Saturday, July 12, 2003
This feels like deja vu, all over again. Have I mentioned before about the school using retinal scanners for security and school dinners?
And apart from anything else there's also the little matter of cost.
[The Headmaster] said he expected the system to be paying for itself in seven years' time.
If a school is losing that much from the school dinners budget there is something seriously wrong. Check to see if any of the children are wrinkly, need a zimmer frame to walk and can remember WW2. If any of them are then the school will find it's been subsidising the lunches of the nearest old folks home.
And there are loads of schools around the country that don't know if they'll be able to offer school dinners next September, let alone some expensive system that will keep them in debt for best part of a decade.
And apart from anything else there's also the little matter of cost.
[The Headmaster] said he expected the system to be paying for itself in seven years' time.
If a school is losing that much from the school dinners budget there is something seriously wrong. Check to see if any of the children are wrinkly, need a zimmer frame to walk and can remember WW2. If any of them are then the school will find it's been subsidising the lunches of the nearest old folks home.
And there are loads of schools around the country that don't know if they'll be able to offer school dinners next September, let alone some expensive system that will keep them in debt for best part of a decade.
