Student's breakfast trashed for 30-cent shortage

[The Straight Story]

DICKINSON, TX (KTRK) -- A 12-year-old Dickinson student's breakfast was tossed in the trash, because his account was short by just 30 cents. His mother is upset, so we went to the school district to ask questions about their policy -- one they say they stand by.

Jennifer Castilleja had to make an extra trip to her son's middle school in Dickinson Wednesday morning.

She said, "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."

Her son, a sixth grader at Barber Middle School in Dickinson ISD is on reduced meals. He pays for his meals from an account that his mother deposits money into, but it was empty.

"I said, 'Well, I'm on my way, I'll pay for it,'" Castilleja recalled. "And she said no, I would have to bring some money before he could have breakfast."

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9316051

[liberal N proud]

1. And how much did the food cost that they threw away?

You can't fix stupid!

[cloudbase]

3. There is likely some health department regulation

that once the food is plated, it can't be given to another person.

[sharp_stick]

5. Possibly true

but any sane person would have given it to the kid.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. or cruel nt

[MineralMan]

2. Texas - It's Like a Whole Other Country!

(Slogan from Texas Bureau of Tourism ad.)

[giftedgirl77]

4. and to think my son's school allowed him

to run up a $70 tab after they were explicitly told that he wasn't allowed to charge. My son is lazy, my boys are human garbage disposals but my youngest doesn't want to make his lunch. He has a history of charging. At the beginning of the year I told the teacher that unless he had $$ in hand he wasn't to buy. A month or so later I got a bill. I was pissed, where was the call at say $5 or even $10 but $70. So they said you have to send a note.

I put a picture of my son with a giant no symbol over his face with they language "this child Treshaun last is NOT allowed to buy hot lunch. I told them to hang it on the wall. He would have been proud. Somehow he still charged $6 I refused to pay it.

But yet Texas refused a kid food that shit should be illegal.

[whttevrr]

7. How many school breakfasts could we buy for the price of one fighter jet?

Or even one tank?





Edited out the typo.

[gopiscrap]

8. Exactly!!!

[Chan790]

10. Doing the math...

Cost of one F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet: $112M¹
Cost of one M1A2 Abrams Tank: $4.3M²
Cost of one discounted school breakfast in TX: $0.30³

So 1 F-35 costs 373,333,333 breakfasts with $0.10 change and one M1A2 costs 14,333,333 breakfasts with $0.10 change.

1: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/10/02/204042/pentagon-report-rips-texas-f-35.html
2: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm
3: per the article in the OP

[whttevrr]

11. I remember reading about a tank scrapyard in... Nevada?

There were some articles not too long ago about the Pentagon not wanting any more tanks but congress ordering them any way. Anybody look at the amount of active and ready to go tanks that we have available right now?

The numbers are staggering... who exactly are we arming against?

[geek tragedy]

9. Cruelty to poor people is the #1 Texas pasttime, narrowly edging out

discharging firearms and attaching padlocks to women's uteruses.