I could be wrong in what I have read on it, but that is what I have read.
If so, she was in the right. But the tone of her article leads me to believe she simply chose to disobey the school’s policy because she believed it was right to do so.
It might very well be less expensive to just give free meals to all rather than to track who pays and who doesn’t. But somebody can run those numbers. Before we change a policy we need to talk numbers.