No such thing as free lunch

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A school district in Pennsylvania apologized this week for saying students with unpaid lunch debt might end up in foster care. The scandal is part of a nationwide crisis that has resulted in low-income students cleaning cafeterias or missing graduation ceremonies because of lunch debts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this episode of today's plane comes from KiwiCo.
0:03.6	It's a code that designs projects to spark creativity, tinkering, and learning in kids of
0:08.6	all ages.
0:10.0	They're offering today's plane listeners the chance to try them out for free to redeem
0:13.7	the offer and learn more about their projects for kids of all ages.
0:17.8	Visit KiwiCo.com slash explain.
0:24.6	Most American kids are nowhere near schools right now, but Pennsylvania somehow still
0:29.7	managed to have a big old school scandal this week.
0:33.3	And the scandal was somehow about lunch.
0:37.0	A school district under fire for sending threatening letters to parents demanding they
0:41.6	pay their children's outstanding lunch bills or risk their kids being taken away and sent
0:46.7	to foster care.
0:48.1	One more time, just in case you missed that, a school district in Pennsylvania sent parents
0:52.1	letters that threaten to take away their children if the parents didn't pay outstanding
0:58.5	school lunch bills.
1:00.2	I think the person that wrote that letter should think about having his children taken
1:05.6	away from him and put into a foster home.
1:08.7	On Wednesday, the school district apologized.
1:11.4	Todd Carmichael, a Philadelphia businessman, offered to pay off the debt of $22,000, but
1:17.0	he was turned down.
1:18.4	Well, late today, multiple sources told CBS News the district will now accept Carmichael's
1:24.5	offer and send an apology letter to the parents.
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