The Board of Education of Woodbridge Township School District has been plagued with financial issues as the school year concludes. The board has used most of its state funding before the end of the third quarter. Most schools in the district have been short-staffed schools. Now, a new decision was made on March 30th to implement a lunch subscription service.

Students of WHS are to be the first school to have the policy implemented in mid-April. According to an official publication, “Parents will pay for school lunches for their kids via a subscription service, choosing either ad or ad-free tiers. Lunches will come in cleanable containers that will be returned before students leave the cafeteria. Ad-tiered students will be served the same food as ad-free-tiered students, but their containers will not open until they watch a series of ads.”

Results of the Decision

Parents have become outraged, protesting outside Town Hall. According to some parents, this is an unacceptable practice. A parent asked to be anonymous after the school threatened to suspend students whose parents were protesting. The anonymous parent asked rhetorically, “What are they going to do next, keep the good food behind a paywall?”

Oddly enough, roughly about an hour after this interview, the Board of Education would announce a premium school lunch plan. This lunch plan is set to release next school year and feature “actually good food”. Currently, the school lunch menu features sandwiches without bread, an unknown soup, and 5oz of Doritos.

We interviewed a financial literacy teacher who asked to remain anonymous, saying, “I think the real plan is to not remind parents to unsubscribe and take as much money as they can.” Current advertisers for the school lunch include McDonalds, Planet Fitness, and State Farm.

Currently, the drama continues, showing no side prevailing victorious as rumors of a lawsuit begin to surface online.