what the hell is School Lunch Debt?

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So I’ve come across this piece of news where a so called „Arbys foundation“ payed 1000000$ to schools so that they can pay off their student‘s debts.

Now what I am wondering about, what does that mean exactly? Because what the article implies is that children are being indebted for free school lunches, which seems to lack a lot of nuance and would be illegal if it was true.

Does it simply mean that the schools themselves have to come up to pay, or is it a matter of the city government?

PS: I am German therefore I may have screwed up with the grammar and possibly the vocabulary too.

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As a Canadian this whole thing about school lunches confuses me. No elementary schools around here (BC) have them, kids bring food from home. Same with high school. We had a cafeteria, but I’d say 90% brought their own food from home. Was on school Mid 90s-late 00s.

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