According to the teachers at a teachers blog I’ve read, the teachers are now required to have every child return the free breakfast/lunch form, even if the parents have aleady said that they don’t need or want the program. The parents have to write N/A or something on the form and return it, regardless. Which makes it quite simple for corrupt admins to change the form in order to get the money for children who don’t use the program.
While I don’t doubt that this occurs, and occurs more frequently than we know, the district in which I teach requires all forms returned to avoid law suits. Baby mamas purposely don’t fill out and return the forms so that they can sue when their babies don’t get free meals. They claim that forms have been handed in when in fact they never were. By showing our records, including the N/A forms, it somewhat helps us cover our butts.