post\/99293207947\/transposedsouls-boo-author\" target=\"_blank\">jepaithe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/transposedsouls.tumblr.com\/post\/99190508273\/boo-author-bitterseafigtree-thinksquad-an\" target=\"_blank\">transposedsouls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/boo-author.tumblr.com\/post\/99146252640\/bitterseafigtree-thinksquad-an-eighth-grade\" target=\"_blank\">boo-author<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bitterseafigtree.tumblr.com\/post\/98230275529\/thinksquad-an-eighth-grade-student-from\" target=\"_blank\">bitterseafigtree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thinksquad.tumblr.com\/post\/97888500419\/an-eighth-grade-student-from-weaverville\" target=\"_blank\">thinksquad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn\u2019t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford didn\u2019t see any problem with sharing his food.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It seemed like he couldn\u2019t get a normal lunch so I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn\u2019t really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn\u2019t eat it,&rdquo; said Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>But the Trinity Alps Unified School District has regulations that prohibit students from sharing their meals.<\/p>\n<p>The policies set by the district say that students can have allergies that another student may not be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Barnett, the Superintendent of the Trinity Alps Unified School District says that hygiene issues also come into play when banning students from sharing meals.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a policy that prohibits students from exchanging meals. Of course if students are concerned about other students not having enough to eat we would definitely want to consider that, but because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals,&rdquo; said Barnett.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford\u2019s mother Sandy Bradford thinks that her son did the right thing by sharing his lunch. She also believes that it isn\u2019t up to the school to discipline her son for good manners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all means the school can teach them math and the arithmetic and physical education, but when it comes to morals and manners and compassion, I believe it needs to start at home with the parent,\u201d Sandy said.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford says that he would definitely share his lunch again if a friend wanted a portion of his meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/student-put-in-detention-for-sharing-school-lunch\/28115110\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/student-put-in-detention-for-sharing-school-lunch\/28115110<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kids can\u2019t share now? Or trade lunches? What the actual fuck is happening?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this article is talking around what the actual issue is.<\/p>\n<p>The student who was \u201cgiven a cheese sandwich\u201d and \u201ccouldn\u2019t get a normal lunch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how schools handle students whose families can\u2019t pay their lunch bills. They\u2019re required to give the kid something, so they get a slice of processed cheese between two pieces of white bread. Cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>All those stories about the kids who went through the lines and then had their trays taken away and dumped in the trash in front of them because their account was $5 in the red when they got to the end of the line?<\/p>\n<p>Those kids were given cheese sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about allergies. I guarantee you that kids at those tables are swapping food all the time. It\u2019s part of the school cafeteria experience.<\/p>\n<p>If the second kid was allergic to the burrito, we\u2019d be reading a different story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because this kid undermined the system that is supposed to punish students for their parents\u2019 \u201cnegligence\u201d (poverty).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^ this<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/truthstreammedia.com\/cant-pay-for-school-lunch-kids-have-fun-starving-while-the-school-throws-your-food-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These aren\u2019t isolated cases, either. Here\u2019s a recap of the most recent honor roll of American public school cafeteria douchebaggery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An elementary school in Salt Lake City,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/31\/us\/utah-school-takes-lunches-from-students-in-debt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a>\u00a0reportedly seized between 40 and 50 students\u2019 lunches\u00a0<em>on pizza day<\/em>\u00a0and threw them all in the garbage when the kids got up to the register and couldn\u2019t pay because their account balances were either low or empty. Students all over the cafeteria were broken down in tears. I\u2019m sure that made for a great learning environment.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the most important meal of the day? A 12-year-old Dickinson, Texas boy\u2019s breakfast was thrown in the trash right in front of him at his middle school because his account was short a whopping\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=9316051\" target=\"_blank\">.30 cents<\/a>. The breakfast itself cost $1.25.