She Used To Work In A School Cafeteria. But Then The School Made Her Do Something That Made Her Sick To Her Stomach, So She Quit

Stacy Koltiska has spent the past two years working in the cafeterias of Canon-McMillan School District, distributing hot lunches to elementary school students. It is, she acknowledges, “hot and hard work,” but she “love[s] the joy and excitement the younger children [get] from something as simple as a school lunch.”

Just last week however, Koltiska decided to quit her job.

A new rule in the school district mandated her to take away two children’s hot lunches because their parents had more than $25 overdue on their children’s lunch payments.

Koltiska remembered the moment clearly. She had to take away a hot lunch and hand the child, instead, a cheese sandwich. The sandwich was just “one piece of cheese on bread. This wasn’t even toasted.” She added, “I will never forget the look on his face and then his eyes welled up with tears.”

After this incident, Koltiska left her job, investigated further into the school district rules, and shared what she learned on Facebook.

Her post is angry and clearly reveals her disgust with the new policies that require students from kindergarten to 6^th grade to get their hot lunches replaced with pathetic cheese sandwiches because of their parents’ failure to pay for their lunch. She’s equally frustrated that students from 7^th to 12^th grade just have their lunches taken away, without any replacement.

For Koltiska, as someone who can see all the good, hot lunches the school throws away at the end of each school day, these new policies are sickening.

Koltiska’s post has since been shared almost 6,000 times and has attracted the attention of the superintendent of Canon-McMillan School District, Matthew Daniels. Daniels assures that “sham[ing] or embarrass[ing] a child” had never been the district’s intention when enforcing the rule.

They’d simply been looking for a way to get parents to pay their children’s lunch money.

Thanks to Koltiska’s post, the backlog of over 300 parents who owed lunch money has now dropped down to less than 70.

With any luck, this number will soon hit zero.

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