The cheese sandwich rears its ugly head!
You may recall that way back in June of 2007 parents who didn’t pay their kid’s school lunch tab were punished by having their kid eat a cheese sandwich rather than receive a regular hot lunch. Well, that’s now the situation in Albuquerque. You fail to give your kid money for lunch—the school gives him or her a stigmatized cheese sandwich. And keep in mind that kids on free lunch always get the hot lunch, not the sandwich.
I’m not sure why this particular attempt at problem solving is so intriguing. But it’s too bad the kids can’t get a hot lunch, and the parents can’t get the cheese sandwich.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
A daydream: rebellious proto-vegetarians “forget” their lunch money to avoid the dreaded hot lunch.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Oh, my kids get the cheese sandwich routinely–and they HATE it. But it does motivate them to give me the form and/or tell me they don’t have any more money in their account. I can see this for grades 4 and above. Not so much for the little ones.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
When I was a kid, it was a peanut butter sandwich.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Much like CC, it was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for us. However, they tended to go stale quickly and could often be several days old before you got to them.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I am SUCH an adult now, because I just roll my eyes and say “you’ll get over it” and go make myself a cheese sandwich.
But I suppose as a kid it would be mortifying.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
The cheese sandwich debate is featured on http:/detentionslip.org ! The nations leader for all things crazy in our schools.