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Utah School Authorities Draw Flak After Trashing Student Lunches

<p>With outrage following the languor and indifference of authorities in a Utah school over student lunches&comma; school officials have issued an apology&period; There were reports of a staff confiscating and discarding lunches of nearly 30 children whose parents are reportedly facing a deficit in providing meal payments&period; State senator Todd Weiler said the children had also been bullied for their parents being in arrears&period; Furious parents in Salt Lake City said the hapless students of Uintah Elementary schools had also been jeered and humiliated&period; Following a posse of protests&comma; the concerned authorities have launched an inquiry into this incident that took place on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The entire blame has fallen on a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;nutrition manager”&period; The children&comma; whose lunches were trashed&comma; were provided with milk and fruits&period; Spokesperson of the Salk Lake City School&comma; Jason Olsen&comma; said on Thursday that it was a grave mistake and wrong handling on the part of the staff&period; According to school officials&comma; a nutrition manager arrives on a Monday morning at the premises to investigate what it defined as a high volume of negative balances alongside financial inanities in the account books&period; These records show students’ payments for meals prepared and served by the authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The nutrition manager&comma; abetted by a staff member began summoning parents with deficit balances in a bid to revamp or replenish the void in payments&comma; said the school officials&period; On Tuesday&comma; students who had gathered to receive their meals&comma; were shown these deficits and not served with lunch&period; They were&comma; instead asked to return the lunch boxes&period; Bullying has been a major accusation and blot in this regard&period; The boxes are thrown into the rubbish since you cannot give an already served food to another student&comma; the authorities said&period; People are justifiably upset with this gross misdemeanor or arrogance&period; Erica Lukes&comma; mother of 11 year old girl who studies in this primary school&comma; said that it is a mean and needless act&period; Her daughter’s pizza had been confiscated as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The problem gets confounded when some parents reported that their accounts were absolutely all right sans any arrears&comma; and that&comma; the concerned official was making a mistake&period; Mr Olsen said that they believe that it was the nutrition manager’s misgivings and wrongdoing in this juncture&comma; but an investigation is imperative in this context&period; On Thursday&comma; two senators swore to evaluate the school policies if the authorities failed to solve this issue&period; Raising concerns over arrears in payment is no fault&comma; but bullying kids is a serious fault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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