Is that why the school is constantly trying to get me to fill out one of those forms??? My kids have always packed their lunches--I wouldn't make our dog eat the stuff produced in a school cafeteria--and if I were down to my last dime I wouldn't shame my kids by expecting them to take free lunches. I've told them a thousand times that we neither want nor need it, but they CONSTANTLY pester me about it, going on 17 years now (more than 1 kid in schoolm ya know.)
These are just some of the strings attached to the tax money that comes back to the district after being sent to the Feds.