Brent's New Class - Get Into Debt!

Comment from a reader on the Brent School cafeteria

Brent Subic's cafeteria has never been run very well. It appears to be bidded out to the cheapest vendor. But the school's policy of letting kids run up debt at the cafeteria and then withholding report cards until that debt is paid is remarkably irresponsible.

The Brent Subic cafeteria allows kids to use their school ID cards to charge food items on credit. This isn't just for lunch. This is for drinks, ice cream, snacks for the entire class, etc. There is no control or check on what the kids buy. To make matters worse, the kids are required to have their ID on them everyday. And since the ID is an un-checked credit card, they require the kids to have an unlimited credit card for use at the cafeteria.

The unscrupulous vendor who runs the cafeteria now is not even making kids use their ID. They just charge the items to the child's name. This is being done without parental knowledge with 1st and 2nd graders! For parents who want to teach their kids about using money responsibly (and eating healthier homemade food than the cafeteria food) this is a very poor lesson indeed.

This cafeteria vendor should be removed for next year's school year and the Brent school administrators should stop this practice of allowing small children to buy on credit.

The Subic Bulletin: Unsecured credit to minors, that's got to be violating some law?