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Is America less free than China? After reading this news article, im starting to wonder:

https://www.10tv.com/article/kids-could-end-foster-care-over-lunch-debt-school-district-warns-parents-2019-jul?fbclid=IwAR1M-0pkzr2kR8E6OehZgk5vMNpF0CNk75LZV_oFxkgJfyGC385LOheCxmM



foster care over lunch debt, school district warns parents

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Kids could end up in foster care over lunch debt, school district warns parents - WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports


Kids could end up in foster care over lunch debt, school district warns parents

Kids could end up in foster care over lunch debt, school district warns parents NATIONAL NEWS
File Photo - Lunch at elementary school in NY (AP Photo/Mary Esch, File)

ASSOCIATED PRESS


PUBLISHED: 07/19/19 02:54 PM EDT

KINGSTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district is warning that children could end up in foster care if their parents do not pay overdue school lunch bills.

The letters sent recently to about 1,000 parents in Wyoming Valley West School District have led to complaints from parents and a stern rebuke from Luzerne County child welfare authorities.


The district says that it is trying to collect more than $20,000, and that other methods to get parents to pay have not been successful. Four parents owe at least $450 apiece.
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NativeOregonian · 51-55
That is akin to debtor's prison, which is illegal in the United States. We pay property taxes to fund schools and those taxes should include free lunches as well. It costs an average of $9,000 for every child to be publically educated every year yet they still have to buy or bring their own lunches. It costs an average of $60,000 a year to incarcerate one prisoner convicted of a crime, yet they get their meals provided. Isn't it time for those monetary figures to switch?