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Many many years ago, I was partly involved in organising free lunches at a local school. The school was in a very poor area, the kids were coming to school hungry and we all know that hungry kids don’t learn.
There were bakeries around that used to send the unsold filled rolls to the local piggery and no, there was nothing wrong with the food.
Soon we filled up a large freezer with these filled rolls and started handing the food out 3 times a week.
The problem arose where parents came to expect the food on those days so they made sure that their kids had very little to eat for those days. (Relying on the handouts too much)
So we delivered the food at random days to try to not make the parents too entitled to rely on the free food.
The parents complained that the food sizes weren’t enough, the 3 days weren’t enough and it all went to custard.
Long story short: teach someone to fish rather than give him a bread roll.
These free handouts of food or cash don’t work in the long term, for anyone that’s wondering.
I’m starting to imagine the chaos caused when the Greens get involved, pushing themselves to the front with demands for no meat, no fat, no GM, no sugar, no dairy, no pork, no white bread, no chicken nuggets, no allergy risk, no plastic wrap, no single-use plates, no males serving the food etc etc. By the time the demands have finished the poor wee kids will be eating their pencils.
Thing is the lunches are not free and the government is not paying for them.
The poor old taxpayer is. We feed our kids; why on earth should we have to feed yours as well?
Schools now have a game called the “$9 Challenge”
The challenge is to create a lunch worth $9. No more and no less, that is gluten-free, low or zero sugar, vegan, halal-certified, contains no nuts or dairy products, organic and ethically sourced. To be delivered to the school on bicycles in non bleached, recycled, fully biodegradable, zero carbon or carbon offset, paper containers or bags
Because you can bet that all the usual lobbyists will come out to suggest pretty much all that. BFD Bingo anyone?
Add glycemic index, keto-friendly, and sustainably sourced to the card.
All the above, and there must be ‘no profit’, from the venture, lest you’ll be accused of ‘Charter School’ crimes, of profiting from education
