December 12, 2016
In what is being lauded as a showing of true holiday cheer, a mystery do-gooder has reportedly settled all delinquent lunch fees at one Pennsylvania elementary school.
According to CBSPittsburgh, a man who asked to remain anonymous recently called the H.W. Good Elementary School in Westmoreland County with an offer to pay its students' outstanding lunch fees.
He also paid the remainder of this month’s lunch dues for one student with a higher balance than the others. Nearly half of the school's students are from "financially struggling families who qualify for free and reduced school lunches," CNN reports.
When all was said and done, the secret Santa reportedly wrote out a check for more than $900 to the school, covering the lunch balances of 44 students, The Huffington Post said.
One of the more magical parts of the story, though, is that the do-gooder told the school's principal that he got the idea from another person who had previously paid the outstanding lunch fees for students in a nearby school, and he said he wanted to pass it on.
