And a secondary school in south east England is reportedly charging more than $2.50 to eat their own lunch at school, parents told the country's teachers union.
The union, NASUWT, conducted a recent survey of parents that revealed many are being charged by public schools for allowing children to eat their home-made lunches at school, though most charge between about 9 and 50 cents per day, the Telegraph reports.
"Now just sitting in a dining hall and unwrapping your sandwiches is considered to be an optional extra, it's disgraceful," union deputy general secretary Patrick Roach told the news site. "Parents should be appalled in just the same way that we're appalled."
NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said "schools are justifying it by saying, 'you're having to be supervised to eat your lunch and therefore if you're not having a school meal, you've got to contribute towards that supervision because you'll be in the dining room, sitting there."
Of course, the teachers union blames the situation on a lack of funding for public schools.
Comment: Training exercises and live incidents seem to go hand in hand quite a bit. At any rate, it will surely be more of a security headache to take a Greyhound bus from now on.