Trillions for war, pennies for the hungry.

Those pennies need to go to the WAR! Or ISIS will take away our freedoms!!

To make her life easier and maybe so she can buy more lunches for kids.

Note to Aurora CO school district: If your policies cancel out compassion, you need new policies.

A piece of cheese on a hamburger bun. That's what a Famous Hamburger Place served me in Massachusetts when I ordered the vegetarian option. Just the thing to get a child through the school day! <\sarcasm>

if they violate them. I don't know why DU gets so up in arms hating on staff about stories where a kid gets a hot lunch snatched away if they don't have credit in their accounts. Jobs are on the line.

Maybe pay attention to privatization of school services and the assholes on your local school board. Staff hate these policies too.

What's hard for the kids is having something different from everybody else, it opens them up to being bullied over it.

Still, if this gal had been paying for the occasional lunch, firing her was positively Scrooge like.

It's good this is in the media. She will very likely be reinstated and Scrooge will have a very red face for a while.

Scrooge will be looking for a new job. I can't be the only person in this nation who's dead tired of this kind of shit.

refusing hungry children food is sickening..put those people on a hamburger slice of cheese diet and see how they like it....good god....how do these people sleep at night..or even face themselves in the mirror..

homes of wealthy and well-to -do people.

Made them look in the kids eyes and shamed the cheap bastards in front of everyone. Maybe a few hundred hungry families and their friend need to start showing up outside all the city and school functions, Christmas parties, all that.

Unless you educate the public that there are more of them than there are these assholes they will keep beating them up.

This country will face a permanent loss of ability from those kids, because the effects of bad nutrition CANNOT BE made up for in the vast majority of cases.

These are your future soldiers and workers. The nation, both those doing it and those allowing it are going to lose because of it. And the kids, and their parents, will just cry themselves to sleep.

You are just the bravest, biggest people ever, beating up on kids like that. Pathetic.

Sounds like a variant of the Nuremberg defense. I would sure like to read the policy that states it's against the rules to buy someone's lunch.

Who WROTE the policy? It wasn't handed down from some almighty being, or created by a secret race of robots. Someone thought it would be a good idea, someone typed it up, and someone voted on it.

And yes,this is just one of many reactions from this School's Administrators. One of the Wealthiest Neighborhoods in the Denver area,namely Cherry Creek. This District is run by a bunch of Fundies with ties to the Colorado Springs Fundies.

She'd have received $975,000 in a GoFundMe account by now.

I'd put something in it. Clearly she'd do something good with the money. I don't like to see compassionate people suffer.

That's the core purpose of these policies. Same with the standardized tests used to defund schools, same with the assaults on food stamps and on housing assistance. There is a constant and unending assault on the poor in our society. It's merciless and designed to split people apart. The drug wars, police brutality, and our prison systems are some of the more racialized and militarized aspects of the state's attack. It's all designed to beat the poor down at every step of their lives, never stopping for a moment.

Policies like these are effective at hurting poorer communities. The policies force the employees to choose between themselves and the children. They are stripped of their dignity and made to deny hungry children food every day in order to work. That is a heart-wrenchingly wrong thing that our society says is okay. And it all serves to change us all into little bits of labor to be bought and sold and used. Everyday brutality like this is woven in and out of our entire system. Keeps the people oppressed, tired, stressed, angry, and divided.

how we feel about this.

To the person I think is in charge:

Are you the person responsible for firing the kitchen director? If so, I think you should reinstate her. I saw the story at this link:


http://kfor.com/2015/06/02/elementary-school-kitchen-manager-fired-for-giving-students-without-money-free-lunch/


I am a teacher and sometimes have a hungry child in my class. They can’t think if they’re hungry. All they are thinking about is how hungry they are. Sometimes they disrupt the rest of the class because they are only thinking about how they need food. At our school, we do whatever we can to get the child something. In the case I am speaking of, somehow an orange and a container of milk appeared for this third grader who was in tears because he was hungry.

I am new at this school, so I don’t know what the “policy” is, but I do know that we didn’t serve the child some cheese on a bun, which would only raise his glycemic levels and possibly lead to a blood sugar crash, thus disrupting his concentration even more.

Please reconsider your policies. Somehow, some way you should be able to give a student who is hungry something nutritional.

Then I signed my full name and the town/address.

I found the address here:

http://nutrition.aurorak12.org/staff/



Cher

That's so crazy messed up. There's rules against buying hungry students lunch? Why? How would that be a problem?

Bastards!

Isn't that one of the PukeBagger mantras?

Disgraceful and unethical.

Whose f**king business is that then
The school got their money
Mind their own frickin business

She wasn't giving it away, she wasn't stealing it: she bought it! What on earth is the problem? Our country is so messed up. I always had food in my class in case kids were hungry.

Officials who behave like this should be fired. Then their disgusting and pathetic behavior should be punished by 30 days in jail on a bread and water diet. Lastly, public humiliation and shaming when they are released.

This behavior should definitely not go unpunished.

The kitchen manager should be promoted and given a raise and her nurturing behavior should be encouraged.

She has that thing that eludes too many - empathy.

She did the right thing.

You disdainfully call them a "do-gooder".

First, I had the wrong school district, but there are two districts in Aurora, CO.

The person who responded to me said she knows the director at the subject school district, and that the kitchen director was fired for a reason different than what was stated in the news story. She said that " I am sure you know that not all information provided by the media is accurate and can be sensationalized." This person's feeling was that the director had good cause and to give her the benefit of the doubt.

She went on to clarify the policy at her district, which was stated as: " We never refuse a meal to a child. We let them charge their meals and contact the parents about the bill. However, many of our students are on free and reduced meals. Cherry Creek has low free and reduced."

So the problem seems to be the policy, which is that Cherry Creek only has "low free," but not free.


Cher

Lose trillions of dollars? Taxpayer bailout
Have $7.00 food debt? Cheese sandwich you little punk.

Man this country is effed up.

what really bothers me is this is the kind of thing that can be fixed by lazy people getting off their asses and, I don't know, actually talking to one another. If the policy was being violated they should have asked Della about it and when she explained what was happening, if the admins had just called the parents chances are this was just a simple matter of forgetting to make a payment that could have been rectified in 5 minutes. and if they couldn't make a payment chances are the student could have signed up for free lunch. instead you have this half assed "policy" and admins just firing Della because they are too lazy to look into the situation. Its pathetic.