School food: Another spurious outrage

Kiwiblog is into Crosby / Textor overdrive today. Farrar's latest post, erroneously and ironically titled "Smart Kids", is about how school kids aren't allowed to buy unhealthy food in the tuck shop, so they cross the road to the dairy for chippies and fizzy drinks.

I don’t see why anyone should expect schools to be enablers of poor food choices by kids.

Next we’ll be told 18yo students should be sold smokes in the school tuck shop. After all, they just cross the road and buy them anyway. Maybe we should open a TAB next to the new liquor store (18+ only) by the pie cart in the school hall.

But we force these children to wear school-sourced uniforms with (expensive) school crests stitched on every item so parents can't buy cheaper substitutes. If you fail to provide the monopoly uniform for your child, they are denied an education altogether by your local tax-funded state school.

When National opposes school uniforms and the defacto expulsion supporting them, THEN I'll believe they are sincere about "freedom" and choice".

Hypocrisy to the max.

This Crosby/ Textor “nanny-state” BS sands out like dogs balls once you’re aware of the strokes being pulled.