Punishment to fit the "crime"

Dr Croom, this shoudl be examined.

OK, WJHS student comes in and tells me that because he didn't have his student ID, that at lunch he was not allowed to go through the fast food line, but had to go through the regular line. Fast food line represents what many of these kids want to eat, it's faster than the regular line, thus impacting the time they have to eat, and it's more profitable to the school to sell the fast food stuff.

Granted, the students should have their student ID. And for those that don't, waiting until lunchtime seems to be missing the opportunity to find this out in time for students to make other arrangements.

Purely a desire by Mrs. Honeycutt to punish the kids by precluding them from having fast food, forcing them to take more of their precious time to go into line1 for food they may partially eat.

To take the cake, (no pun intended) the waste of food in the fast food line is unconscionable, not to mention the loss to the school of the profit made from the sale of fast food.

I'm all for having students to have their id. I believe there are more creative, and appropriate ways to deal with the issues, rather than waiting until lunch to check, and then deny kids the food they want to eat. If they want to ay extra for the fast food, and the school makes some coin on the deal, I say no harm, no foul.

Or, is this just another example of power run amuck, and deciding things on the spot, with no examination and adherence to JoCo policy?

 

They still get lunch, no?

 

Bet he remembers his ID next time :lol:

 

I agree with the above post.

 

The students are reminded via morning announcements to have their ID and if they don't, they can get one made 1, 2, & 4 blocks.

 

so this kid had plenty of time to get one!!

 

Dude......bring the ID and follow the rules.

 

Seriously? Kids have to learn their are consequences to "forgetting". This is a lesson my 10 year old is learning the hard way right now. :?

 

If that was the worst "punishment" I'd ever gotten, I don't believe I'd be quite as responsible as I am now. I mean, really? Upset that he didn't get to go through the fast line and had to eat regular school food once??

 

No argument that the responsibility to have one's ID is important.

How about the fact that so much food is thrown away...foods that we have paid for, which also provide some level of profit to the school, which are tossed, in effect putting our coin in the trash, and representing the loss of income to the school?

Any of us here ever forgotten a wallet, or ATM card, purse..driver's license?

 

:iagree:

 

Not really . . . Little Johnnie could decide to not waste his time in line to pay for food that he's not going to eat. Or, if little Johnnie were a clever boy he would give money to one of his friends and have them buy the fast food for him. :lol:

 

Did the student not pay for his food?

 

Hat, I get your beef about the food waste. It is ridiculous the way some of the cafeteria's are run in these schools, like feeding my 6ft tall 7th graders the same portions they got in the 2nd grade and charging the same price and the waste that goes on too.

But it's kinda like everyone said, him forgetting his ID and not getting to eat is just tough noogies.


So which one we fussing about? :mrgreen:

 

I'm sure the non-fast food is thrown away just as much. Plus, the kids don't need the fast food anyway. As long as the kid got to eat I don't see a problem.

 

This is the way I see it....

Lunch is school, should be a right.

Fast food in school, isn't a right, it's a privilege.

 

When you say "Fast Food Line" are you referring to Fast Food as we know it or to a line that is faster for some reason? Either way the other line sounds acceptable. It's either a slight inconvenience for forgetting his ID or he is encouraged to eat healthier food.

 

Fast food in school? And we wonder why kids are fat as hell?

 

I'm there too.


I mean, the situation sounds sucky for the kid... but why is there fast food at school at all?

My HS had Sonic delivered, but thats because there was no lunch program. The local Sonic was "kind" enough to help us out (for a fee)... however unhealthy it was.

Is this as a replacement for being able to leave campus as seniors to go get your own food? If so it doesn't seem like much of a replacement... the benefit there was getting to leave campus not the food (IMO).