(CNN) School officials and a food service company want to rehire a lunchroom employee who was fired for allowing a student in New Hampshire to take food without paying.

But the former worker says she won't take their offer.

"They're not doing it for me, they are doing it to save face," said Bonnie Kimball, the former lunchroom employee.

Kimball was fired in April after a student at Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan, New Hampshire, told her he didn't have money to pay for the items in his lunch tray. She says she let him take the food for free and the boy paid his $8 lunch tab the next morning.

In a statement Friday, the company said it decided to rehire Kimball and will be paying her back for the work she missed.

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