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loganjames: The story said it'd take only $4 million per year to feed all decile 1-4 schools nation wide. In the grand scheme of things that is nothing. Kids can already has 2.2million for this year, surely this is where public / private should be working together. I.e. Fonterra could donate the milk etc.
Not perfect but as said in earlier posts we spend a lot more on less.
loganjames: I.e. Fonterra could donate the milk etc.
Regs:BraaiGuy: OK I'm going to sound blunt ...
But why is it the Schools/Governments problem that the kids don't have lunch?
I blame the parents. There is no excuse for letting your kid go to school with nothing to eat. No excuse. A slice of bread costs how much? A loaf of bread can be bought for $1.80
Sorry I don't buy into this Poverty in NZ nonsense.
of course you can blame the parents, they are absolutely responsible.?
unfortunately, though, the parents will still be poor, alcoholics, gamblers, etc after all the blame and the kids will still go hungry.?
the kids, themselves, don't have any control over their parents or their own situation which is why it might be a good idea to help them out at school...
1080p:Regs:BraaiGuy: OK I'm going to sound blunt ...
But why is it the Schools/Governments problem that the kids don't have lunch?
I blame the parents. There is no excuse for letting your kid go to school with nothing to eat. No excuse. A slice of bread costs how much? A loaf of bread can be bought for $1.80
Sorry I don't buy into this Poverty in NZ nonsense.
of course you can blame the parents, they are absolutely responsible.?
unfortunately, though, the parents will still be poor, alcoholics, gamblers, etc after all the blame and the kids will still go hungry.?
the kids, themselves, don't have any control over their parents or their own situation which is why it might be a good idea to help them out at school...
Nope.
By shifting the responsibility for feeding the children to the school you enable parents who do not care.
1080p:
By shifting the responsibility for feeding the children to the school you enable parents who do not care.
crackrdbycracku: The truth is there are people who have children who are simply incapable of taking care of them. I don't like it but I think we, as in society, have a responsibility to take care of these children.
There are a lot of people here at fault but it isn't the hungry child. Feed the kid first, then try to fix the problem of parents who can't take care of their kids.
CamH: Yes this is a problem, but a problem that needs to be solved by the parents.
If anything is done, I reckon there should be some sort of partially funded school programme where parents pay $2 per day and the school provides some sort of food. Make it compulsory, take it off their benefit or whatever it takes.
Kaos36: I never ate my lunch when i was a kid at school, never. Nor breakfast i just wasn't hungry. Same when at colleage now and then i would have a pie from the tuck shop but hardly i ate all through those years. When my sons went to school they would come home with their lunch still in their bags so i stopped making lunch for them and they use to skipp breakfast. Come dinner time though it was a feast.
networkn: Not eating breakfast or lunch would do your body and mind immeasurable harm in most cases (Plenty of evidence to support this).
Ragnor:networkn: Not eating breakfast or lunch would do your body and mind immeasurable harm in most cases (Plenty of evidence to support this).
Citation needed!
Ragnor:networkn: Not eating breakfast or lunch would do your body and mind immeasurable harm in most cases (Plenty of evidence to support this).
That's conventional wisdom imo, citation needed!
Humans didn't evolve always eating breakfast and lunch, it's just a modern convention.
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