tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post7636859157492551836..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Food in schools - non-culpability creepLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-729150819398182892013-06-02T21:43:56.358+12:002013-06-02T21:43:56.358+12:00You feed kids breakfast because their parent simpl...You feed kids breakfast because their parent simply doesn't care enough to buy a loaf of bread for her kids -and then those kids grow up and have kids and don't buy bread for their kids either -because that's the school's job not theirs. School breakfasts entrench generational parental neglect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-2355284740874510202013-06-01T12:10:17.338+12:002013-06-01T12:10:17.338+12:00This whole blog plus the comments run counter to t...This whole blog plus the comments run counter to the article in Saturday's (01 June) Herald about the work of Steve Farrelly and also the evidence that came out of Jamie's School lunches revolution where not only the teachers attested to improved attention and learning in the afternoon session but the school nurse attested to the dramatic reduction in the child sickbay attendance for use of inhalers or for minor sickness during afternoon school.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14451050329012348097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-73263887956486694752013-05-28T20:43:45.939+12:002013-05-28T20:43:45.939+12:00It will be lunches in schools on our dollar next- ...It will be lunches in schools on our dollar next- mark my word!Oswald Bastablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828229103486326473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-65355524332935595712013-05-28T16:23:15.694+12:002013-05-28T16:23:15.694+12:00What I can't stomach is that we have the PM, M...What I can't stomach is that we have the PM, MSD minister and other lumnaries waxing on that they "know" its the parent's responsibility to feed their kids and then doing nothing about it!!!<br /><br />Any kid turns up at school and says they weren't fed by their parent(s), instant notification to CYF to investigate home situation and force, yes force, parent(s) to purchase food, take the damn benefit of them and have a delivery of food sent instead.<br /><br />Once I would have railed against state interference in people's lives like I've just proposed, but there are so many bloody ferals that can't even feed their kids, that I've come round to this way of thinking.<br /><br />It makes me sick that we lack a single politician in this country that won't stand up that most simple principle.CorrectGuynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-53111567437806934462013-05-28T09:25:44.525+12:002013-05-28T09:25:44.525+12:00The ONLY place where food in schools has been show...The ONLY place where food in schools has been shown to make a significant difference to educational outcomes is in third world countries where kids are truly malnourished as opposed to merely hungry. macdoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355791620208619049noreply@blogger.com