How does the Lunch Money program in Fairfax County work?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if anyone has experience with this... It looks like you can add $$ to a student's account, but I don't understand how it works. Does the student get a card to use at checkout in the lunch line? Do they use their student ID? What if they lose the card? Do they lose all of the $$ that is loaded onto it? I tried calling the school, but no one is working over the summer (at least, no one who could answer these questions).

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Students use their student ID number and punch the code in at the checkout. For younger students (Kindergarten), the teachers handle the codes for each student.

You can add money to the account either directly at the school or pay a service fee (I think it is a little less than $2 per transaction) and use www.mylunchmoney.com

[Anonymous]

Students use their student ID number and punch the code in at the checkout. For younger students (Kindergarten), the teachers handle the codes for each student.

At our school, it's a little different. Each kid gets a 3 PIN that they memorize. The kids memorize it within a week or so, but they can also look it up for the kid if they need to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students use their student ID number and punch the code in at the checkout. For younger students (Kindergarten), the teachers handle the codes for each student.

You can add money to the account either directly at the school or pay a service fee (I think it is a little less than $2 per transaction) and use www.mylunchmoney.com

FCPS has a massive website. Go to the homepage :
http://www.fcps.edu/index.shtml

Look at the big sidebar and see lunch menus.
Click on it and you end up at:
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/food/food_at_school/

Oh yes = the website might not have the fact that schools have cards in slots on walls and students walk into lunch area and pull their own cards. Transportation, IS, finance, food service are the best run departments in FCPS. All the operations functions are smooth compared to academics.

Here is a surprising bit of FCPS trivia. It does not have centralized data on which schools have specific texts and the quantities at each school. The result? The place is like kids making trades for draft picks in fantasy football. I guess one school could have 100 texts stuffed in a closet while another buys 100. Same thing is practiced for stuff like stockpiles of musical instruments?

[Anonymous]

Oh yes = the website might not have the fact that schools have cards in slots on walls and students walk into lunch area and pull their own cards

20:58 here. Not all schools do it the same way. Our school used to have the cards, but 3 years ago they moved to the PIN system, which replaced the cards. The best thing to do is ask at the school's Open House. Walk your kid through the cafeteria line so they will know what to do. Talk to the cafeteria manager about controls (they can flag it so that a PB allergic kid can't get a PB sandwich, they can't get a dessert, they can get as much as they want, etc.)