School lunches, child Poverty Action group

[king1]

I find the school lunch debate so hypocritical - where was the outrage and headline grabbing by parents and school staff when Labour were only supplying free lunches to approx 30% of our kids - they kept promising to extend it after first introducing the scheme but every year the extension was pushed out further
A link that is very interesting Hipkins admitting ALL kids were not receiving lunch but only 30% were receiving mostly very upmarket lunches costing on average $8.69 -
https://insidegovernment.co.nz/major-mil...programme/

How is this hypocritical Jan? The "outrage" is targeted at the lack of quality of the lunches, nothing to do with how many students are receiving it.  Obviously there wouldn't be much need to supply them to higher socioeconomic areas. Perhaps you could share where labour said ALL kids would receive free meals, I can't see it anywhere...

anyway i've seen the $3 lunch...   $8.69 does not sound excessive, let alone "very upmarket".

Yes there could have been some scope for bulk buying and efficiencies of scale, but Seymour wanted $3 lunches, and that's exactly what got...