Snack purchases at school lunch

[Anonymous]

It is not up to the school to tell the kid no, it is up to you. Tell them what the limit is and have a consequence if they go over. A good one is they run out of money for school lunches. Or have them pay you back. It depends if your concern is the junk or the cost.

[Anonymous]

I let my kids eat treats as long as they are eating actual lunch first. If it’s a money issue, that’s a different story. In that case I would tell the child what the weekly limit is, and if they go over, you bill them. It gets subtracted from their allowance/whatever money they have.

[Anonymous]

Have them repay you when they go over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would complain to the school. That is a bunch of BS that they will bill you. The purchase isn’t authorized. Free school lunch is one thing, but the extras are entirely separate and kids need to either bring money for them or have money in their school account that the parent puts there for them to spend.

The schools can’t find enough people to drive the buses, serve the lunches, and even, teach. But, you need to add lunch line purchase police because you can’t tell your kid “no?”

No one needs to “police” anything. These are extra snacks. If kids don’t have money to buy them or they don’t have money in their account- they don’t get them. How is that hard? I don’t have this problem but it makes zero sense for a school to do this.