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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School lunches for students cost money in most places. They’re not free. Parents send money with their kids or otherwise deposit in their kids’ account so they can pay for lunches every day.
Some parents can’t afford regular lunches. We’ve decided that kids going hungry at school is probably not a great policy so most places will allow kids to continue to eat and their account will just go negative. Among poorer students, this simply means their accounts will just build a bunch of debt, which their parents may or may not be held responsible for depending on the situation.
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