<\/li>\n<li>Around 25 students at a Massachusetts middle school were forced to throw out their lunches or refused lunch entirely because their accounts were empty or they could not afford to pay. An employee from the school\u2019s on-site lunch provider reportedly gave an order not to provide lunch to students with overextended credit or empty accounts. At least that employee was later put on leave. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/news\/local_news\/lunch-denied-to-some-attleboro-students\/article_1baa66c8-9c85-11e2-a9a0-0019bb2963f4.html\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m pissed<\/a>\u00a0that when there are people in prison who are getting meals, my daughter, an honor student, is going hungry,\u201d one father remarked.<\/li>\n<li>A New Jersey elementary school threw a 10-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/02\/02\/new-jersey-school-throws-away-lunch-10-year-old-autistic-boy-mother-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">autistic boy\u2019s lunch<\/a>\u00a0in the trash because of an unpaid account\u2026despite having already done so\u00a0<em>before<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s between the parents and the cafeteria. It\u2019s not between the child and the lunch lady. Let the kids eat their lunch,\u201d the boy\u2019s mother told a local news station.<\/li>\n<li>The middle and high schools in Old Town, Maine have a \u201cno pay, no food policy\u201d that Superintendent David Walker says students, like the 11-year-old denied food because his mom hadn\u2019t paid his account, should be able to understand. \u201cStudents are old enough to take responsibility for their lunches\u201d by middle school age,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2013\/06\/05\/news\/bangor\/old-town-middle-school-student-denied-lunch-because-parent-owed-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">said Walker<\/a>. You know, because apparently 11-year-olds can suddenly get jobs in this country to afford their lunch at school.<\/li>\n<li>Over 40 elementary school students in Kentucky were denied a full lunch\u00a0<em>during state testing week<\/em>. One student\u2019s account\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/kenton-county-students-denied-regular-school-lunch-during-state-testing\" target=\"_blank\">was short $1.15<\/a>, which the mother told a news station she paid online as many schools require the night before, but the funds hadn\u2019t been processed by lunch time the next day, so her fourth grader spent all day upset and left school crying at the end of the day. Luckily a good samaritan showed up to that school and donated $56 to pay up all student lunch accounts so no more kids would have to go without a full lunch (which isn\u2019t even that large to begin with in this country) during state tests.<\/li>\n<li>Worse, apparently students at some schools across the state of Minnesota are actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/244819041.html\" target=\"_blank\">branded with \u201cMoney\u201d or \u201cLunch\u201d\u00a0<\/a>stamps across their hands when they are late on accounts as a message to parents to pay up. Yep,\u00a0<em>they are actually branding children with the scarlet letter of poverty<\/em>\u00a0if they cannot afford their lunch, so the child will have to walk around school for the whole entire rest of their day branded and a walking target for ridicule by other children because they are poor or the parents forgot to put money in their children\u2019s accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve personally had the same type of situation happened to me before in which lunch has been thrown right in the trash in front of me when I didn\u2019t have enough money for lunch, and was given an alternate meal of lesser quality. I hadn\u2019t even realized how disgustingly perverse that was at the time because of how it was normalized. Shaming the poor, and even depriving children of food has become normalized. This is especially a problem in conservative states where funding for education is low and funding for things like football stadiums and other less important things is high. Public schools need to be providing students with free meals, which can\u2019t be done without the proper funding as well as the proper allocation of funds on the part of schools and school districts.\u00a0<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All that wasted food. This is cruel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"post_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/america%27s-ideal-of-%27you-can%27t-have-something-you-need-that-there%27s-plenty-of-unless-you%27ve-~earned-it~%27-is-so-twisted\" target=\"_blank\">#america\u2019s ideal of \u2018you can\u2019t have something you need that there\u2019s plenty of unless you\u2019ve ~earned it~\u2019 is so twisted<\/a><a class=\"post_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/i-stg\" target=\"_blank\">#i stg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zootedrapscallion: shodobear: jepaithe: transposedsouls: boo-author: bitterseafigtree: thinksquad: An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday. Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn\u2019t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria. Bradford didn\u2019t see any problem with sharing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/09\/zootedrapscallion-shodobear-jepaithe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,20207,5217,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187293,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187291\/revisions\/187293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}