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Originally Posted by joeysteele

I agree with the move but don't fully agree that free meals will be given regardless of the income of the Parents.
So whether really rich or poor these meals become a right,I would prefer them to be targetted.

I would 'never' stay for school dinners anyway. Ugh.

The problem with that is that young children especially aren't going to understand the importance of eating a meal during the school day and are often to embarrassed to reveal that they are "poor" by claiming their free meal. Considering the cost if a year's schooling for one child (several thousand), this small amount per head on top of that doesn't cost a lot.

that said, i agree about school meals in general, the quality of the food is awful and my own kids will definitely be taking food with them rather than eating that muck, we eat completely unprocessed foods and mainly organic here and I'd not be confident that they wouldn't be being fed the cheapest mass produced foods possible in a school dinner.

The claim that parents can't afford to feed their kids properly really bothers me, too... it's simply not true. Any household can afford to send a child with decent food, every day. It's not expensive really. The only explanation can be that the parents would rather spend the money on something else :/.

This is what also leads to the misconception that benefits levels are too high, "if people can afford x, y, z"... They're NOT too High, theyre at the right level for people to eat healthily and raise healthy children. unfortunately, some "parents" CHOOSE to spend that money selfishly on crap for themselves, and their kids go without, living on nuggets and chips.