Georgia School Board Hires Collection Agency to Collect on Unpaid Lunches

[PeppyGPhiB]

$1.50 is a pretty cheap lunch...is that what school lunches cost, or is that the reduced rate? If reduced, these parents have already shown that they don't have much in the way of funds.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

$1.50 is a pretty cheap lunch...is that what school lunches cost, or is that the reduced rate? If reduced, these parents have already shown that they don't have much in the way of funds.

1.50 was what it was at my high school. Not reduced.

Cheap stuff. And I still love it. As creepy as it sounds, I wish I had high school friends who could bring me those 1.50 lunches.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

1.50 was what it was at my high school. Not reduced.

Cheap stuff. And I still love it. As creepy as it sounds, I wish I had high school friends who could bring me those 1.50 lunches.

I loved the cheesy spaghetti and side buns. That was always my favorite lunch. I used to sop the cheesy sauce with the bun. YUM.

I also loved the pickles, honeybuns and sugary purple punch that we could buy from the "snack store."

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I loved the cheesy spaghetti and side buns. That was always my favorite lunch. I used to sop the cheesy sauce with the bun. YUM.

I also loved the pickles, honeybuns and sugary purple punch that we could buy from the "snack store."

Mine was the "Chicken Ring Things" which was chicken rings (god knows what kind of chickens come in rings?), mashed potatoes, and a roll with milk.

RE: Whoever was talking about school food reform. A recent study (I can find it if you care to know) found that McDonalds food quality was far more stringent then the common public school provided lunch. Don't trust the government.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Mine was the "Chicken Ring Things" which was chicken rings (god knows what kind of chickens come in rings?), mashed potatoes, and a roll with milk.

RE: Whoever was talking about school food reform. A recent study (I can find it if you care to know) found that McDonalds food quality was far more stringent then the common public school provided lunch. Don't trust the government.

I used to work for McDonald's PR agency. They have extremely high standards. They also have their own regional meat suppliers so they can closely monitor the operations. I trust McDonald's way more than I do most other fast food restaurants, and even more than some dine-in restaurants. They are a very well-operated company. They are also a well-respected employer.

[PeppyGPhiB]

I don't even know if my high school had a cafeteria. I remember buying bagels and just-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip Otis Spunkmeyer cookies from the DECA-ran student store, but I don't think I ever went into the cafeteria.

I now understand why the food our schools serve is such crap. $1.50 doesn't buy anything healthy. Maybe one apple.

ETA: Has anyone else watched that Jamie Oliver "Food Revolution" show that is all about rehabing our country's school lunch guidelines? It's really interesting. It's a movement he's bringing from England, where he WAS able to change the country's school lunch program.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I don't even know if my high school had a cafeteria. I remember buying bagels and just-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip Otis Spunkmeyer cookies from the DECA-ran student store, but I don't think I ever went into the cafeteria.

for realz?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

for realz?

Yes. Most of the students at my school went off campus for lunch, brought from home and ate with friends around the grounds, or bought from the student store.

I know we had a cafeteria. I just don't know if food was served there.

[AXiDMeesh]

When I was in middle and high school (although it was in Gwinnett County, not Brantley) the school let us charge lunch to our accounts. In middle school you could do it however many times you wanted to, but in high school you could only do it three times before you had to pay at least one of those lunches off. Then my junior year the price for all lunches increased from $1.50 to $2.25, and they stopped letting you charge, and if you owed any lunch money you weren't allowed to graduate. The price of breakfast went up too, but idk how much because I rarely ate breakfast at school. But we had really good cafeteria food. It was food court style and also had a hot lunch area. It was definitely wayyyy better than the crap my college serves now.

[knight_shadow]

I miss square pizza.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I miss square pizza.

I miss fiestados (Mexican pizza) and (showing my age) Pac-Man pizza, which was pita pizza with a wedge cut out for the mouth and a pepperoni for the eye.

Then again, that was back in the day when they actually made the food on school grounds. I think they get premade food from some service now, which means the food is probably as shitty tasting as some of the stuff I had in college.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

TACO DAYS! But my high school was over 6,000 kids 1,000+ on a portable/trailer campus and 5,000+ on the main campus (still w/ portables/trailers) so if we GOT lunch and the time to eat it we were lucky.

[moe.ron]

I miss sloppy joe

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

$1.50 is a pretty cheap lunch...is that what school lunches cost, or is that the reduced rate? If reduced, these parents have already shown that they don't have much in the way of funds.

Our basic school lunch is $2.50 but my girl usually spends $3.50 because you can get all kinds of stuff ala carte. Our reduced lunch fee is $1.50. Then there are free lunches. As previously noted, that is a federal program and if a school accepts federal funding, they have to include that program.

When I was in high school, we had funding problems and they eliminated lunch altogether. They shortened our school day so that we were out of school by 1:30 or something like that. We had a 10 minute "nutrition break" at the end of 3rd hour. We could bring stuff to eat then or buy stuff at the school store. I was selling candy bars for 3 years to pay for a trip to Mexico City with my Spanish class and I sold TONS of candy bars during nutrition break.. enough to pay for my whole trip!

Our schools recently went to a new vendor for lunch who only serves healthier food. My son stopped buying lunch at all, even though what I make him is just as healthy as what's available. He always hated the lines for lunch anyway.

[DaemonSeid]

Who Georgia should hire to collect lunch money