I was poking around the USDA website and located some interesting information related to the refusal of school meals. Of particular concern are the very first and very last sentences of the two paragraphs quoted here - "Schools must always provide meals to preprimary and younger primary students or to students with disabilities that may make them unable to take full responsibility for their meal tickets. The school may also, at its option make appropriate alternate meal arrangements, such as accompanying the child through the line, in lieu of actually issuing a replacement ticket. While we recommend that schools adopt a similar policy for children who pay the full price for their meals, they are not required to do so. However, if the school does not have a uniform policy for all children, it must take care to ensure that needy children are not overtly identified because of the replacements or arrangements." I'm no lawyer but isn't providing select students cheese sandwiches "overtly" identifying them as needy? UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE This appears to be USDA "guidance" not necessarily a law, however if there is a federal law that contains this language then ALL states that provide cheese or peanut butter sandwiches may be violating that overt identification portion of the law. I am so not looking forward to hunting down a specific federal law associated with this but I will do so if necessary, I'm in this for the long haul.