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

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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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Any time parents neglect the welfare of their children there's a risk that they will lose their ability to further neglect their children ... i.e. their children may have to be taken into foster care while child welfare agencies investigate.

The implication that schools have a responsibility to care for neglected children while ignoring parents' neglect of those children is silly. The schools did their part. It's the parents behavior that needs to be evaluated.

The best interest of the children rules the day.