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[quote=Anonymous]Every child in DCPS has a "lunch account". It's recorded under their student ID number. You can now set up an access to pay for the negative balance or not, place money on the balance or not. There are a whole host of reasons you may have a (negative) balance towards your child's "account" (i.e. booked to your child's ID), including mistakes and mishaps. Yes, indeed could be that your child's lunch was dropped and someone graciously replaced it with the school lunch, could be a bagged lunch for a field trip. Could be that your child decided to get in the lunch line one day and try. Or, as meals are served family style in PreK classrooms, maybe your child reached for the bowl of something she/he wanted to try or felt left out of. Wouldn't that be a totally okay reason to pay for lunch? Could be a mistake, taking one for another, punching in the wrong number etc. I would ask the teacher first to rule out the sort of mishaps others mentioned. And then check with the lunch staff to see what may have happened. If the balance is minor, then why not just pay up and maybe place $20 or so on the balance, NBD as someone else mentioned. There may be a whole host of situations when you might be grateful that there is a balance to draw from. It carries over from year to year. Just make sure you don't have it fed automatically, as those flat fees are exorbitant on small amounts.[/quote]

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