School-Lunch Monitoring System for Parents

karvind writes "According to Yahoo, three school districts in the Atlanta area last week became the first in the country to offer the parental-monitoring option of an electronic lunch payment system called Mealpay.com. The system was initially designed as a convenient way to make sure children bought lunch without worrying that lunch money would get lost, spent on other things or stolen. But on parent's request online meal-monitoring option was added and now parents can see all of a student's lunch purchases."

Comments

Re:The school lunch system is broken

[John Seminal]

Schools ought to provide lunches for all children. The current situation where some kids get subsidized lunches while others bring their own lunches is one more method of separating children into castes within the school and that, in turn, leads to animosity.

This logic is full of crap. So because your poor and nasty, I should force my kid to eat the same crap instead of making a nice healthy lunch, a healthy sandwhich that has big peices of green pepper sticking out?? That will make my kid cooler.

Pssst... you got the mots? Who's got the mots?

LOL.

There is no caste system based on food. There is a caste system based on coolness. Why not have all the retards placed in honors classes, so the honors kids don't get picked on??

Public schooling is free

Public school is not free. Tell that to land owners when the property tax bill comes.

Why not have parents pay for their kids education. Why should the community pay for all kids, when half will become auto mechanics or learn a trade? Schools from K through 6th grade are just baby sitters. 8th grade to 12th grade teaches academics needed for college, but not everyone needs to go. It would be better to have kids at age 15 enter a trade, work for 2 years, and then start living a life where they make money. And eliminate elementary school. Why do we pay someone with an EdD $80k for 9 months work, to babysit kids.

Do you know how many people go to college, because it is what everyone does?? They get $20k or $30k in debt, and have no trade at age 21. The other way, to teach these kids a trade at 15 or 16, have them start working at 17 making $15 an hour, they will make $30k a year. That is $120k made, plus the $30k tuition saved. The kid would have a $150k house at age 21. Not bad!!

The cost to feed a handful of students is only marginally cheaper than feeding all the students and a school district can fully feed all the children in any school by prioritizing expenses.

You've never met a teachers union? They are the #1 prioroty. They want to make over $100,000 each, and they will go on strike if you don't pay them. Then NO kids get schooling.

The best way to break the teachers union is to make parents pay for their kids education. Then parents will say to the teachers "If 45k a year is not enough, which is what everyone in the neighborhood makes, and you want to go on strike, fine, go on strike and we will vote to fire all of you".

Re:Here's a Radical Idea...

[DNS-and-BIND]

Bringing a lunch from home is hopelessly dated. Kid will just throw it away to avoid the embarassment of being seen with homemade food. Let me guess, you haven't been within a country mile of a school since you graduated, eh?