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07/23/2026

Debbie Solsman worked the cafeteria at Denver Place Elementary in Wilmington, Ohio, for 14 years. In February 2017, the Wilmington City School District fired her.

The reason, according to district documents, was failing to account for food sales at her cashier job and providing food without payment.

Solsman told reporters how it happened. When a student's lunch account ran out, the standard fallback was a cheese sandwich. If a kid told her they were still hungry, she would upgrade the meal or slip them extra food, sometimes asking first what they'd had for supper the night before.

When she didn't have the money on her to cover it, she wrote an IOU, dropped it in the cashier's drawer, and paid it off from her next paycheck.

She never denied it. "I'm the one that broke the rule, it's not the district," she said. She thought firing was harsh, but said she'd do the same thing again if given the chance.

The district said students are always given a complete meal regardless of account balance, and that it couldn't discuss an individual employee's termination. Parents weren't buying it, arguing a cheese sandwich isn't enough to get a kid through the day.

The district never reversed the firing. But once the story spread, Solsman didn't stay unemployed for long.

Two other schools called and offered her a job, as a lunch lady.

07/23/2026

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