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    Offers Pour In To Cover Pa. Students' Meal Debt, But School Officials Not Interested

    After district officials threatened to turn children over to foster care for the unpaid amount, a prominent media figure and a corporate CEO offered to settle the debt, but were rebuffed.
    by Bobby Allyn Jul 24, 2019 2 minutes
    Wyoming Valley West High School in Plymouth, Pa. Officials with the school district are not responding to several offers to settle debt students accrued from not paying for cafeteria meals.

    A public school district in Pennsylvania that faced a national outcry after threatening to place children in foster care over unpaid cafeteria debt has received several offers to pay off the entire delinquent meal tab, but school officials do not seem interested.

    In a letter sent on July 9 to about 40 parents in the Wyoming Valley West School District in

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