A Rhode Island school district that has faced an uproar over its policy to serve cold sandwiches to students with unpaid cafeteria bills will vote next week on a proposal to reverse it, the superintendent said on Thursday.

Warwick Public Schools unveiled a new policy on Sunday under which students with unpaid lunchroom bills could have only one choice for their meal: a sunflower butter and jelly sandwich. The policy drew the ire of parents and community groups — as well as hundreds of social media users — who said it amounted to “lunch shaming” children for the economic travails of their parents.

“There has to be a better option than to take this out on the kids,” one person wrote on the district’s Facebook page. “What if this is their only meal of the day? What if they get nothing else at home?”

The school district appears to have gotten the message.

Karen Bachus, the chairwoman of the Warwick School Committee, said in a statement posted online Wednesday night that its policy subcommittee had recommended the lunchroom debt decision be reversed.