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Spotsylvania School Board ups ante for parents of students who run up school lunch bills Date published: 6/30/2009
By PAMELA GOULD The Spotsylvania County School Board delayed a vote last night on a revised meals policy after several members expressed opposition to punishing children for their parents' failure to pay to feed them. Under the current policy and in the proposed revision, students whose parents owed money for meals they had eaten would be denied the opportunity to take part in activities such as field trips and field days. Joyce Baugher, president of the Wilderness Elementary PTA, addressed the board at last night's meeting and said she supported the policy revisions except for that part. Board members echoed that concern and expressed others. They voted unanimously to table the issue until the next board meeting on July 20. In the interim, the food service task force will meet to continue discussing it. Lee Hill board member Amanda Blalock said she also opposed a debt cap proposed for elementary school-age children. "I cannot support anything that would not feed a child at that age," Blalock said. The discussion on revising the policy follows a school year that ended with roughly $28,000 worth of unpaid meals. The proposed policy would no longer assure students a meal during the lunch day. Instead, it would let elementary students run up a tab of $43, middle-schoolers a tab of $27, and high-schoolers one meal before credit was cut off. Under the revised policy, phone calls and letters would be used to alert parents when an account went into a deficit and as it approached the limit. If parents did not pay or set up a payment plan in response to those efforts, a collection agency could be used after the limit was reached. If a child isn't being provided a lunch or money for one, the school system could contact the county's social services department to investigate possible child neglect. School administrators are asking that parent-teacher organizations set up a safety net so that students with unpaid balances could at least get a cheese sandwich. The School Board automatically was scheduled to review its meals policy this summer, but outstanding debts from the just-ended school year made the issue a hotter topic. Of the $28,000 deficit, about $2,700 was owed by parents who later qualified for free or reduced-price lunches.
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And i do not thank a very good one at that.The buddy buddy system needs to go now. And as you say chartwells are your friends so do you work for the school system watching there backs?????????
And they did not have to worry about Chartwells getting even with them. Just to prove they can and the school board lets them. We all ready have many many hi ups paid by spotsy schools working with chartwells Why do we need two chartwells and the school system to do one job?
Yes but they went out and got them all from local companys as donations.They started the silly stuff.Its just the school board will not back up the school workers.How much do they pay to have such control over the school system and board.
Do not get me wrong we have some great people working making the kids lunch but they would do just as good really I think better if it was run by Just one honest Sposty worker,.
Because Chartwells is in as deep as the school big wigs.How much did they pay to restore JJR so they could have such offices.How much do they pay for the offices?How much do they pay the spotsy worker at the front door to answer the phone for them.How much did they pay to use the building & lunch room to give out printer copys of awards for the ones doing such a great job.Some even got a $1 picture frame most did not.Did they give anyone a thing? Yes but they went out and got them all from local companys as
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Why out Chartwells when the School Board caused the problem? The School Board members are a group of elected officials. If you don't like the way they run things, then vote them out. Chartwells has done nothing wrong in this situation. They provided a service and held up their end of the contract.
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