SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Erica Lukes and other Utah parents were outraged when their children had their deep dish pizzas and other food taken and thrown away at their elementary school after a cashier said they owed money on their lunch accounts.
Lukes said taking the $2 meals from about 30 students was "humiliating and demoralizing."
"People are upset, obviously, by the way this has been handled because it's really needless and quite mean," she said. "Regardless if it's $2, $5, you don't go about rectifying a situation with a balance by having a child go through that."
The Salt Lake City School District apologized on Thursday and said it was investigating what happened at Uintah (Yoo-IN-tah) Elementary and working to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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2 comments:
This happened to my child at Willards Elementary last year. Yet my tax dollars pay for free meals every day for other kids.
7:45 Maybe you should pay your own bills and stop worrying about what others get. In reality you probably pay very little in taxes.
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