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#12711
Jun 15 2017 11:39am
Quote (balrog66 @ Jun 15 2017 12:19pm)
This school is showing despicable behaviour imo. If there is a problem with payment, talk with the parents first. And most of all, don't punish children for things that they cannot even influence. The fact that that is even a punishment boggles the mind. But alas, 70 quid is more important than the wellbeing of a child.


feel free to open up your check book
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Jun 15 2017 11:47am
Quote (duffman316 @ 15 Jun 2017 13:39)
feel free to open up your check book

bhahaah like that will happen. thats what people like AspenSniper are for, to pay the fair share of many!
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Jun 15 2017 11:56am
Quote (excellence @ Jun 15 2017 12:47pm)
bhahaah like that will happen. thats what people like AspenSniper are for, to pay the fair share of many!


It's not stealing it's taking back.
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Jun 15 2017 02:05pm
Quote (IceMage @ 15 Jun 2017 13:56)
It's not stealing it's taking back.

correct, taking back what they should have earned in the first place but people like AspenSniper physically and mentally prevented them from doing so. if we raise taxes even higher, and make him pay for the fair share of many more, he will have to work harder and we will get more out of him and his ilk!!!!

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#12715
Jun 15 2017 02:35pm
Quote (ofthevoid @ 15 Jun 2017 19:36)
A private letter to the parents seems fair to me imo. It's not like they publicly shamed the child in front of his peers. There is no such thing as a free lunch either the parent pays for it or the parent and everyone else pays for it through higher taxation. I'm assuming it's 75 euros for half of the school year, something that every single household in the UK can easily afford. If the school gets X money in subsidies for school lunches and the rest the parents have to provide are you expecting the school to somehow just make up the difference as to not appear insensitive?


That's what they're threatening to do if they don't pay up. That kid will be isolated from the rest and given a different lunch because his parents aren't paying... how do you think that's going to look in front of the classmates?

Not to mention that the kid should never in any case be the one paying the consequences of the parents' irresponsibility.
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#12716
Jun 15 2017 02:40pm
Whoops...



It's almost like these kinds of statements are completely arbitrary and people think it should only apply to their side.
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#12717
Jun 15 2017 02:40pm
Quote (zarkadon @ 15 Jun 2017 22:35)
That's what they're threatening to do if they don't pay up. That kid will be isolated from the rest and given a different lunch because his parents aren't paying... how do you think that's going to look in front of the classmates?

Not to mention that the kid should never in any case be the one paying the consequences of the parents' irresponsibility.


once again: the school has no leverage against the parents in person, they only have leverage against the kid. punishing the kid is the only way they can make uncooperative parents pay their dues. having the kid not participate in a lunch that his parents didnt pay for even though they actually would have had to, doesnt sound too harsh or arbitrary to me.

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Jun 15 2017 03:25pm
Quote (balrog66 @ 15 Jun 2017 18:19)
This school is showing despicable behaviour imo. If there is a problem with payment, talk with the parents first. And most of all, don't punish children for things that they cannot even influence. The fact that that is even a punishment boggles the mind. But alas, 70 quid is more important than the wellbeing of a child.


Hmm, I straight away thought it to be a somewhat inappropriate means of making parents pay, without actually isolating the children. Yet, I'm not too sure now ^^
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Jun 15 2017 03:50pm
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 15 Jun 2017 22:40)
once again: the school has no leverage against the parents in person, they only have leverage against the kid. punishing the kid is the only way they can make uncooperative parents pay their dues. having the kid not participate in a lunch that his parents didnt pay for even though they actually would have had to, doesnt sound too harsh or arbitrary to me.


I'm sure the UK has laws and mechanisms in place to solve the matter, even if it's a measly 75 pounds. The school should serve the kid the food and then follow whatever procedure is necessary to get their money, and/or make the kid transfer to a public school when the school term ends. It's not like the school is going to go bankrupt because some parents aren't paying the school lunch.
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#12720
Jun 15 2017 04:21pm
Was the child a white male?
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