Ay mine, it's £1.70 paid in cash on the day and hande over as they collect thier lumch. This means children from 7yo have to look after the money until lunchtime, including taking it out in the playground with them if they're on the second sitting.
DS1 (and many others) often lose their money. The school office will replace it so they can have lunch and them I get a curt note about making sure my child always has sufficient dinner money. or a packed lunch as the office cannot keep lending money and I must reimbirse them asap...
They know the children lose it because the actually joke about hoe rich anyone who could be bother to open the drain in the playground would be.
I have a number of issues with this
-It's bad enough paying for lunch once, without doing it twice
-I am worried about where the money goes, i.e. is it "lost" or stolen, although DS is admanat he's lost it
-I always put it in a sealed envelope with his name on (in line with the schools requests) so if it is lost, it should turn up. Last time apparently he had it in his shirt pocket in the playground and it "must have fallen out when he was running"
-Finding the cash daily is a pin and there must be a better way to do this.
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How does your DC's Junior school collect dinner money?
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