I have some really good news, and it involves renewing your car registration. You may have never encountered those two ideas in the same sentence, but in Utah, you can now use that chore to pay off a child’s school lunch debt.
Why would you do that? For starters, lunch debt is out of control. Just this last year we had a running total of $3.8 million in debt, and $1 million in Granite School District alone.
A million dollars in debt is just a number, and numbers are a terrible way to communicate the meaning of a kid sitting in a cafeteria feeling ashamed to eat, or a parent staring at a negative account balance they can’t pay. In a state that prides itself on community and family, that should be unacceptable.
I started the Utah Lunch…