29 N.J. Eighth graders get 2 days detention after paying for their lunch in pennies. Hey it is still legal currency ! http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/pennie....2.666113.html
Have people in the school system lost all sense of humor? Just tell the people paying in pennies that they'd need to move to the end of the line. If I worked at the school I'd be laughing my arse off, pretty creative personally....
I can't believe that the parents would stand behind the school's punishment of the students. They cannot immediately change district school board policy (that takes some time ) and punish children for paying for their lunches by any means possible. Joke or no joke, it says more about the school than it does the students.
I once had an asian teller at a store on a military base tell me she wouldn't accept a two dollar bill because the store "only accepted American money"