Blame The Parents, Not The Workers

From the Houston Chronicle: A food service company spokesman said Friday it has fired four employees after about two dozen students at a Massachusetts middle school were denied lunches this week because their prepaid meal accounts ran low.

"There is a zero tolerance for any individual who leaves a child hungry," said Todd Shapiro, a spokesman for Islandia, N.Y.-based Whitsons Culinary Group.

The lunch decision outraged parents, who said some students at Coelho Middle School in Attleboro cried Tuesday after being told they couldn't eat. Parents and school officials said some students were told to throw their lunches away when they reached the checkout.
Whitsons officials apologized Friday and said it was a violation of its policy that only occurred at Coelho, which has students in fifth through eighth grades.
Marketing vice president Holly Van Seggern said Friday the company would give free lunch to all Coelho students for three days next week and also host a barbeque for students and families at a later time.

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Food-workers-fired-as-Mass-students-denied-lunch-4413537.php

The first people to blame are the parents of the kids.  Apparently, they didn't care enough about their kids to put money in their lunch accounts.

In the Clark County School District, last year this was the policy, even for the most disabled child who did not have money in their lunch account.  we had severely disabled kids denied lunch because the parents did not have money in their accounts.

No, the kids did not go hungry as school staff put our own money in or gave them our own food.

But for students who were not disabled, we had many kids go hungry last year and maybe this year because they did not have money in their lunch accounts.

So, to the people in Attleboro MA., pay your lunch tabs and leave the workers alone.