Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

If you have kids in school, and don’t qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, you better pay the school lunch bill. Otherwise your child will be stuck eating a cheese sandwich every single day. The school district placed the rule in effect at the beginning of school last year, and the results are immediate and impressive.

At the end of the 2004-05 school year, parents owed $655,000 in unpaid charges for school lunches. After the new rule went into effect, school lunch debt went down more than 90%. Cheapskate parents are still on the hooks for $63K owed from last year, but their children will enjoy more cheese sandwiches beginning Thursday. If only we could deliver those parents to the same fate.

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