Has David Seymour ‘saved’ school lunches – or enshittified them?
Has David Seymour ‘saved’ school lunches – or enshittified them?
The new, cheaper scheme shifts costs from central government to schools – and risks damaging the very thing that makes the programme work.
Write up from my old mate Max Rashbrooke on the success of the school lunch program, and the likely impacts of the cuts to the program from the National-Act-NZ First government.
Worth noting that this government has railed against supposed falling achievement rates*, yet are cutting one of the most effective interventions that improves outcomes for lowest achievers.
Switching from cooking in schools to heat & eat is extremely dumb, especially if they're in microwave packaged individual portions - microwaving doesn't scale well.
*Previous discussion on what the maths curriculum changes are, and how they're responding to a "crisis" that doesn't really exist: https://lemmy.nz/post/14030275 https://archive.is/YK9gk
How about both.
He saved them in the sense that they were on the chopping block before the public backlash.
But; now they are a much worse version of what they used to be.