Week 4 of corporate slop
Ugh.
Week four and the corporate slop is getting worse!
‘It’s pretty bad, I hate it’: Hundreds of school lunches going uneaten
Another day, another Pita Pit delivery at Massey Primary School in West Auckland.
“That was exciting the first day it turned up for our students, but I think naturally none of us eat the same thing for lunch seven days in a row, the novelty is wearing off,” said school administrator Karen.
It was supposed to be a temporary stop-gap whilst the government got on top of its revamped school lunch programme but today fed-up students had had enough and over 350 meals were left untouched.
It is her job to liaise with the School Lunch Collective, the organisation in charge of the revamped government scheme, but she and Principal Bruce Barnes are not having much luck.
When it was uneaten lunches under Labour, the ZB Redneck Trolls be screaming, ‘waste of taxpayers money’.
Now it’s uneaten corporate slop under National and the ZB Redneck Trolls be screaming, ‘ungrateful fucks can go hungry’.
Those charming ZB Redneck Trolls.
The Right fundamentally blame parents for not feeding their children when it’s the Rights Free Market neoliberalism that is impoverishing those parents in first place!
This cost cutting measure of feeding our kids using zero love with the cheapest provider is a mutilation of social policy and we should all be ashamed of it…
NZ’s starving students: Hungry kids trailing peers by up to four years in maths, science
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- A major new analysis examining food poverty and academic achievement finds hungry students are trailing their better-off peers in key subjects like maths and science.
- That pattern held even when the researchers adjusted for socio-economic factors – and had not expected it to be so large.
- As the Government’s newly revamped lunches in schools programme starts, the study authors say it needs to be doubled to reach more students.
Kiwi kids going hungry at school are ending up years behind peers in key subjects, reveals a new analysis that also ranks New Zealand poorly for food poverty.
The health researchers behind the just-published analysis argue the Government needs to double the number of children served by its newly revamped lunches in schools scheme.
It’s long been known that hungry students struggle to learn: food poverty has been cited as a big barrier in New Zealand’s scoring under the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
But a comparison between that and two other global datasets has allowed a team of researchers to look at the link in greater depth. After analysing food insecurity levels with subject-specific scores, the team revealed a stark trend.
David Seymour’s 3 Buck Chuck is NOT the solution to hungry kids failing educationally at school…
Up to 2000 people could lose jobs over school lunch changes
Up to 2000 people could lose their jobs as a result of the government’s change to the school lunchesfunding model.
Currently up to 156 school lunch suppliers made up of businesses and local trusts feed their school communities under the Ka Ora, Ka Ako healthy lunches programme.
The Ministry of Education says 75 of those provider contracts will end on 24 December after a decision to partner with the School Lunch Collective – run by international company Compass Group.
One supplier, Trust House, will have to let go all 47 people employed to run the programme because it was blindsided by the decision and thought its contracts had been extended to 2026.
…As The Daily Blog pointed out right from the beginning, the real story here was always the corporate welfare ACT was prepared to give an enormous corporation with a terrible reputation for food quality at the cost of local suppliers…
Exactly.
The food is now processed shit from corporations with appalling track record in food service provision…
We know that the largest school lunch providers, Libelle and Compass, have lost significant numbers of schools in the past year, due to performance issues – with schools opting to go with alternative providers.
…plus we are killing off 75 local food suppliers at a time when we have rising unemployment…
‘Massive blow’: 75 suppliers lose school lunch contracts
Thousands of jobs are on the line as 75 suppliers will lose their school lunch contracts at the end of the year.A consortium led by global catering giant Compass Group won the contract to deliver free school lunches to 176,000 students under a new model.The consortium, which includes Libelle and Gilmours, will deliver lunches or ingredients to schools at $3 a pop, down from up to $8.69 under the current model.Suppliers who have missed out on the contract say the new model is a “massive blow” to their business.
…which in turn kills off the local element of the school food programme, the ability for parents to help out and become engaged, the use of local farms and food grown at school as part of the process.
You know, all the community element that makes this programme so important.
What we have had replaced is shit food from corporations with shit records at providing food.
David Seymour has managed to take a great policy and fuck it up.
The greatest audacity here?
We’ve had to cut these food programmes because this Government needed $2.9billion for Landlords tax loopholes.
We took out of the mouth of children to put into the pockets of the rich.
Our children, living in a land of milk and honey, deserve better than this!
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While the original scheme was a bit generous the new is a disaster. It is a sad indictment of today’s parents that the state needs to feed their children but it is a reality so it needs to be a good meal that keeps them coming back for more which means they need to be in school to get it. The current supply is rubbish but what could you expect for $3 . Seymour needs to swallow his pride and make sure either he goes back to the original suppliers or makes the current supplier up their game and pay more .
You almost got it right Trevor, here is what you should have written…
“It is a sad indictment of today’s neoliberal policy settings that the state needs to feed their children but it is a reality so it needs to be a good meal that keeps them coming back for more which means they need to be in school to get it.”
You are welcome.
It is not a sad indictment of today’s parents but of our society. If you are paying half of more of your salary for rent then there is little wonder that you cannot feed your children. Is it every second Pacific Islanders parents who are to blame that one in every two children in the PI community go hungry. No of course not how many jobs do two parents need to have to feed their kids. The blame is squarely on politicians of both colours who have allowed this to happen.
Seymour is a bloody disgrace.
I fail to understand why some oarents have multiple children when common sense says you cannot afford to bring them up and provide a good life for them. I realise circumstances change but many seem to have more children when they are already struggling.
It is not a right to have children if you know they cannot be supported by the parents.
This is a classic case of ” If it is not broken, do not fix it.’
School lunch programmes, left to schools and local communities, working fine.
Then Scrooge Seymour first says schools should not feed children, then realises, this is a chance for a backhander to his mates if he gets them a contract.
Why could the prick not leave well alone.
And guess what…to make things worse it has become apparent according to a number of Principals that the cook/chill health hazard slops also incur air miles as some trays are shipped twice from production to destinations via plane!
Slops are a health hazard due to the production method and insecure packaging-a number of reports of broken seals upon delivery.
It look like those Watties microwaveable meals. Seymour should have just ordered those in bulk from watties.
However, I personally wouldnt mind the meal pictured.
This is another reason why you don’t listen to that little prick Seymour. You can see his efforts to remove regulations giving the same outcome. Pay for a service and get ripped off. It’s apparently so expensive to provide halal food they have to add a side of ham. F’ing idiots