{"id":3964,"date":"2014-10-07T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/07\/transposedsouls-boo-author\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T05:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:55:41","slug":"transposedsouls-boo-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/07\/transposedsouls-boo-author\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3964 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/07\/transposedsouls-boo-author\/attachment\/3965\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/10\/tumblr_nc5iaxOGMo1qk91wgo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/transposedsouls.tumblr.com\/post\/99190508273\/boo-author-bitterseafigtree-thinksquad-an\">transposedsouls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/boo-author.tumblr.com\/post\/99146252640\/bitterseafigtree-thinksquad-an-eighth-grade\">boo-author<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bitterseafigtree.tumblr.com\/post\/98230275529\/thinksquad-an-eighth-grade-student-from\">bitterseafigtree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thinksquad.tumblr.com\/post\/97888500419\/an-eighth-grade-student-from-weaverville\">thinksquad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn\u2019t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford didn\u2019t see any problem with sharing his food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed like he couldn\u2019t get a normal lunch so I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn\u2019t really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn\u2019t eat it,&#8221; said Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>But the Trinity Alps Unified School District has regulations that prohibit students from sharing their meals.<\/p>\n<p>The policies set by the district say that students can have allergies that another student may not be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Barnett, the Superintendent of the Trinity Alps Unified School District says that hygiene issues also come into play when banning students from sharing meals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a policy that prohibits students from exchanging meals. Of course if students are concerned about other students not having enough to eat we would definitely want to consider that, but because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals,&#8221; said Barnett.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford\u2019s mother Sandy Bradford thinks that her son did the right thing by sharing his lunch. She also believes that it isn\u2019t up to the school to discipline her son for good manners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all means the school can teach them math and the arithmetic and physical education, but when it comes to morals and manners and compassion, I believe it needs to start at home with the parent,\u201d Sandy said.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford says that he would definitely share his lunch again if a friend wanted a portion of his meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/student-put-in-detention-for-sharing-school-lunch\/28115110\">http:\/\/www.krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/student-put-in-detention-for-sharing-school-lunch\/28115110<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kids can\u2019t share now? Or trade lunches? What the actual fuck is happening?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this article is talking around what the actual issue is.<\/p>\n<p>The student who was \u201cgiven a cheese sandwich\u201d and \u201ccouldn\u2019t get a normal lunch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how schools handle students whose families can\u2019t pay their lunch bills. They\u2019re required to give the kid something, so they get a slice of processed cheese between two pieces of white bread. Cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>All those stories about the kids who went through the lines and then had their trays taken away and dumped in the trash in front of them because their account was $5 in the red when they got to the end of the line?<\/p>\n<p>Those kids were given cheese sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about allergies. I guarantee you that kids at those tables are swapping food all the time. It\u2019s part of the school cafeteria experience.<\/p>\n<p>If the second kid was allergic to the burrito, we\u2019d be reading a different story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because this kid undermined the system that is supposed to punish students for their parents\u2019 \u201cnegligence\u201d (poverty).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^ this<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>transposedsouls: boo-author: bitterseafigtree: thinksquad: An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday. Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn\u2019t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria. Bradford didn\u2019t see any problem with sharing his food. &#8220;It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/07\/transposedsouls-boo-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,437,436,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}