Mayor Bloomberg raised the possibility yesterday that cash-strapped schools would cut off lunch to high schools students whose parents are behind in their food bills.
“It may be we get to that. The first thing is let’s try to get the parents to pay,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.
A mayoral aide said there are no plans to take that step now, even though parents stiffed the schools out of $7 million in lunch fees last year.
Bloomberg said he wants to give the parents a chance to make good before calling on bill collectors.
“We want to keep this between the families and the schools and we don’t want to use collection agencies,” the mayor said.