>>School takes away kids' lunches because of unpaid bill
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>>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-lunches-taken-from-elementary-students-over-negative-accounts-in-salt-lake-city-utah/
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>>I'm 95% capitalist but make room for a few things - one of those being that no kid should go through a school day on an empty stomach. This is pathetic.
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>Hey, we agree on something.
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>Philly has a program in some schools where all kids get the free lunch, rather than figuring out which kids qualified. Some of the problems with the free lunch program are that parents have to apply and that it can be apparent which kids are getting it, which is a big issue especially in high school. In a school where most kids qualify, there's an argument to be made that giving it to all kids is a better choice than hoping parents will apply and kids will use it.
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>http://www.hungercoalition.org/summary-universal-feeding-and-CNR-goals
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>Tamar

I do recall back in the late 1970s where I was attending a middle school where the majority of students were on the free lunch program, and I was one of a handful of students where parents were paying for the lunch. The school administration was always complaining to my parents that because I was one of a handful of students where the parents were paying for lunches. Eventually the problem was "solved" by having me work at the cafeteria -- thus in principle it was OK as I was "working" for lunch (so I wasn't effectively getting a free lunch when I really wouldn't qualify), and no additional paperwork was required by the school staff to have my parents pay for my lunches. Similar deals were struck with parents of other children of parents that were too "well off" by having the kids "work" as office aides or similar tasks.