First of all, the school should have put up a sign saying "we do not accept payment for lunches with pennies"
No one should have gotten suspended, thats ridiculous.
Lastly when students pay for their lunches with bills and the lunch lady whores give them pennies in their change I would politely refuse and ask them to round up to a nickel
<< <i>They werent just trying to pay with pennies. Their intent was to actually disrupt the lunch line. Detentions are warranted. >>
Of course. The protest was to bring attention to the fact 30 min. is not enough time for 250 studends to wait in line and eat. As with any civil disobedience they must accept the penalty without complaint and doit again until there is change. (pun intended)
Seems to me, the maturity of the adults was on a par with the children... I am sure they were all products of our public school system. Amazing what makes news today. Oh yeah.. I guess the current crop of journalists are products of the same system - why should I expect anything better? Cheers, RickO
<< <i>First of all, the school should have put up a sign saying "we do not accept payment for lunches with pennies"
No one should have gotten suspended, thats ridiculous.
Lastly when students pay for their lunches with bills and the lunch lady whores give them pennies in their change I would politely refuse and ask them to round up to a nickel
suck on it lunch lady doris! >>
Now why do the lunch lady's have to be whores !!
My wife was the lunch lady for a few years when my kids were in junior high , she enjoyed the kids and they all respected her !
The students can write checks for all I care , they still are not "lunch lady whores"
Dan
Fishing is not a matter of life and death.......It's much more important than that........
<< <i>Detention ? Make them stay after school and cherrypick. If the Lunch Room Monitor were a numismatist, he or she could capitalize on this. >>
good idea! and while they're at it they can check for slugs sandwhiched between the end cents of the rolls!...
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As TomB said....there is no law that requires a business to accept any denomination of coin or currency. Accepting coins or paper bills is optional to the business owner and is solely based on his faith in the United States economy. But mark my words....there will come a time when businesses of every kind say enough is enough, and start refusing the monopoly money that our government prints 24 hours a day, non-stop! The fact that the government raided and shut down NORFED is all the proof I need for a self admittance of guilt by this government of ours.
Of course. The protest was to bring attention to the fact 30 min. is not enough time for 250 studends to wait in line and eat. As with any civil disobedience they must accept the penalty without complaint and doit again until there is change.
Funny, my kids school is about 15 milesfrom this school and they only get 20 minutes for lunch. One of my kids doesn't get lunch until 2pm. There are so many kids in the school systems these days, they have to cram them into lunch and gym.
I once paid a department store credit card bill that included compounded late payment fees( they wouldn't negotiate a waiver of the late fees despite extenuating circumstance) with a bag quantity of bank rolled Lincolns. (That's 100 rolls). I demanded a receipt acknowledging payment, received it and then cancelled my account. They never bothered to solicit me again after that.
<< <i>As TomB said....there is no law that requires a business to accept any denomination of coin or currency. Accepting coins or paper bills is optional to the business owner and is solely based on his faith in the United States economy. But mark my words....there will come a time when businesses of every kind say enough is enough, and start refusing the monopoly money that our government prints 24 hours a day, non-stop! The fact that the government raided and shut down NORFED is all the proof I need for a self admittance of guilt by this government of ours. >>
Not likely. It will be a cashless society in 25 years. The government will have complete control of the monitary supply and businesses/individuals will either play along or go out of business.
Hmmm, I don't believe they received their due process because they paid in cents, I think they received it because they held up the line and caused many students to miss lunch. I do not think the school went about this correctly, but then again, when a student mocks the system, the system must react.
Imagine, 8th graders came together and developed this plan to counter shorter lunch periods, I think its a pretty good show of the throught process of the 8th graders in this school. These are the leaders of tomorrow.
The paying of cents for their lunch was intended to disrupt the lunch period, which they accomplished. As a result of their actions they will now be appropriately disciplined.
The banter of whether cents can or cannot be used is mute. The intentional disruption which adversely impacts others should result in discipline.
There's nothing wrong in accepting the discipline as a result of acting out on your beliefs. The failure to accept personal responsibility for ones actions in todays younger people (in general) is not the fiber on which our country was founded or flourished.
edited to add:
It was a creative approach to bringing light onto their "issue" and for that I kind of admire them. Now take the consequences of your actions and I'll admire them even more.
<< <i>Absolute total over reaction on the part of the school, the cafeteria, those giving out suspensions. The pennies (cents) should have simply been set aside and counted later. A smile and a chuckle by the clerk would have taken all the fun out of this event for the students. Adults are really stupid how they treat young people. The over reaction is what the students wanted and got. They won. Why can't adults just chill out and go with the flow. It is never good to over react with young people no matter what they do. You will lose every single time. >>
Absolutely the best response in this thread. Simple, common sense understanding of kids and the situation leading to the obvious solution. Instead what happened was a typical overreaction by those in "control".
In the school system my kids attend money is deposited in an accout with the school system by the parent(s) which the children use to pay for lunch via a card and pin number. The current total in the childs account is available at any time via a web site and money can be deposited by check, MO or cash by the parent or child at the school office.
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<< <i>I've seen toll plazas in NJ and elsewhere with signs saying pennies not accepted. >>
My father was a former Garden State Parkway Toll Collector, he told me once that the automated coin counters in the excat change lanes can count cents. The problems begin when you (at that time) throw 25 cents into the machine it tended to jam. The other problem is that it counter takes longer to coint 25 coins so toll lines can back up. Back in the day there were gates at the exact change lanes. If the coins jammed or took forever to count you'd be waiting forever.
