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29 N.J. Students Punished After Using Pennies To Pay For Lunch
Some Parents Think Detention Went Too Far; Others Think It Wasn't Enough
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing.
Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches.
Superintendent Jorden Schiff said it started out as a prank. But as the eighth-graders began to get in trouble for taking up so much time, it turned into a protest about Thursday's shortened lunch period.
Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides.
Schiff said some parents think a two-day detention went too far and others think it wasn't enough.
The school, which is located in Hunterdon County, said it wants students to know they can express themselves without disrupting other people.
29 N.J. Students Punished After Using Pennies To Pay For Lunch
Some Parents Think Detention Went Too Far; Others Think It Wasn't Enough
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing.
Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches.
Superintendent Jorden Schiff said it started out as a prank. But as the eighth-graders began to get in trouble for taking up so much time, it turned into a protest about Thursday's shortened lunch period.
Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides.
Schiff said some parents think a two-day detention went too far and others think it wasn't enough.
The school, which is located in Hunterdon County, said it wants students to know they can express themselves without disrupting other people.
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They should be happy I am not a student there, as I would use pennies everyday. Money is money, legal tender. TFB if the reciever is that f*&$&^% lazy that they cannot count a few coins in a timely manner
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be ashamed that i could not outfox a few kids.
for example, i would goto the store and buy a cheap change counter.
mount it next to the register and tada!
stupid adults in position of authority often over react when kids seem
to outfox them.
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Edited to: change wording.
It's a simple matter to refuse them in payment and if they aren't smart enough to figure this out before or during the fact that doesn't give them right to act afterward.
At least the zinc interests get their cut. That's the important thing.
<< <i>Public schools are retarted!!! >>
So, .... which one did you attend?
I remember that when I was in 8th grade, someone in my class paid for their food with cents one day and no one did anything.
Granted this is 29 people and not 1, but still, money is money and they should have either refused or accepted it.
<< <i>That's BS.
Public schools are retarted!!!....STONE >>
retarted?
Ray
<< <i>no one has mentioned or asked just exactly when pennies were no longer considerd money?
They should be happy I am not a student there, as I would use pennies everyday. Money is money, legal tender. TFB if the reciever is that f*&$&^% lazy that they cannot count a few coins in a timely manner
On your next pay day, I would love to see your employer pay your salary entirely in pennies. I bet you would change your tune.
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Come to think of it, I once got yelled at by a fat lunch checkout lady because I filled up my little bowl at the salad bar with grapes. I didn't want a full-blown salad. We're talking about a little styrofoam bowl that held maybe 6 oz - less than a small bunch of grapes. I just wanted some frickin' grapes. There's got to be a joke in there about the grapes of wrath, but I'm too tired to think it up.
<< <i>The idiots accepting pennies should be disciplined.
It's a simple matter to refuse them in payment and if they aren't smart enough to figure this out before or during the fact that doesn't give them right to act afterward.
At least the zinc interests get their cut. That's the important thing. >>
money is money, if taken to the courts id come out the winner.
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<< <i>no one has mentioned or asked just exactly when pennies were no longer considerd money?
They should be happy I am not a student there, as I would use pennies everyday. Money is money, legal tender. TFB if the reciever is that f*&$&^% lazy that they cannot count a few coins in a timely manner
On your next pay day, I would love to see your employer pay your salary entirely in pennies. I bet you would change your tune. >>
I deposit my pay, so in essense id be "passing the buck", or in this case "the cent"
and in the same retort, if you ran out of gas and all you had was pennies, and the station jockey refused them you would change your tune real quick.
I could careless about this, but like I said money is money. Get over it.
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Whatever else we do, can we stop using this as a jumping off point to slam public schools? Public schools are broadly representative of our society -- that includes the students, the faculties, and the staff. Some of the most brilliant people I know are public school students. Others are public school teachers. Same goes for some of the stupidest. Any strengths we have as a culture are in evidence in our public schools. Ditto any weaknesses.
<< <i>They werent just trying to pay with pennies. Their intent was to actually disrupt the lunch line. Detentions are warranted. >>
Let's hope you're not in charge of any schools. The money they were paying with is legal tender. The school has to take it. If the school hires people who can't count then it's the school's problem, not the students'. The school shouldn't be shortening the lunch period anyway, the kids came up with a very ingenious way to protest. Good for them. If I were a parent of one of the 29 I'd be buying my child a present and throwing a HOLY FIT at the school.
No they don't. Same principle as a gas station refusing a $100 bill.
<< <i>They werent just trying to pay with pennies. Their intent was to actually disrupt the lunch line. Detentions are warranted. >>
why not just string up the little buggers? can't have any "disruptions" in the schools -- like the 6-year-old who was sent home because his mother dared to give him a "disruptive" haircut.
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<< <i>I've seen toll plazas in NJ and elsewhere with signs saying pennies not accepted. >>
I tried paying with pennies on the mass pike many years ago -- toll was 10 cents and all i had to my name was those 10 pennies. clerk refused to accept them at first, they after a while did but then claimed i had only giver her 9 -- and i knew exactly how many i had.
after a while she just waved me through -- lots of kerfuffle over a penny,
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<< <i>No they don't. Same principle as a gas station refusing a $100 bill. >>
Yeah, but it's posted at gas stations. Do you think it was posted in the school lunch line that they won't take cents? I doubt it. They have no right not to take them if a sign isn't posted.
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<< <i>If they had only used cents instead of pennies! >>
Exactly Tom!
<< <i>ask me, morons run that lunch cafeteria. if something like that escaped from a cafeteria that i ran to the principal's office i would
be ashamed that i could not outfox a few kids.
for example, i would goto the store and buy a cheap change counter.
mount it next to the register and tada!
stupid adults in position of authority often over react when kids seem
to outfox them. >>
Good answer I like it.
You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.
One lunch aid thought she was doing me a favor by accepting my pennies one day
They did nothing illegal and I too think detention was too much. They could have been told nicely to not do it again.
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<< <i>They werent just trying to pay with pennies. Their intent was to actually disrupt the lunch line. Detentions are warranted. >>
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No they were NOT "JUST" disrupting the lunch line-----It's called non-violent political protest, at least
outside of NJ, Russia, and I guess where you live.
Growing up in DC as I did, my life was contantly "disrupted" by every sort of oddball
protest one can imagine-----I amazes me how people elsewhere are so intolerent of immature but
short lived disruptions.
PLUS--these NJ peolple are nothing but sicko pennies haters!!!
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<< <i>What if a student gave a 1982 DDO to an astute employee? jws >>
beans make you astute.
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I tried to pay for gas with a 50, the clerk would not take it, kind of irritating.
I asked her why, she said, "because my boss says so". So I ask the boss, he says, "it's company policy".
This was at a Mobil gas station. I wonder if this policy is nationwide? I took my business elsewhere.
beans make you astute.
Isn't a protest of any kind worthless....if there isn't disruption on some level?
my mom always said "if you're gonna make a scene...then by all means, BE SEEN!