Last week I held the view that unfed, unloved and abused children are the consequence of bad parenting. Today, I give a bouquet and medals to principal Susan Dunlop and her teaching staff at Yendarra School, Otara.
Last week Seven Sharp, had great viewing of a school that did not want or need the taxpayer to fund food in its school. It already had a culture where children and parents believed that feeding and loving children was the only way for young ones to succeed socially, physically and spiritually.
To view the bright, happy faces of those kids who were eating their lunches out of ‘home' prepared lunch boxes was a ‘view of the future'.
A damned, crying shame that our country is run by the Harawiras, Pita Sharples, Turiana Turia, dogooders, Maori activists, university-bred socialists, academics and governmental ministry minions and of course, the sycophantic politicians in the National, Labour and Green parties whose sole answer to any problem is chuck more taxpayers' money at it.
If those people had half a brain they would be searching out these amazing models (and there are a few of them) and making sure the goodness in our communities was being replicated throughout NZ.
Common sense, true values and committed adults can, and, do make a difference.
Go to: www.yendarraschoolotara.co.nz and also view the 7 Sharp programme on TV on demand.

Maureen J Anderson, Pyes Pa.