Nat/act/nzf 2023

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If parents who cannot/do not feed their kids just ended up "punishing" their own kids, that would be one issue. Hungry/malnourished kids often end up with behavioural issues, and poor school performance. So other kids are affected and eventually the wider society too.

Correct, so the parents of these malnourised kids should be targeted and told to buck up their ideas.

[Baa_Baa]

Correct, so the parents of these malnourised kids should be targeted and told to buck up their ideas.

What if the parent(s) don't have the money or the means, or jobs to earn the money, to feed their kids? That's the problem 'school lunches' is trying to fix, it's not every school, it's for the deprived schools.

We can't fix the problem of bringing more and more children into deprived families, or improve parenting to 'buck up their ideas' by feeding them at school, all we can fix is that they go to school, are fed and educated, hopefully breaking the cycle of deprivation.

I suggest all the hardliners amongst us who don't have any real sense of the deprivation that exists in NZ, and what it means to family and community, regardless of race, take a roady around the East Cape, carry on to Northland, travel back down the west coast of Northland to Dargaville etc. And open your eyes to reality.

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What if the parent(s) don't have the money or the means, or jobs to earn the money, to feed their kids? That's the problem 'school lunches' is trying to fix, it's not every school, it's for the deprived schools.

We can't fix the problem of bringing more and more children into deprived families, or improve parenting to 'buck up their ideas' by feeding them at school, all we can fix is that they go to school, are fed and educated, hopefully breaking the cycle of deprivation.

I suggest all the hardliners amongst us who don't have any real sense of the deprivation that exists in NZ, and what it means to family and community, regardless of race, take a roady around the East Cape, carry on to Northland, travel back down the west coast of Northland to Dargaville etc. And open your eyes to reality.

For right or wrong most of this so called hardship is self inflicted. It has to do with lifestyle choices etc. Priorities and responsibility. Something that has sadly been lacking for quite a while now. Maybe those things should be taught in our schools rather than some of the other rubbish.

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