cathmom Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 The other thread got me wondering. Everybody was saying that they could steal their children's lunch money to replicate the experience, and I was wondering how common that really was. For me, the answer is no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sputterduck Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, but I was not in ps until high school and the people at my private school were generally very nice and well behaved. Public school was SUCH a shock in high school. I had never dreamed that other kids would act the way that they did in my high school. The sad thing is it was the best high school in my area, and would be considered a great school no matter where it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Yes, several times, but to be fair, it was usually while waiting for the bus or on the bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyJoy Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, my lunch money was never stolen. However, several of my belongings were stolen or intentionally ruined by classmates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I went to private school and we didn't have hot lunches. When my daughter went to public school (first grade, four years ago) lunches were billed to parents. No cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, I lost it myself.:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I never brought any lunch money. I preferred my mom's sandwiches. ;) I was picked on quite a bit and sometimes had items purposefully ruined by other classmates, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrellyMama Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I said yes and it was stolen by none other than my own brother. :glare: Thanks bro! Kelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, I never had my lunch money stolen. I went to school in a small town where I was related to or went to church with most of the teachers. If I didn't have lunch money, they would have fed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, I lost it myself.:001_huh: LOL, me too! I did have a miserable time, but normally didn't have anything worth stealing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 i had free lunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyof4ks Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, and that is strange because I went to a 'rough' high school lol. Students here no longer take money, lunch is paid on an account online or mailed in so the kids don't carry money around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Never. I got punched in the stomach for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smrtmama Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I was in public school for 12.5 years (did public K for half the year) and never had anything stolen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoboys Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I voted other. We were only allowed to buy lunch once a year on our birthday, so it was a huge deal for me. When I turned 10, I was SO excited to get my hot lunch (we were pretty low on food that year at home). My nasty teacher said we didn't have time for me to go to the cafeteria (she wanted our class to go sit outside and eat), and when I started crying told me I was being a baby and a pain. This was a private school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I went to a rough Junior High, and there was an attempt by a bully to relieve me of my lunch money early in my first year (7th grade). I knew giving up the money would mean a year of hell, so I popped the bully in the mouth. And no one bothered me again. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticamethyst Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, had one try but she lost that disagreement and it never happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secular_mom Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, never. But even though we were dirt poor my mother always packed an extra drink in my lunchbox when I took my own lunch because there was a girl I ate lunch with who never had a drink. She always sent extra money for recess too. As I got older and had an allowance that I kept with me and I brought lunch money and break money several of the 'well-to-do' kids would be begging for lunch money. So my friends and I always fell for it and gave them fifty cents here, a dollar there. The kids in my school always looked out for each other though. If one kid started being mean to another we'd all gang up and tell them to knock it off (we didn't threaten them with harm, just threatened to tell the teacher); if anyone needed help we all did what we could to help (we took turns carrying book bags for kids with broken legs- for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I voted other. We didn't buy lunches at school - we brought them from home. When they did experiment with hot lunches, parents paid in advance along with tuition (a private school.) A couple of times, my lunch mysteriously disappeared, but I later found it in the fridge at home:) I did have my notes for a speech stolen right before I had to give it. I searched everywhere. The teacher made me give the speech anyway, so I had to do it from my memory and my rough outline. Gee, after I finished my speech, the notecards mysteriously turned up - on my desk. Yeah, somebody took 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 I voted other. We were only allowed to buy lunch once a year on our birthday, so it was a huge deal for me. When I turned 10, I was SO excited to get my hot lunch (we were pretty low on food that year at home). My nasty teacher said we didn't have time for me to go to the cafeteria (she wanted our class to go sit outside and eat), and when I started crying told me I was being a baby and a pain. This was a private school. How horrible!! :grouphug: I went to a rough Junior High, and there was an attempt by a bully to relieve me of my lunch money early in my first year (7th grade). I knew giving up the money would mean a year of hell, so I popped the bully in the mouth. And no one bothered me again. Bill Nowadays, you'd get the "zero tolerance for violence" speech and get suspended. I did have my notes for a speech stolen right before I had to give it. I searched everywhere. The teacher made me give the speech anyway, so I had to do it from my memory and my rough outline. Gee, after I finished my speech, the notecards mysteriously turned up - on my desk. Yeah, somebody took 'em. That is just SO RUDE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Lynn Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Mine was never stolen, but I rarely ever bought my lunch. I went to a small Christian school and wasn't ever worried about it. My older sister went to public school through 7th grade. She did have money stolen, water poured on her seat right before she sat down and a small group of bullying girls. That prompted our move to the Christian school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Not stolen, but we always had $1 and lunch cost 80 cents. There were two boys in the class that would go around and collect the extra 20 cents from everyone, and most of us were too scared to say no. So I voted "other". I was also bullied into giving answers (cheating for others during tests). