Manteca Unified — under a federal mandate — started allowing students last school year to charge lunches if they didn’t have the money to pay for a meal.Until August of 2016, if a student didn’t qualify for reduced or free meals and lacked the means to pay for lunch they received peanut butter and crackers along with a trip to the garden bar. Most other districts across the country served either a cheese or peanut butter sandwich. That all changed when the federal government said all students had to be served the same meal to avoid “shaming.”