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A Georgia middle school honor student received a 10 day in-school suspension for using a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for his lunch. His dad gave him the money and was not aware that it was counterfeit. Though the parents filed a police report and stated that they received the bill in a transaction at a fast-food restaurant, the school says that because the child was in possession of the counterfeit bill it is a violation of their honor code.
Perhaps there is more to this story (though I don't think there is), but this seems like an unduly harsh punishment for an unknowing mistake.
Keep him home for 10 days and sue the school district. Let him pay video games and have a heck lot of fun. He is gaining nothing by being in school anyway aside from socializing. Let’s be honest: school beyond abcs or 123s is just a place where kids are fed biased and often useless information (sure knowing about the sack of Rome in the 400s or Dickens is going to help with life and career endeavors, yeah right) and programming kids with a thought process so all kids are boxed in and think the same way. It is an excuse so worthless teachers with literature and math degrees can have a job.
I am being serious and I wasn't refering to Monopoly money. That is just being obtuse. What I meant and obviously went over your head was that texture might be off or the face might be off. There are A LOT of small details that if you look, maybe you'd see a bill is counterfeit. Obviously there was enough for the lunchlady knew it was off and the child got in trouble for something that someone should have realized at some point.
The lunch lady didn’t recognize it as counterfeit. The only reason she knew is because she swiped it with a pen. Something she’s probably been told to do with all $20s.
The child got the money from the parents. When I was a kid I never thought to check to see if money my parents gave me was real. Even his parents did not check as I suspect many people do not yet some wants to hold this kid to a higher standard. As has been pointed out, the lunch lady knew because she used the pen so this clearly was a good counterfeit.
Suspending him just because he had the money makes no sense if they had no past history with this child especially when reasonable explanations were given.
This story stinks to high Hell. A lot of us have unknowingly passed a bad bill, they are all over the place these days. I have made a deposit and they called me later from the bank and told me I had a bad bill in the mix. Every few months, we get a call from out bank at work, and they tell us our deposit had a bad $20 or $100 bill in last nights deposit, and WE SWIPE WITH THE PENS. Sometimes even the pen does not work.
I called that school and left a voice message for the principal, saying I thought what they did to that young man was wrong and inexcusable. He did nothing wrong, how was he or his dad supposed to know they got a bad bill? He could have gotten it as change at some store, and would have no way to know...…..none of us use a pen on every bill we get...…..I never check any of mine, why would I ?
I know schools need to have rules, but this is absolutely nuts.
The kid did indeed pass the bill, that's not even questionable. He's absolutely "guilty" of that act.
Duh.
I’m also guilty of passing a bill this morning, it just so happened it wasn’t counterfeit. Or maybe it was and no one caught it. I’m 41 years old and I don’t know how to spot a fake.
I’m also guilty of passing a bill this morning, it just so happened it wasn’t counterfeit. Or maybe it was and no one caught it. I’m 41 years old and I don’t know how to spot a fake.
I spoke to a business owner, who said he'd gotten counterfeits from a bank. That's a bit surprising. But they say, that most counterfeits distinguish themselves by the finer precision of their print. Most come from North Korea; Customs officials have found entire containers full of them, coming in.
If it is blatant countefeit, yes. What kind of kid hasn't seen a $20 and various version by the time they are 12? I mean if they don't recognize it, that is a different story altogether. But most know what 20s should look like. I know from being a cashier that you do have people either knowingly or unknowingly scam the cashier with countfeits. I hope it was the unknowingly but this will teach child and parent a lesson.
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Originally Posted by TaxPhd
The kid did indeed pass the bill, that's not even questionable. He's absolutely "guilty" of that act.
Most cashiers also have trace amounts of cocaine on their hands too, from handling money, especially those rolled up tight bills people would hand me and I'd have to unroll to put in the register.
The thing is with using counterfeit tender, places don't know if you are using it for bad means or got it by accident and it would be easy to lie about it if you used it. Like if I used a counterfeit $20 myself, all I had to do is lie and say"Oh I got that from the last cashier I went to" and I could get off. For a school to allow lying to get a student off is asking for trouble.
True. But the first thing anyone should do when they get a counterfeit bill is call the feds. Let them figure out whose story has merit and whose doesn't. That's their job.
If the Feds discover that the kid did know, suspend him then. Give him double time for passing counterfeit bills plus lying about it. The instant justice craze of firing or suspending at the first suggestion of impropriety without any investigation is getting out of hand.
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