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School-Lunch Monitoring System for Parents

Posted by Zonk on from the love-the-ap-photo-of-the-kid-sucking-down-a-burrito dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Good idea. by Dizzle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have to teach students to eat well before you can expect them to eat well. I'm tired of seeing parents who only make a home cooked meal once a week, live off of hamburger helper and delivery pizza, send the kid to grade school and middle school where the provided lunches are fried everything (hamburgers, hamburger pizza, spaghetti with melted cheese, cheese sandwiches, hotdogs, weiner wraps, macaroni and cheese, fish sticks, chicken nuggets and so on) - and some how expect them to make the same wise meal choices that YOU don't make for YOURSELF or FOR THEM or that their SCHOOLS have made for them thus far.

    Stop it, you're making me hungry!

    --
    -Dizzle
    "I most likely AM so interested in myself."
  2. Re:YRO? by The+Slashdotted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >You spelled emaciated wrong.

    Emaciated is either for me or recipents who think I'm stupid enough to pay 30% into the death trap known as Social Security.

    I'll take the latter, but thanks.

  3. Re:YRO? by jcr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm trying to figure out if this is a brilliant bit of satire on your part, or if you actually mean it.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."