re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There is a possibility, and I am leaving room for this, that the district’s claim that the parents are in fact able to pay is true. So while it seems petty of the school district to turn down the offer of some rich dude to pay the bill, OTOH the district may be afraid that indeed able-to-pay parents are just not paying the bills.

If the latter is true, then I don’t know what it says about that community. IIRC, when I went to school I carried my lunch. Then sometime in Jr. High I gave that up for the cafeteria food.

I lived a block away from elementary school, and went home for lunch. Until one day, I went home at first recess, thinking it was lunch already. Mom was surprised, but figured she lost track of time. Until the school called when I didn’t come back from recess. It was the most embarrassing thing ever (up to that point), going back to that classroom. I started carrying lunch soon after.