The kids at the school were exercising the same principal. Jamming the lunchlady's brain or backin up the line
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No one should have gotten suspended, thats ridiculous.
Lastly when students pay for their lunches with bills and the lunch lady whores give them pennies in their change I would politely refuse and ask them to round up to a nickel
suck on it lunch lady doris!
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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. >>
Of course. The protest was to bring attention to the fact 30 min. is not enough time for 250 studends to wait in line and eat.
As with any civil disobedience they must accept the penalty without complaint and doit again until there is change.
(pun intended)
I think they're all great kids. It's the adults who are messed up. My parents were screwed up until I was 25. It took them a long time, didn't it ?
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<< <i>First of all, the school should have put up a sign saying "we do not accept payment for lunches with pennies"
No one should have gotten suspended, thats ridiculous.
Lastly when students pay for their lunches with bills and the lunch lady whores give them pennies in their change I would politely refuse and ask them to round up to a nickel
suck on it lunch lady doris!
Now why do the lunch lady's have to be whores !!
My wife was the lunch lady for a few years when my kids were in junior high , she
enjoyed the kids and they all respected her !
The students can write checks for all I care , they still are not "lunch lady whores"
Dan
no offense to your wife or the millions of other competent lunch ladies.
in this particular instance the lunch ladie were a bunch of douche bagging suckwads
and my photo of of lunch lady doris (from the simpsons) was a touch of sarcasm.
cheers.
<< <i>Detention ? Make them stay after school and cherrypick. If the Lunch Room Monitor were a numismatist, he or she could capitalize on this. >>
good idea! and while they're at it they can check for slugs sandwhiched between the end cents of the rolls!...
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<< <i>What if a student gave a 1982 DDO to an astute employee? jws >>
beans make you astute. >>
I can not believe it took me 5 mins to get that
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As with any civil disobedience they must accept the penalty without complaint and doit again until there is change.
Funny, my kids school is about 15 milesfrom this school and they only get 20 minutes for lunch. One of my kids doesn't get lunch until 2pm. There are so many kids in the school systems these days, they have to cram them into lunch and gym.
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<< <i>What if a student gave a 1982 DDO to an astute employee? jws >>
beans make you astute. >>
I can not believe it took me 5 mins to get that
My girlfriend would call that one a "GROANER".
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<< <i>I would be happy to chip in money toward a legal fund .... any other members or lawyers here who want to also join in? >>
I can pay pal to a fund. But, I want to cherrypick those cents.
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<< <i>Thank goodness none of them whipped out a crisp $2 bill. They'd be shackled to a pole. >>
I remember that one...that was shockingly ridiculous.
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I think they're all great kids. It's the adults who are messed up. My parents were screwed up until I was 25. It took them a long time, didn't it ? >>
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Probably, but back up a truck loaded with nickels to my basement and I'd be happy to take them, as long as my company paid the freight.
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<< <i>As TomB said....there is no law that requires a business to accept any denomination of coin or currency. Accepting coins or paper bills is optional to the business owner and is solely based on his faith in the United States economy. But mark my words....there will come a time when businesses of every kind say enough is enough, and start refusing the monopoly money that our government prints 24 hours a day, non-stop! The fact that the government raided and shut down NORFED is all the proof I need for a self admittance of guilt by this government of ours. >>
Not likely. It will be a cashless society in 25 years. The government will have complete control of the monitary supply and businesses/individuals will either play along or go out of business.
Imagine, 8th graders came together and developed this plan to counter shorter lunch periods, I think its a pretty good show of the throught process of the 8th graders in this school. These are the leaders of tomorrow.
Just my two cents,
Ray
The banter of whether cents can or cannot be used is mute. The intentional disruption which adversely impacts others should result in discipline.
There's nothing wrong in accepting the discipline as a result of acting out on your beliefs. The failure to accept personal responsibility for ones actions in todays younger people (in general) is not the fiber on which our country was founded or flourished.
edited to add:
It was a creative approach to bringing light onto their "issue" and for that I kind of admire them. Now take the consequences of your actions and I'll admire them even more.
Thanks for serving, too.
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<< <i>Absolute total over reaction on the part of the school, the cafeteria, those giving out suspensions. The pennies (cents) should have simply been set aside and counted later. A smile and a chuckle by the clerk would have taken all the fun out of this event for the students. Adults are really stupid how they treat young people. The over reaction is what the students wanted and got. They won. Why can't adults just chill out and go with the flow. It is never good to over react with young people no matter what they do. You will lose every single time. >>
Absolutely the best response in this thread. Simple, common sense understanding of kids and the situation leading to the obvious solution. Instead what happened was a typical overreaction by those in "control".
In the school system my kids attend money is deposited in an accout with the school system by the parent(s) which the children use to pay for lunch via a card and pin number. The current total in the childs account is available at any time via a web site and money can be deposited by check, MO or cash by the parent or child at the school office.
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
<< <i>I've seen toll plazas in NJ and elsewhere with signs saying pennies not accepted. >>
My father was a former Garden State Parkway Toll Collector, he told me once that the automated coin counters in the excat change lanes can count cents. The problems begin when you (at that time) throw 25 cents into the machine it tended to jam. The other problem is that it counter takes longer to coint 25 coins so toll lines can back up. Back in the day there were gates at the exact change lanes. If the coins jammed or took forever to count you'd be waiting forever.
The kids at the school were exercising the same principal. Jamming the lunchlady's brain or backin up the line