That's interesting. Pennies are legal tender. The school has to accept them as such. I can see why the kids would get in trouble over this, as their actions were to deliberately disrupt lunch, but if I were a lawyer of one of the kids I would probably argue that the fact that the cafeteria workers were not properly equipped to count the coins out in a timely manner which caused others not to be able to eat is irrelevant in this case. Pennies are legal to use as is any other denomination of currency. The school can't legally punish someone for paying for lunch with them.
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