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Has David Seymour ‘saved’ school lunches – or enshittified them? (thespinoff.co.nz)

submitted 1 month ago by TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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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.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

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.