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"Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Lilith7 - 04-03-2025
According to our glorious leader - I really can't think why no one has thought of this completely brilliant solution before...
It shows quite clearly just how very out of touch some politicians are with reality.
https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-national/parents-dissatisfied-school-lunch-programme-should-make-sandwich-pm
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Jan - 04-03-2025
He is not alone Jan Tineti in 2022 published several photos of sub standard lunches when her govt was in power yet Labour only sent lunches to one third of all our kiwi kids - so if they couldn’t cope with so few lunches Seymour was obviously over optimistic promising not only all the school kids but pre schoolers
Saddens me kids being used as a political football
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - king1 - 04-03-2025
for context, under labour school enrolments 2023 were 831,038, so a third of that would be 277,000.
Under the coalition...
Quote:According to Ministry of Education data from January 27 this year, 244,144 students and 1014 schools are in Ka Ora Ka Ako, the Healthy School Lunches programme.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360573724/numbers-behind-revamped-school-lunch-scheme
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Oh_hunnihunni - 04-03-2025
I still don't understand why if lunches were so bad under Labour, no one made this kind of fuss. Or made the news.
Maybe they did. I'm old. I forget stuff. I know I'd rather have one of Hipkin's salad buns than one of Seymour brown stew and rice in a plastic pot. But I'm picky like that.
I made a vegie curry for tea tonight. In comparison to the tv1 news pics, mine was positively beautiful. So many colours... Mind you I made a bit much. By Thursday it might be slightly less colourful...
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Lilith7 - 04-03-2025
(04-03-2025, 03:48 PM)Jan Wrote: He is not alone Jan Tineti in 2022 published several photos of sub standard lunches when her govt was in power yet Labour only sent lunches to one third of all our kiwi kids - so if they couldn’t cope with so few lunches Seymour was obviously over optimistic promising not only all the school kids but pre schoolers
Saddens me kids being used as a political football
It might be a refreshing change if our politicians would take a look at the reasons behind so many kids now needing school lunches, when this wasn't the case in the past & set about fixing that.
But since they're mostly wedded to the idiocy of Neo Liberalism, that's unlikely...
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Oh_hunnihunni - 05-03-2025
I would put money on Luxon having made zero school lunches in his entire life.
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - harm_less - 05-03-2025
Interesting approach by the guys at Big Hairy News. Why is our mainstream media not as informed and proactive as this independent media stream?
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Lilith7 - 05-03-2025
(05-03-2025, 05:20 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I would put money on Luxon having made zero school lunches in his entire life.
Yeah, it does seem extremely unlikely.
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Olive - 05-03-2025
(05-03-2025, 05:20 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I would put money on Luxon having made zero school lunches in his entire life.
Well he does have a tradwife. His world view is so narrow and American that I think he sincerely believes that (with the exception of a few bottom-feeders) every child is part of a nuclear family with one breadwinner and one at home to make lunches and shop for matching pyjamas.
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Lilith7 - 05-03-2025
(05-03-2025, 09:16 AM)harm_less Wrote:Interesting approach by the guys at Big Hairy News. Why is our mainstream media not as informed and proactive as this independent media stream?
With luck, someone may just do that.
Bryan Bruce had some interesting comments on the school lunch debacle, too. Pointing out that the number of families experiencing food poverty hasn't decreased under this present govt.
And that Marmite is made by Sanitarium, & that Sanitarium pays no taxes, & that if they & other tax dodgers did pay their taxes then that would amount an estmated one billion dollars..
And if that 1billion was collected then we could manage to provide good quality school lunches similar to those in Sweden & Finland.
These are strangely selfish timnes that we're living through; I hope they're on their way out.
RE: "Parents dissatisfied with school lunches, should make a sandwich"... - Praktica - 05-03-2025
(04-03-2025, 03:48 PM)Jan Wrote: He is not alone Jan Tineti in 2022 published several photos of sub standard lunches when her govt was in power yet Labour only sent lunches to one third of all our kiwi kids - so if they couldn’t cope with so few lunches Seymour was obviously over optimistic promising not only all the school kids but pre schoolers
Saddens me kids being used as a political football
Act can do no wrong, and Labour were villains, eh Jan?