School lunches for school children is, unfortunately, a fact.
There has been considerable comment on these lunches recently such as this – stolen from Breaking Views.co.nz
This utterance is not a comment on whether the need should be there, nor what should be done to alleviate that need. That is another story, one which should include the observation of a significant number of parents shackled to a frame and flogged mercilessly – but, as noted, that is for another time.
New Zealand now has a situation where children are sent to school with no sustenance, their adult minders knowing the taxpayer will step in and feed them.
Those sub-humans (they ain’t “people” and are certainly not “care-givers”), having no skills beyond whining with their hands out, then set about doing just that because, simply, that is their sole legal action.
The slime and their socialist masters constantly report this whinging and whining as truth. Brain dead sheilas (of either sex) lap it up.
Such is life in New Zealand.
I wonder if there is not a way to combine feeding these children with educating them (or at least some of them) while defeating the do-badders mentioned?
At just over 40 years old I became a single parent and, almost simultaneously, had the place I worked at fold under me, making me unemployed.
The event happened just before Xmas so I was faced with about six weeks (initially) with little chance of finding work. To help educate as well as entertain my son, I volunteered at a local wild-life park as a internal tour guide.
While there I started, for no pay, working in the kitchen/restaurant. This work (for the next 12 months) gave me the skills I needed to move on to paid employment.
This blathering has a point: Working with food, knowing food safety and helping feed significant numbers within a budget are damned useful skills to have.
I suggest New Zealand starts working towards building kitchen/classrooms in all schools with a view to that classroom feeding the school by teaching the children the skills needed.
My guess is that this would cost, in the long term, less than just feeding the brats, while imparting the skills involved.
The skills to be gained are not just cooking and food safety but applied mathematics (working budgets) and people skills including dealing with wankers (“I’m not eating that”types) and working out menus, selecting which foods last until used, which foods will actually be eaten etc.
I would combining a garden class as well, again aligned with feeding the children.
These facilities could, of course, also be used for adult education, particularly demonstrating both just how easy food is (at it’s basics) and how much satisfaction and enjoyment can be gained from serving and eating something you helped (the gods do most of the work) to grow.
I personally believe that a large part of why New Zealand has such a large group of under-achievers is because they do not know how to succeed.
The racists and socialists love this, keeping this group in place and using them to destroy New Zealand.
My suggestion, if expanded on by intelligent people (read “right wing liberals) and implemented, could undermine the socialists and create a far better future for the vast majority of those attending school now and those who will attend in the future.
People may smile – at more than just my stupidity.
I gather maraes are good at feeding large numbers and so arranging procurement, execution and delivery.
Haven’t seen any hands up in that arena.