Texas School Throws Child’s Breakfast In The Garbage To Bully Him Out Of 30

[Incitatus]

A quarter and a nickel. Three dimes. Six nickels. Thirty pennies. All equal 30 cents. This is the pocket change that a school punished a six grade boy for not having by taking away his breakfast and trashing it. Sound heartless? That’s because it is.

Barber Middle School threw a boy’s breakfast in the trash because he didn’t have 30 cents to pay for it.
A 12-year-old boy was forced to sit in embarrassment at the breakfast table at Barber Middle School in Dickinson ISD when cafeteria workers took his food away and threw it in the garbage. Why? Because the boy’s account was short a measly 30 cents. As a result, the hungry child didn’t get to start the day with a meal in his belly.


more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/08/texas-school-breakfast-garbage/

[Glassunion]

1. What the f...?

Really? This cannot be a money thing. If they can afford to toss it in the garbage, they can afford to let the kid eat it for one lousy day while they get the account straight.

We can spend 11thousantribrizillion dollars waging a new war every 10 minutes or so, we can buy a fucking breakfast.

[defacto7]

2. Hear hear!

[struggle4progress]

3. It's ordinary conservative thinking in action

"If we let this kid eat breakfast without paying $0.30, our great American civilization will collapse"