On organizing, I bow to your greater knowledge hastily and without a qualm - but from what I understood, it wasn't so much "tracking down" as it was a last minute "scanning their card, seeing it was in the red, and handing them a different tray." And, the thought of taking as many parents as it takes to rack up $300,000 of debt in lunch money - at 3 bucks a day, I'll guess less than a hundred bucks each - to court, well, it doesn't sound either cost-effective or even doable. I think one of the sources of frustration behind *all* the reactions is that there doesn't seem to be a solution which is ....