Food fight in school cafeteria leads to cafeteria shut down for a week

[Rock]

Now parents have to fix the lunch for their kids and i love it.

[woodbridger]

must not be hungry if you are throwing food around...

[Pete]

If it's in the public school with federally mandated food program, the administrators are violating the law by excluding lunches for the week. Some of these parents won't be making their kids a lunch.

This punishment is a bad reaction to administrators being unable to manage and control sixth graders.

[woodbridger]

do the students have the right to waste food that I paid for by, the federal administrators of the lunch program should do lunch room duty.....

[woodbridger]

do children have the right to waste the food I paid for?

[Pete]

woodbridger wrote:

do children have the right to waste the food I paid for?

They call it a food fight so we have to go with that concept. In reality, it could have been used cups, ice, orange peels, or other garbage rather than food that was going to be consumed. I doubt whether significant taxpayer dollars are lost due to food fights.

[Meanie]

Pete wrote:

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They call it a food fight so we have to go with that concept. In reality, it could have been used cups, ice, orange peels, or other garbage rather than food that was going to be consumed. I doubt whether significant taxpayer dollars are lost due to food fights.

It all adds up. I would rather people be held accountable for their stupidity. What then, is your proposal for punishment? You force people to alter their normal behavior and it causes an inconvenience, thus, causing people to ensure they don't perform the act which caused the inconvenience. The Pavlov's dog effect or Newton's law of action forcing an equal and opposite reaction.

Ignoring these so called "little" nuisances is the onset of bigger nuisances. The lack of discipline within the children of this society is overwhelming. Stop it now and you avoid problems in the future.

[Pete]

Meanie wrote:

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It all adds up. I would rather people be held accountable for their stupidity. What then, is your proposal for punishment? You force people to alter their normal behavior and it causes an inconvenience, thus, causing people to ensure they don't perform the act which caused the inconvenience. The Pavlov's dog effect or Newton's law of action forcing an equal and opposite reaction.
Ignoring these so called "little" nuisances is the onset of bigger nuisances. The lack of discipline within the children of this society is overwhelming. Stop it now and you avoid problems in the future.

Schools are limited in what they can do for discipline. They can't beat the kids or spray them with hoses. Violating a federal law is not the answer. I suggest they do the same kind of allowed discipline they do for incidents in the classroom. That includes detention, isolation and extra work. I am not an administrator. Personally, I'd like to dope slap the kids. That would have happened when I went to parochial school.

[Meanie]

Pete wrote:

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Schools are limited in what they can do for discipline. They can't beat the kids or spray them with hoses. Violating a federal law is not the answer. I suggest they do the same kind of allowed discipline they do for incidents in the classroom. That includes detention, isolation and extra work. I am not an administrator. Personally, I'd like to dope slap the kids. That would have happened when I went to parochial school.

You are uncertain if it's violating a federal law. Being federal program doesn't equate to violation if shut down for a week. I'm sure there's more to the story.

[woodbridger]

Pete wrote:

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They call it a food fight so we have to go with that concept. In reality, it could have been used cups, ice, orange peels, or other garbage rather than food that was going to be consumed. I doubt whether significant taxpayer dollars are lost due to food fights.

should have sent the food to someone who was hungry....

[Pete]

Meanie wrote:

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You are uncertain if it's violating a federal law. Being federal program doesn't equate to violation if shut down for a week. I'm sure there's more to the story.

There's always more and you are right I don't know the details. You would think they considered the legality before hand. I still don't believe denying lunch to all because of a few makes sense. It just covers for ineptness in managing children. Who knows, maybe this is an ongoing problem and they tried everything else within reason.

[woodbridger]

or maybe they are kids out of control...by the way, we taxpayers subsidize each student to the tune of over $7,000 a year.....

[Pete]

woodbridger wrote:

or maybe they are kids out of control...by the way, we taxpayers subsidize each student to the tune of over $7,000 a year.....

Over $14,000 in some non-Detroit communities.
Now I see there were supposedly 175 involved in the food fight. The escalates it to a riot.

[woodbridger]

Pete wrote:

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Over $14,000 in some non-Detroit communities.
Now I see there were supposedly 175 involved in the food fight. The escalates it to a riot.

we need an army of beaurocrats to quell the riot...

[Shenny]

thats was up

[Kallarik27]

I always ate in the boys room and had a Newport and a thermos of Colt 45.