00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm heading out into Manchester to
00:03ask people on the street about free school meals. Now with children who
00:07attend state schools in London and Scotland all being afforded free school
00:10meals we want to know what people think of the idea of free school meals for all
00:13and what they think about the fact that the trials are taking place in London.
00:17I think it should be free. Back where I'm from, I'm from New Zealand and we didn't have free
00:22school meals and I feel I remember there being a little bit of judgment about
00:25what kid would bring which food to school and some kids having more food
00:28than others and getting jealous. I think like of course if there's like
00:32millionaires and their kids are getting free meals and that's kind of something's
00:35gone wrong there but I think they should be free for like the vast majority of
00:38people. I think that um yeah having free school meals just like eliminates that
00:42factor and takes stress off the parents and having to provide food for their
00:45kids going to school every day and so I imagine it being a good thing. I think
00:49there's it's a case-by-case thing really I don't think there's enough time or
00:53resources in the system to figure out case-by-case so I think in theory like
00:57there could be some system that in practice it should just be free.
Comments