Today’s 4th grade lesson on bankruptcy
Nov 5, 2009 Family Funnies, The wonderful world of tweens
The woman in charge of lunch accounts at the elementary school called me the other day. The kids’ lunch accounts were negative. In fact Caleb’s account was almost negative $10. What?!? Really? I could have sworn we just sent lunch money to school with them not that long ago. The lunch lady said, “Well did you know they eat breakfast quite a bit? In fact Caleb eats breakfast almost every day?”
I did not know this. In fact I was shocked by this because as far as I know he eats a bowl of cereal at home every morning before school. He’s not a teenager. He’s only seven. He shouldn’t be so hungry he’s eating two breakfasts every day. I thought I at least had another five years or so before these kids literally ate me out of house and home. But apparently I completely underestimated the appetite of my 7-year-old.
When the kids got home from school that day we had a little sit down with them. We told them it costs a lot of money for them all to eat both breakfast and lunch at school. I said, “You really need to eat breakfast at home. You just tell me what kind of cereal you like and I’ll buy it for you. Plus we have flavored oatmeal if you want some of that too.” [Cause I think we all know I'm not getting up at 7am to make bacon and eggs.]
Lee got all serious and he said, “You know what eating breakfast at school leads to, right?”
Without skipping a beat Spencer said, “Bankruptcy?”
Lee and I burst out laughing. “Um no. I was going to say we’ll start making you take your lunch to school.”
How does a 10-year-old even know what bankruptcy is? What are they teaching kids in school today?
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