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A Pennsylvania school district that recently came under fire after threatening parents that their kids could be recommended to be put in foster care if they didn’t pay off their school lunch debts has turned down an offer from a local businessman to clear the debts, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
According to the local paper, the Wyoming Valley West school board rejected an offer from Todd Carmichael, the CEO of La Colombe Coffee Roasters headquartered in Philadelphia, to pay off over $22,000 worth of debt for local students.
In an op-ed Carmichael wrote that was published in the Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice on Tuesday, the businessman said that he had worked with his team to “reach out to the school district to let them know we were eager to donate the full amount outstanding, reported as $22,467.”
“On Monday, we talked to School Board President Joseph Mazur to determine the best way to transfer the funds in order to wipe the slate clean and restore dignity to the 1,000 families who received these threatening letters,” he continued.
“Shockingly, Mr. Mazur turned us down. I can’t explain or justify his actions. Let me be clear: we offered over $22,000 with no strings attached. And he said ‘No,’” Carmichael went on to write.
- what an assBeeswax
- https://www.npr.org/…Beeswax
- they will accept the donations nowBeeswax
- there is so much idiocy in this article, beginning with the fact children in the public education system are charged to eat.colin_s
- just wow! someone doing well generously offers to help and the district turned it down until it went public. that district has to be corrupt.capn_ron
- I anyone else horrified that people who can't afford food are being shaken down? Why doesn't the district feed those kids?! wtf.zarkonite
- Idiot nation. It really is short term thinking.PhanLo
- I used to not like La Colombe. Then I started drinking them. Now I love themcannonball1978
- haha. regain dignity to deadbeats not paying for services. nice to see focus on issue without looking for a PR stunt handout. Stunt clearly doesn't fix the issudeathboy
- colin why do you think someone should get free lunch? think that is what is of importancedeathboy
- free lunch is great. free homes great, free shit period is great. but where does free shit come from and where do the costs go we ignore.deathboy
- poor people have more hope and less defense. they are the perfect prey.imbecile
- @deathboy making sure kids are fed is a basic thing we should do for each other. We'd have to be all kinds of losers to admit we can't afford caring for kids.zarkonite
- Free school lunch, paid out from the regional tax = all children are on an even footing, and poorer families are supported. Or should just keep the poor poor?shapesalad
- Hope when you are all 50 years old and can’t get a job because no one hires a designer aged 50, that you can still pay for your kids school meals.shapesalad
- zarkonite free food for all kids defined by what age and paid by whom?deathboy
- if that is the goal say the cost and who pays. and be specificdeathboy
- curious if someone without a child should pay? no one pays for my hobbies that give me the good feelies, yet i pay for othersdeathboy
- is that fair? but that breaking down who actually will pay an costsdeathboy
- Everyone gets a lunch. Easy. And please note I never used the word free, I grew up in a retarded socialist regime and I know better than to use that word whenzarkonite
- discussing handouts.zarkonite
- well than you should be very considerate of the cost zarkon knowing its not free. The end is easy, the payment not so much as you should know from such regimesdeathboy
- so how do you control price of lunches coming from the regime? who are do you nominate to sacrifice?deathboy
- There's already plenty of knowledge out there on how to feed people. This is the silly part, you already paid to know how to do this. But now you have shittyzarkonite
- administrators on the ground that can't figure out how to execute. Learning is an investment, and it will have a positive ROI in the long term. Especially for azarkonite
- place like West Virginia who was built with resource extraction, it'd be good for them (IMHO) to get some education to get out of their funk.zarkonite
- and I'm assuming you agree that hungry kids won't be able to sit in class and learn?zarkonite
- I have to ask, your federal government has a budget of 4.4trillion. When you say who's going to pay, do you mean to say you think ALL that money is well spentzarkonite
- and can't be redirected to things like this?zarkonite
- jesus christ, deathboy, the answers to all your questions are publicly available because they're all actively in play in US schools nationwide right nowmonospaced
- The idea of free lunches for low income students has been around for my entire life and yours. It's not a new proposal without planning, etc. Fuckin' hell.monospaced
- You clearly didn't go to any higher education. Based on your absolute ignorance on this, it seems like maybe you were homeschooled too?monospaced
- @mono I wonder if he understands how insurance works, or how expensive road infrastructures are. He doesn't like paying for others as if no one paid for him...zarkonite
- "theres plenty of knowledge on how to feed people" .. yea i wont invest on that response. nor on your calling out poor administration of fundsdeathboy
- what you describe is a turd that only drains more funds from private individuals with little interest. simply wrongdeathboy
- i pay my road fund in gas tax by the way. NV is one of the states with the better road programs. but still EVs dont pay. probably need to rewrite rulesdeathboy
- that tax directly to usage. funny always the under handed trying to debase me on "paid for education" Whos the sucker there?deathboy
- And as a kid who worked with his mom in the cafeteria I know plenty about "reduced" lunches and late payments. I know first hand about deadbeat parentsdeathboy
- and my mom breaking rules to feed the kids. Giving extra and what not. A payout for PR only teaches parents to be more irresponsibledeathboy
- Or maybe that is what you are hoping for your kid mono. Be dead beat and hope people pick up slack. Your views reflect how you raise.deathboy
- you seem to have such little life experiencedeathboy
- and yet, I have more life experience than you ... are you married with children?monospaced
- also, your mom was a lunch lady? and you advocate AGAINST minimum wage increases? hearltess bastard!monospaced
- The fact your mom had to break rules to feed hungry, needing children, just points to the fact the rules need to change, ffs. You're so ass backward here, dude.monospaced
- i advocate against it yes. its takes real knowledge and not chasing greed or self interest. which is the point you miss.deathboy
- knowledge that minimum wage hurts more than it helps. its a purely stupid arbitrary rule through gov. do you think a fed mandated minimum wage works for a smalldeathboy
- midwestern town as it does in a larger city? to think economies are not living breathing unique things evolved from environments.deathboy
- as far as kindness of my mom. just shows human element that doesnt need rules. you build rules you deteriorate that element. charity becomes resentment.deathboy
- Also her working at school low wage was what she wanted. she valued her children. plus it also saved on food cost with us helping out serving.deathboy
- she would think it an insult to look down on the wages for the work. that shit would be petty and superficial. another thing you should learn isdeathboy
- a lot of people make the money they make and if low have no issue. And quite sick of people who have never walked a day in their shoes trying to use them for pedeathboy
- rsonal agendas. so lil experience outside your bubble man.deathboy
- and that is why you will never reproduce ... it's funny how things just work outmonospaced
- @deathboy, why are you so quick to label people ‘deadbeats’? Do you know them all? What do churches do w/ all the money they collect? Should they just keep it?scruffics
- sometimes labels are a must in discussion. I'm totally fine with spending on "deadbeats" out of charity. Big difference from public spending.deathboy
- I actually think churches and small organizations are better capable to sort out "deadbeats" than any public mandatory system with no discretion or value of juddeathboy
- gementdeathboy
- see the thing is I KNOW i can't correctly evaluate everyone and judge wether they're a deadbeat or money is being wasted and better used on others.deathboy
- i just support structures that enable charity to be dispersed the most effectivelydeathboy
- And you are ok with churches paying no taxes?scruffics
- no im not really, but most culturally still beleive in the god shit and altruism. other take advantage of it. a bit fo double edge sword between idiots and gamedeathboy
- rs of the system. And i think the non-profit intentions have and only are gamed these days by corporations. The idea that was there is no longer validdeathboy
- however if you equalize the tax you might see people communicating a little more honestly with intention of efforts.deathboy