Just when you thought David Seymour couldn’t end the year being more loathed than he currently is, SURPRISE!
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Funding for lunches at almost 300 schools will be tied to attendance next year.
The change will affect lunches delivered through the so-called internal model.
The model covers schools that make lunches in-house or get them from local providers, rather than relying on external suppliers like the School Lunch Collective contracted by the Government.
Wait – WHAT???
He’s going to punish schools with truancy by cutting off their food?
Ummmm.
I’m no International legal expert, but I’m pretty sure using hunger as a weapon is technically a war crime under the UN.
How will punishing truant children with hunger help them come to school?
This is such a needlessly spiteful policy, but then again, very on brand for ACT.
So on brand I wouldn’t be surprised if ACT release an election advert using crying hungry children begging on social media while Brooke Van Velden walks around kicking any of them asking for more food.
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Seymour Scrooge. Has a certain ring to it.
Not for charter school children though. They’re too precious to starve. They are the bulwark or Western Civilization. It all sits on their dear wee shoulders.
If the child is not at school they would not get the meal so why make it .If it effects the whole school those doing the right think may put pressure on others to send their children as required. The poverty trap only has one way out and that is education.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch/food-poisoning-warning-issued-after-christchurch-school-children-served-mouldy-lunches/G7AWAIZ46ZD7LDVNBVC7JISASY/
Fuck off Trevor . Seymour fucked up a very successful scheme. Admit it you tosser.
‘Doing the right think ‘ is a perfect example of Orwellian ‘Newspeak’.
Come on Trevor – try ‘ doing the left think, ‘ instead of always ‘doing the wrong think.’
RESTORE STATE SOCIALISM IN AOTEAROA! DESTROY CAPITALISM! (Do the correct think).
Not only is this a miserly idea it would be a bureaucratic nightmare and I thought old Scroogy Seymour was against all that wasted money and too many people administering things. Okay for his charter schools, ministry of regulations and other panels, all to be set up by him, but not for anything else.
Paying schools for lunches for the children that don’t show up seems to be Soviet Union-level wasteful bureaucracy.