Pennsylvania school district refuses CEO's offer to settle lunch debt after threatening to place children in foster care.
A Pennsylvania school district that threatened to have children placed in foster care if their parents' didn't pay outstanding lunch tabs has apparently rejected a businessman's offer to cover the cost.
"I think it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put A and B together here to realize that these people are struggling," Carmichael said in an interview with ABC Philadelphia station WPVI on Tuesday night."We're shaming people who are struggling, and that's immoral and that's just wrong." But the district's school board president, Joseph Mazur, refused the proposition in a telephone conversation on Monday, arguing that the lunch money is owed by parents who can afford to pay, according to Carmichael's spokesman Aren Platt.
"Mr. Mazur, I am offering to pay this debt in full," he wrote."By saying no, you are not just shaming families who elected you, but you are placing this burden on [Wyoming Valley West] taxpayers, and that is completely unfair."Speaking to ABC News last week, Joseph Muth, director of the school district's federal programs, said the letter was sent to dozens of parents, saying that the district was owed around $22,476 in lunch money.
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