School board president threatens to take kids away from families behind on lunch payments; businessman offers to cover it, president says no; bad press ensues, school board changes its tune; school board president says, “IT WASN’T THE INTENTION OF THE DISTRICT TO HARM OR INCONVENIENCE ANY OF THE FAMILIES OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.” The way to put an end to this kind of stuff is, more than just firing these monsters (no “resignations,” please), revoking their pensions. But how exactly would you specify what’s so wrong about this? It’s not an idle question at all — abusively threatening to use state power is a plague, maybe the plague in this country.