PARENT ONLINE

HISD has introduced ParentOnline, a Web-based system parents can use to prepay and manage meal purchases.

Using the system parents can:

• avoid the misplacement or misspending of lunch money by prepaying for meals with a credit card.
• receive e-mails when the account balance is low.
• make safe, secure payments anytime from any computer with Internet access.

Soon the service will give parents the ability to restrict the sale of foods they don't want their children to have.

To open your ParentOnline account, go to www.parentonline.net. The system will ask for a user name and password, the name of your child's school, and his or her student ID number.

Information from: HISD Today, Fall 2008.