LogFAQs > #913890391

Heres my take on it:

The parents are fully capable of feeding their kids, lets stop pretending like the only meal they eat all day is at school. The majority of the parents feed their kids at home. The problem here is parent laziness, they arent packing them lunches because they arent making time to put them together and they arent giving them lunch money either because while its not that expensive it starts to buildup.

What is happening on the school side is that they see these hungry kids with no money so they feel bad and let them keep getting lunches but keep adding to their tab.

Then furthermore parents ARE getting notified of their children's balance.
The irresponsible ones are avoiding paying because there isnt much you can do to enforce this.
Its the parents actions causing this and is no fault of the child so no reason to keep the kid from going to school. So that is why they are hiring a collection agency to do this job for them.