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I was in public school for 12.5 years (did public K for half the year) and never had anything stolen.I don't recall having things stolen at school (maybe a cool pencil here and there). I have had things stolen from me several times on the job! I have also experienced ethnic bullying in the lunchroom on the job. The minority (me, of course) never (or was last) got to use the microwaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 (edited) YES! In elementary school as early as 3rd grade all through to high school. I went to some of the worst schools in Miami. It was so bad that when i saw one of the worst schools in Nashville, I envied the students and wished I had gone to a school like that. I edited to say that I wasn't bullied out of the money. It was always stolen out of my bag. And they were pretty sneaky too. I could not figure out how they got to it. In elementary and middle school it was because I was carless and that is when I never let my bag out of my sight. But in high school, my bag was in my sight and my money was still stolen. I stopped putting it in my bag and I put it in my pocket. Problem solved. Edited November 20, 2009 by Peri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn in OH Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 In elementary school we had lunch tickets. Pretty hard to steal. On the occasions I bought my lunch I kept in my pocket until time to hand it in. I usually brought my own lunch though. And some boy at our bus stop when I was in 2nd grade used to kick my Secret Of Nimh lunch box. In middle school I was "popular" (ha-ha) so no one would have dared steal my lunch money. In high school, no one did that sort of thing, at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom3tn Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Well, I never took money for lunch. I didn't want to eat the yucky cafeteria food. :D I voted no, though, because I don't recall ever having anything stolen from me at school... and I did go to a pretty rough school. I was either well-liked or lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Nowadays, you'd get the "zero tolerance for violence" speech and get suspended. You are very likely right. Times have changed. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I always took my lunch. Everybody knew what was in my lunch bag - 2 slices of Wonder bread (or a plain hamburger bun if we were out of bread) and 10 saltines with crunchy peanut butter between them. Nobody wanted my lunch. One time my lockermate and I ended up with each other's lunch bags. Her lunch bag had nothing but candy in it. She was quite disappointed with mine. Her lunch period was before mine. Did anybody else have lockermates? In elementary and middle school, all lockers were for 2 kids each. In high school, there were 4 kids/locker. After my books got stolen from my locker several times in high school, I refused to use it any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Other. I was never sent to school with lunch money. ~shrug~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex-mex Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Heck, I was the poor kid with free lunch (tickets) and sold them to the other kids for a tidy profit. $$$ :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Sherry Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, I never had my lunch money stolen. When my Dad was sick with leukemia and I had outgrown my coat some of our relatives purchased a new coat for me. But at the High School I walked out of the bathroom leaving it on a coat hook just long enough to walk down the hall and then hurry back to find that it had been taken. It was never turned in to lost and found. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Condessa Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, I almost always brought lunch from home. But there were times when I was pushed, hit, kicked, and insulted. (High school, too--I noticed several people said it didn't happen in high school to them.) When I was in elementary school and I told my mom I was being 'teased', she told me to ignore them. I didn't realize that she didn't understand what was going on from the words I had used. Well, it's hard to ignore people hitting and pushing you, but I really tried hard. I pulled out a book and tried to read and not respond to the bullying. They stole my book and tore it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I think "stealing lunch money" is really more a euphemism for any bullying behavior that occurs. Did I actually have my lunch money stolen? No, I usually brought my lunch. But I was bullied in other ways. At my school, I just had a parent complain to me today that one second grade girl was stealing another 2nd grade girl's lunch every day and this is at a "good" Christian school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I went to boarding school......all meals were paid for with tuition. No lunch money, but the kids at my school weren't mean like that anyway. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 No, never had my lunch money stolen and neither have my kids. I think you see that more on TV. However, I did have my purse stolen when I went to lunch. I was so sad because we had just moved there and I had pictures of all my friends from back home in there. that was life in South Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Nowadays, you'd get the "zero tolerance for violence" speech and get suspended. Or expelled! I never had "lunch money" -- I never wanted to eat at the cafeteria. I brought my own. I was bullied for other things. And where's the pantsing thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 (edited) No, I never had my money stolen. I was on reduced lunch, I only had a quarter for lunch every day. That was fine with me till high school when reduced/free lunch people had to go through a separate line. Then I was so embarrassed to find myself on the opposite side of the cafeteria from most of my friends. So, I just stood in line with them and had a chocolate milkshake for lunch every day because it was only a quarter. Then I spent the rest of lunch period in the library. It was even more mortifying when I would get asked to go to the Burger King across the street for lunch and had to turn it down. I never explained my lack of funds, so I'm pretty sure most of the kids in my classes thought I was stuck up or anti-social. High school is depressing if you have no money. I did have clothes and gym shoes stolen out of my PE locker. Edited November 20, 2009 by Virginia Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 We always took our lunch to school. Only my senior now gets to buy a lunch - the perk of being a senior! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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