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Do you know I'm still getting over the Prime Minister's comments yesterday about the school lunch program. Comments he made not just on the mic Hosking Breakfast, but he obviously thought they were so clever that he repeated them in Parliament. He said, quote, if you don't like the lunches, just go make a mar mite sandwich. When he was on with Mike yesterday he added an apple to the menu as well. So the Prime Minister says to those kids going to school hungry, stop you winjin and quite rightly, his comments are being described by the principal of a school in Kiapour today as quote, absolutely disgraceful and I couldn't agree more. Jason Miles is the principal saying this today. He's the principal of Kiapoin North School and he's bang on that talk from the Prime Minister. It is absolutely disgraceful and he says that it just shows that the Prime Minister has had a guts full of the whole thing, which is along the lines of what Chris Hipkins are saying today too, and that's what we'll talk to him about straight after ten. But back to Jason Miles at Kaiapoy North School. Here's what he's saying about Christoph Luxon's comments. He says, quote, he is out of touch with the current iniquities that didn't exist in his time. And Jason Miles is saying today what we all know that kids can't learn when they're hungry. He's saying, when they're hungry, they are easily distracted and they get restless. Imagine trying to teach a hungry kid again. I'll quote him directly. He says, a healthy, nutritious, tasty lunch could be the only substantial meal that child gets for the whole day. And Amma might sandwich and an apple probably okay somedays, But we want to know we're going to get a consistently healthy, nutritious meal for our children so they can learn. And that's the point here. Eh. We can bang on all we like about us going to school when we were kids were just a mar mite sandwich may be a bit fancy on some days with a piece of letters as well, Or we can bang on about going to school with sandwiches, with the old luncheon roll and the stuff with the little bits of red plastic ground. And yes, we did have lunches like that and we did just fine, just like Christopher Luxen did just fine. But here's the difference. We went to school in the morning with some breakfast in our belly and we went home at night to an evening meal. But that seems to be completely lost on the Prime Minister, which is why this principle from Kiapoint North School so today Chiapoint North School. That's why he's saying today that Christopher Luxe's appalling comments showed just out out of touch. Heres Now, last night this thing came through on my social media feed and it was a video that guy you know that the How Too Dad guy, Jordan Watson's his name, and he was fronting this video and it was promoting kids Can. And in the video, he was reading letters that teachers had sent in talking about poverty in their schools, and one of them talked about two siblings at the school and how each of them only turned up every second day, and the tidally got a bit sick of this and went to have a word with the one who was at school, and the kid explained that they had to share a pair of shoes and it was his turn to wear the shoes that day. And that's why he was at school and his sibling wasn't. That's the world that the people working in schools know about. And I know the Prime Minister say he knows about it too, but I don't think he does. He's out of touch. Maybe he hasn't heard about what happened at that school of merchants last week. The lunches arrived and they were so bloom and hot that the plastic had melted. And it wasn't until the kids had been eating them for a bit that they realized they'd been eating plastic. How can someone how can someone be aware of that and then say, oh, if you don't like it, mak a marmte sandwich, it's Charles Dickens stuff. And that's been generous and no wonder. Education and Minister Erica Stanford wanted David Seymour in her office yesterday to explain what the hell's going on. Apparently, though that meeting didn't happen because the caucus schedule didn't allow it. Well, that was the excuse Seymour was trotting up on the news last night. But Erica Stanford. She must have had her head in her hands when she heard the boss banging on about mar Mite sandwiches on the radio and then coming out with the same nonsense in Parliament. And the principle of Kiapoy North School is spot on. Christoph Luxon's comments were absolutely disgraceful and they do sh that when it comes down to it, He's got no idea what life is really like for some kids in our country.

Do you know I'm still getting over the Prime Minister's comments yesterday about the school lunch program. Comments he made not just on the mic Hosking Breakfast, but he obviously thought they were so clever that he repeated them in Parliament. He said, quote, if you don't like the lunches, just go make a mar mite sandwich. When he was on with Mike yesterday he added an apple to the menu as well. So the Prime Minister says to those kids going to school hungry, stop you winjin and quite rightly, his comments are being described by the principal of a school in Kiapour today as quote, absolutely disgraceful and I couldn't agree more. Jason Miles is the principal saying this today. He's the principal of Kiapoin North School and he's bang on that talk from the Prime Minister. It is absolutely disgraceful and he says that it just shows that the Prime Minister has had a guts full of the whole thing, which is along the lines of what Chris Hipkins are saying today too, and that's what we'll talk to him about straight after ten. But back to Jason Miles at Kaiapoy North School. Here's what he's saying about Christoph Luxon's comments. He says, quote, he is out of touch with the current iniquities that didn't exist in his time. And Jason Miles is saying today what we all know that kids can't learn when they're hungry. He's saying, when they're hungry, they are easily distracted and they get restless. Imagine trying to teach a hungry kid again. I'll quote him directly. He says, a healthy, nutritious, tasty lunch could be the only substantial meal that child gets for the whole day. And Amma might sandwich and an apple probably okay somedays, But we want to know we're going to get a consistently healthy, nutritious meal for our children so they can learn. And that's the point here. Eh. We can bang on all we like about us going to school when we were kids were just a mar mite sandwich may be a bit fancy on some days with a piece of letters as well, Or we can bang on about going to school with sandwiches, with the old luncheon roll and the stuff with the little bits of red plastic ground. And yes, we did have lunches like that and we did just fine, just like Christopher Luxen did just fine. But here's the difference. We went to school in the morning with some breakfast in our belly and we went home at night to an evening meal. But that seems to be completely lost on the Prime Minister, which is why this principle from Kiapoint North School so today Chiapoint North School. That's why he's saying today that Christopher Luxe's appalling comments showed just out out of touch. Heres Now, last night this thing came through on my social media feed and it was a video that guy you know that the How Too Dad guy, Jordan Watson's his name, and he was fronting this video and it was promoting kids Can. And in the video, he was reading letters that teachers had sent in talking about poverty in their schools, and one of them talked about two siblings at the school and how each of them only turned up every second day, and the tidally got a bit sick of this and went to have a word with the one who was at school, and the kid explained that they had to share a pair of shoes and it was his turn to wear the shoes that day. And that's why he was at school and his sibling wasn't. That's the world that the people working in schools know about. And I know the Prime Minister say he knows about it too, but I don't think he does. He's out of touch. Maybe he hasn't heard about what happened at that school of merchants last week. The lunches arrived and they were so bloom and hot that the plastic had melted. And it wasn't until the kids had been eating them for a bit that they realized they'd been eating plastic. How can someone how can someone be aware of that and then say, oh, if you don't like it, mak a marmte sandwich, it's Charles Dickens stuff. And that's been generous and no wonder. Education and Minister Erica Stanford wanted David Seymour in her office yesterday to explain what the hell's going on. Apparently, though that meeting didn't happen because the caucus schedule didn't allow it. Well, that was the excuse Seymour was trotting up on the news last night. But Erica Stanford. She must have had her head in her hands when she heard the boss banging on about mar Mite sandwiches on the radio and then coming out with the same nonsense in Parliament. And the principle of Kiapoy North School is spot on. Christoph Luxon's comments were absolutely disgraceful and they do sh that when it comes down to it, He's got no idea what life is really like for some kids in our country.

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