New School Lunch Charge Policy Introduced
The policy would encourage parents to prepay school lunches and repay charged lunch balances in a timely fashion.
At Tuesday night's meeting, School Committee members presented the first reading of the Coventry School District's updated school lunch charge policy. Finance Director Robin Pelletier explained to the committee, administrators and parents present that there has been an increasing trend of children at the elementary school level throwing away the meals sent with them by their parents and charging hot lunches served by ARAMARK. Because of this trend, the school department is mailing letters home to the parents of every student that has a balance of $10 or more - a task that is costing the district about $100 a month in postage. "Any deficit hits the bottom line in our lunch budget," said Pelletier. She went on to explain that along with …
Kim Paiva
8:24 am on Thursday, May 24, 2012
I know at Blackrock you can prepay for free by sending a check or cash in with your child...tell the lunch person to add the change to your account. Then you can simply check your balance online...or be alerted once the account gets to a certain level. I won't pay the fee! more ›