STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – A husband and wife in Stevens Point are paying off all student-lunch debt at Pacelli High School.
Joe and Nancy Roppe saw a post on Facebook inviting people to pay off someone’s school lunch debt and then add $10 to that total. “Instead of paying for coffee for the person behind in the drive-thru, how about paying off school lunch balances?” Joe said.
They decided to take it to heart, and then some. The Roppes wrote a check to Pacelli Catholic Schools to pay off all students’ debts. “Within about a half hour, I wrote the check out, and we brought it over and paid off all the balances,” Joe said, adding the donation was within their budget, totaling over $600.
Roppe says he would have appreciated this kind of help when he was in school. “I grew up in a parochial school from grade 1 to grade 8, and lunch was my favorite subject,” he said.
A representative from Stevens Point Area Schools tells WAOW-TV that the district is in the early development phase of a widespread program where people can help pay off students’ lunch debt online. It could be up and running next year.
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