Lunch message from Catholic school goes viral

In an e-mail to parents, he wrote, “Our old philosophy was that doing so perpetuates forgetfulness and inconveniences adults for a boy’s memory lapse”.

“Allowing a boy to problem solve is really teaching them how to deal with their future in a very positive way”, said Catholic High School principal, Steve Straessle. She added that her son has actually forgotten his lunch before and managed to figure it out without her help. “In the case of the forgotten lunches, boys can get credit in the cafeteria, borrow money from the front office, or bum some food off a buddy”.

He continued, describing the the rules” other objective – how “soft failures’ are OK too.. A soft failure is not making the team.

Many commenters say today’s youths lack responsibility. “However, many lives have been devastated by the lack thereof”.

KARK-TV in Little Rock learned the school policy has been in place for a few years.

Straessle, who has five children of his own that range in age from 20 to 9, said that the guideline has a secondary objective to teach the importance of “soft failures”.

“I agree kids need responsibility, however no school has the RIGHT to trample on my rights as parent to bring my child what deem fit, within a proper scope, whenever I please”, wrote Becca McKeithen. Jesus would definitely tell your hungry child to “problem solve” his way out of it. Hypocrites’.

It’s the second day of school and senior Patrick Wingfield is already hard at work in class.

“This is a policy that we have had for decades, it’s not a new policy”, Straessle tells Babble. “There are important lessons that can not be found in textbooks, just as important as English and Calculus, and this is one of those”.

Hargett is editor of the Arkansas Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Little Rock.