Student denied lunch on first day of school over 15 cents

ORANGE CITY, FL (WKMG) — A student at University High School said a lack of 15 cents prevented her from getting lunch on her first day of school.

Her mother, Kimberly Aiken, said it happened to her sophomore daughter on Tuesday.

“She puts her food on the tray, gets to the front, gives her number to the cashier, and she says, ‘Well, you owe 15 cents,'” she said. “My daughter said she didn’t have any money, so the cashier took her food.”

Aiken said the cafeteria worker threw away the food, and her daughter spent her first day at school without food.

“That’s the big thing — it’s eat breakfast, lunch, so that they can make sure that they’re doing good on their work,” she said. “But then you starve my child?”

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