School lunches, child Poverty Action group

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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/

An upmarket lunch costs $8.69?

I guess that doesn't include coffee. Or  a scone. Sheesh, my Wednesday treat, a bacon and egg panini with a flat white costs double that...

But hey, Chris Hipkins didn't make it.

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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/

I'm not altogther certain but I think its at least several years now that I've been saying that ALL kids should given school lunches, regardless of which kind of govt they may be.

I think its something we need to establish clearly with regard to quality etc. etc. & then ring fence it so that no future govt of any stripe can meddle with it again & hungry kids will be fed a good healthy lunch.

And MP's should be given  precisely the same lunch as schoolkids, compulsory.

That would certainly stop the bullying thing that goes on when school lunches are parental income
means tested.

Still, I can't help remembering warm milk. In little bottles. Yuk. I actually have one of those bottles on my kitchen bench. It reminds me that being poor isn't that bad when you can grow your own vegies and cook real food that doesn't taste as awful as that stuff that we all got handed at Normal Intermediate back in the sixties...