... something you said in the top line of your response to the OP set me to thinking:
How would it be to require that a child advocacy lawyer be on duty each and every day of the school year to settle silly shite like this? Kids aren't criminals. They are kids, damnit.
If a kid isn't on free and reduced lunches because a parent didn't turn the paperwork back in for whatever reason and decided to just send the lunch money with the kids every day or weekly, and is late and forgets to give them the lunch money, that kid should be able to eat.
There's dozens of scenarios we've heard of over the effing years that leave kids feeling absolutely horrible and defeated, and sometimes even hungry and thirsty. What a cruel place to have to send your kids to school at while you work.
If the school doesn't have the money to pay a child ombudsman in the richest country in the effing world, then have a kind preacher on call who can get to the bottom of incidents like this at a moments notice.
Where was the effing counselor? Another person they can't afford today in our children's schools? We're going backwards! 
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