Let’s do the math:
2200 students
1900 get FREE lunch
And the remaining 300 get hounded for nickles, dimes and quarters.
heh. True, and ironically it’s the 300 parents that *are* paying for the lunches that are branded as bums. Why worry over the small percentage that does pay? The Feds pay for free/reduced lunches, but if a “payer” doesn’t pay up, then it comes out of local school system’s funds.
Also, the reason the rate of free/reduced lunches is so high is that the federal government distributes a big chunk of educational dollars based on community “need”. So the more kids that are approved for free lunches, the more money the school district gets. My local district begs parents to fill out the free lunch forms if they can get approved, even if the parents fully intend to pay for lunch themselves anyway.