The bad news is there are still more than 30% who think it’s the government’s role.
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How much more do these people think the government should do for children?
Who do they think should provide breakfast and dinner on school days and all meals at weekends and in holidays?
Hungry children won’t learn well and the government provides lunches at schools because of that.
However, that doesn’t mean that it’s the government rather than parents who ought to be responsible for feeding children properly.
There’s a lesson here for the media which has done dozens of stories on the school lunch programme, almost all of them negative.
The majority of their listeners, readers and viewers almost certainly don’t share their preoccupation with the issue and do think the responsibility for feeding children is the parents’ not the government’s.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
Hungry children won’t learn well and the government provides lunches at schools because of that.
However, that doesn’t mean that it’s the government rather than parents who ought to be responsible for feeding children properly.
There’s a lesson here for the media which has done dozens of stories on the school lunch programme, almost all of them negative.
The majority of their listeners, readers and viewers almost certainly don’t share their preoccupation with the issue and do think the responsibility for feeding children is the parents’ not the government’s.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
Hopefully most people see the media's preoccupation with lunches as a way of diverting attention from what is important in education. The inconvenient facts that contradict the media's own political stance. That is on one hand the improvements in school attendance and performance, but on the other hand the government's failure to address the propaganda taught, the number of useless non-teaching public servants and the inefficiencies.
What did President Reagan once say? The ten words you should fear the most are:” We are from the government and we’re here to help”
Scrap the free lunches scheme entirely, prosecute parents who send their brats to school hungry for negligence, and watch the problem disappear as if by magic.
You shouldn't be too surprised with the 30%, Ele. Notwithstanding their appallung antics and performance, at least that amount of hardcore punters collectively vote for the Greens, TPM, and Labour.
As Forrest Gump once said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
Any government should do as little as barely necessary.
It results in less debacles and more favorable outcomes.
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