Pennsylvania school district that threatened to have children placed in foster care if their parents' didn't pay outstanding lunch tabs has now accepted a businessman's offer to cover the cost after initially rejecting the offer.
A Pennsylvania school district that threatened to have children placed in foster care if their parents' didn't pay outstanding lunch tabs has now accepted a businessman's offer to cover the cost after initially rejecting the offer.
But the district's school board president, Joseph Mazur, initially refused the proposition in a telephone conversation on Monday, arguing that the lunch money is owed by parents who can afford to pay, according to Carmichael's spokesman Aren Platt. Mazur, on behalf of the school board, also"sincerely" apologized for the tone of the letter sent to parents regarding the lunch debt.
In a letter sent to local newspapers on Monday and later provided to ABC News, Carmichael said he felt he"had to do something" to help because he received free meals at school as a child when his mother struggled to make ends meet.
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