why should a school waste time, energy and money acting like "collection agencies." take a poor family, take them to court, make them pay costs, and hope for lunch $ - now that really sounds logical? NOT! ya never know what is really behind the story. maybe the kids were provided lunch money? maybe they spent on other things. maybe the school administration needs to butt out! oh, let's just humiliate a kid, try and make him like school now, and force him to control their parents' behaviors. none of it makes it logical sense. just feed the child, stop humiliating the whole family, and deduct it from some overpaid administrator that proposes higher taxes for education.