Food Punishment

On Teaching Debt Collection To Kids, Or, Here's The Outrage Of The Week

Submitted by fake consultant on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 9:14am.

In which we discuss an exciting new way to teach children to pay their bills

-frontpaged because it is so horribly, unbelievably, real (RP).

an excerpt (RP):

the Chula Vista (a suburb of San Diego, California) Elementary School District’s “alternate meals” plan, which works something like this:

If a parent owes the district more than $5 in meal money, the district will send a letter home, put a sticker on the child’s hand, and eventually, hire collection agencies.

If all that fails, the district will basically...repossess lunch.
How is that possible, you ask?

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