lunch tickets

I don't think I've ever mentioned the lunch tickets at St. Michel. To buy lunch at school, you buy lunch tickets, little rectangles of yellowish tagboard that cost around 4.50 euros each, if I remember correctly. On one side they say Lunch Ticket, good for one meal (in French) and have a place for you to write your name and class, the other side is blank. When you get bored and hungry in the period before lunch you whip out your lunch ticket in anticipation and write your name on it, then often, people decorate them. We draw all over them with markers, write notes, fold them, rip them, etc, etc. People put fake names on them and leave messages to the lunch people on them. Often kids pop off the backs of their cell phones and slip their lunch ticket in next to the battery- that way its impossible to loose, you take your cell phone with you everywhere. And as far as I know, no one ever reads them or takes the time to look over them. The man who takes the tickets is focusing on corralling hundreds of hungry kids, he just grabs your ticket and put it in a stack with the others. Then what happens to them?? Do they get thrown away? I think they should be regarded as artwork, cause really, we can get creative with them. I want to make a book filled with them.