Is this really news? One person thought different from another person. And it's in North Carolina, for Chrissakes.

"Is this really news?"

The mother got a note and a bill from the school charging her $1.25 for the lunch the child only ate 3 nuggets from.

They told the mother later to ignore the note and the bill.

The USDA is trying to cover for a 'nervous techer'....

Yeahhhh--right...

another fuck up masked as miscommunication.

consider it testing the waters to guage reaction....

Sunds like the USDA is trying to cover their ass.

A teacher apparently was nervous during this state review and mishandled the situation

Too much is riding on too little. Teachers are more concerned with passing state reviews than teaching kids. We see it in Florida with the FCAT; schools base their entire curriculum on passing the test and not on educating our kids.

I wonder if all the "something smells wrong" individuals will say the same thing in this story, or if they will say "The USDA has no reason to lie..."

Teachers are more concerned with passing state reviews than teaching kids. We see it in Florida with the FCAT; schools base their entire curriculum on passing the test and not on educating our kids.
Posted by kanrei

You make it sound as if teachers prefer it that way.

You make it sound as if teachers prefer it that way.

#8 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2012-02-17 09:42 AM |

I didn't mean to. I hoped to convey that it is the regulations forcing them to change their priorities. If I didn't make that clear, I am sorry. My father and step-mother are both educators.

I read some more of this story from local sources and it seems it was not all that insidious. Yes the teacher made a mistake, but that is all it was.
It does not seem common and these are kids in a high risk preschool program so checking their lunches makes sense. Many of them come from broken homes where the parents might not give a damn. 90% of these kids are on free lunch so for most of the kids checking the lunch is not the norm because it is a cafeteria lunch every day. So a teacher being inspected not used to checking lunches freaks out and makes a mistake. We have all made mistakes and as long as there is no repeat then I see no crisis. If it becomes SOP then there is an issue.