School lunch lady fired for feeding student unable to pay for $8 lunch

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For five years, Bonnie Kimball's job serving students at Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan, New Hampshire, lunch was her life.

"We didn't even call it work," Kimball told Valley News. "We got up in the morning, we took care of our families and we went to take care of the kids."

Kimball's extended second family at the school included 326 students, and she shares that, in between ringing them up at the cash register and making them ice cream sundaes, she listened to them.

But according to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Kimball was fired by the school's food vendor, Cafe Services, after she allowed a boy to have his $8 lunch when it was discovered he had no money in his account on March 28.
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Eight dollars? That's all I got out of this. I don't pay that much for myself for lunch never mind for the kids. What is this kid buying? I mean I think she should have been reprimanded unless there were other problems and this was a final straw. If kids were buying expensive a la cart dishes and she is putting the school into the red repeatedly not asking for payment that can't continue. Also Mom might have requested the child not be able to buy extras- I've done that- and the cashier didn't listen. Eight bucks a lunch is a high amount.
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I couldn't be a lunch lady. I'd feed all the kids. I'd be like that lunch lady on Billy Madison. HAVE SOME MORE SLOPPY JOES! I MADE EM EXTRA SLOPPY FOR YAS! Lol.
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What kind of school luch cost $8. Holy hell. My kids would pack a lunch
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The school policy is to feed the kids regardless of whether they pay or not. However, the lunch of the day is what the child gets if there are no funds in hsi/her account. A district manager was there from the contracted food services and this lady was told to keep everything running smoothly by her boss. She told the child quietly to let his mom know there were no funds. The next day, the child came and paid the bill. BUT the lunch lady was fired at the end of the day.

Regardless of how much the bill was, firing someone over feeding a child ONE DAY is atrocious. The article does not say if this was an ongoing thing or whether children were not coming back to pay their bill.

I agree with you that maybe setting limits may be a good way to keep costs down for parents.

Pjmm wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 9:44 am Eight dollars? That's all I got out of this. I don't pay that much for myself for lunch never mind for the kids. What is this kid buying? I mean I think she should have been reprimanded unless there were other problems and this was a final straw. If kids were buying expensive a la cart dishes and she is putting the school into the red repeatedly not asking for payment that can't continue. Also Mom might have requested the child not be able to buy extras- I've done that- and the cashier didn't listen. Eight bucks a lunch is a high amount.
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cgd5112 wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 10:19 am The school policy is to feed the kids regardless of whether they pay or not. However, the lunch of the day is what the child gets if there are no funds in hsi/her account. A district manager was there from the contracted food services and this lady was told to keep everything running smoothly by her boss. She told the child quietly to let his mom know there were no funds. The next day, the child came and paid the bill. BUT the lunch lady was fired at the end of the day.

Regardless of how much the bill was, firing someone over feeding a child ONE DAY is atrocious. The article does not say if this was an ongoing thing or whether children were not coming back to pay their bill.

I agree with you that maybe setting limits may be a good way to keep costs down for parents.

Pjmm wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 9:44 am Eight dollars? That's all I got out of this. I don't pay that much for myself for lunch never mind for the kids. What is this kid buying? I mean I think she should have been reprimanded unless there were other problems and this was a final straw. If kids were buying expensive a la cart dishes and she is putting the school into the red repeatedly not asking for payment that can't continue. Also Mom might have requested the child not be able to buy extras- I've done that- and the cashier didn't listen. Eight bucks a lunch is a high amount.
I agree it was ridiculous to fire the lunch lady over one incident.
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Me too.
And I think she shouldn’t have been fired if it was a first incident, maybe just get a warning. Because I can also understand that providing one lunch may not be a big deal, what if she starts handing out 10? Or 20? It adds up.
But if this was the first time she did this, during her was over the top. Give her one chance.
carterscutie85 wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 10:03 am I couldn't be a lunch lady. I'd feed all the kids. I'd be like that lunch lady on Billy Madison. HAVE SOME MORE SLOPPY JOES! I MADE EM EXTRA SLOPPY FOR YAS! Lol.
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It's nice to see that Jose Andres has offered her a job but I don't think she should have been fired in the first place and I imagine she loved her previous job.
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