Liking your solution, that is a silly bug in the system. I think it's important children can get food and are not shamed for money running out because it's less likely to be their fault.
In my day at secondary school it was pay in cash or if you got 'free school dinners' be outed by queueing to get your free school dinners token each day which meant everyone knew who got free school dinners and there was MUCHO paranoia that the token was not spent by any other child so mega policing on that. Card/other systems eliminate that outing which has been long overdue. Primary was paying weekly and the secretary chasing known annoying disorganised parents (mine) and probably turning a blind eye with school topping up secretly for kids whose families weren't offishul free school meals but were known to be having a hard time. It still outed the school dinner kids cos they didn't hand over cheques or cash for weekly dinners....
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Date: 2016-03-16 12:40 am (UTC)In my day at secondary school it was pay in cash or if you got 'free school dinners' be outed by queueing to get your free school dinners token each day which meant everyone knew who got free school dinners and there was MUCHO paranoia that the token was not spent by any other child so mega policing on that. Card/other systems eliminate that outing which has been long overdue. Primary was paying weekly and the secretary chasing known annoying disorganised parents (mine) and probably turning a blind eye with school topping up secretly for kids whose families weren't offishul free school meals but were known to be having a hard time. It still outed the school dinner kids cos they didn't hand over cheques or cash for weekly dinners....