New Jersey Schools Consider Denying Lunch To Kids Who Owe $20 Or More

“Cutting off kids’ lunches? Ridiculous. Unacceptable. Will get to the bottom of this to make sure it doesn’t happen. We are a community that’s better and smarter than this!” said Cherry Hill Township Council President David Fleisher.

Amid the criticism, school officials clarified their plans, which included giving kids just a tuna sandwich for lunch if they owe at least $10 in debt, and cutting off lunches altogether only after they reach $20 in debt and their parents have been sent two warning letters about the debt that include instructions for signing up for the district’s free and reduced-cost lunch program.

Cherry Hill New Jersey School District wants to keep Americans children, who's parents owe money for school lunch, from getting lunches until their parents pay overdue lunch bills.“The letter encourages parents to reach out to the district to discuss payment options and explains how they can sign up for the free and reduced-price lunch program,” district Superintendent Joseph N. Meloche said in a statement.

Meloche told reporters the problem isn’t kids whose families aren’t able to pay for their lunch — it’s families who, he says, face no hardship and aren’t willing to pay. We can’t help but wonder how closely Meloche is reviewing the financial information he has on each of those families in order to come to that conclusion. Oh, wait, he has no financial information, and he’s making a broad and arbitrary assumption about people’s ability to pay for food for their kids.

No decision by Cherry Hill Board of Education on school lunch debt issue. It looks like they are backing off plan to feed tuna fish sandwiches to students whose parents don't pay lunch bills. They'll be back in Sept. with a new approach.

Free school lunch for everyone. Problem solved. This is such a non issue- or should be. Give every class D a 10% paycut, and feed those kids.

How about they actually go after parents instead of the kids

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