Speaker 1: So Marley May, she's my oldest, she's almost six years old.
Speaker 1: She started school this year, and I feel like, as
Speaker 1: a mum, I'm still getting used to having a kid
Speaker 1: that's at school.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you finished that sentence. Why I'm still I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to end it. I'm still gonna use.
Speaker 3: To having a kid sometimes, I am.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever get used to completely
Speaker 1: being a parent, or if every day is like you're
Speaker 1: learning something new from these wonderful little miracles. No, but look,
Speaker 1: school's changed so much since we were at school, Brett.
Speaker 1: So if you want to order something from the canteen
Speaker 1: for your kids for lunch, and this might not be
Speaker 1: the same every school across the country, but definitely for
Speaker 1: the one Maley goes to, everything is done via an app.
Speaker 1: Do you remember back in the day how your mum
Speaker 1: would just send you to school with like five bars
Speaker 1: and that was enough to get you chicken yummy drummies,
Speaker 1: a souper duper a four hundred, like.
Speaker 3: Chocolate buds five bucks.
Speaker 4: No, I was like two dollars.
Speaker 2: You were getting a meat pie and some chicken chippies
Speaker 2: and you put that in a brown paper bag. That
Speaker 2: was collected in a shopping basket by two people that
Speaker 2: were very specially chosen.
Speaker 1: Ye, it was like the two school leaders, Like your
Speaker 1: class leaders got to take the shopping basket down the
Speaker 1: white shopping basket with your brown paper bag and you
Speaker 1: would right on the front of the brown paper bag.
Speaker 3: What your order was so funny?
Speaker 1: So that's changed now, Okay, Now you have to be
Speaker 1: organized and I am not an organized mum. I am
Speaker 1: a last minute mum and I just kind of get by,
Speaker 1: which usually serves me fine. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: like needing to have your kids lunch order in prior
Speaker 1: to eight am by the app, I'm not very.
Speaker 3: Good at it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I put in this order and like they've
Speaker 1: got fancy things at school now, like Marley's got pork
Speaker 1: and chived dumplings, and they've got everything's like hell Star
Speaker 1: raided in school, which is much better than where we
Speaker 1: were kids.
Speaker 3: Dumplings, dumplings. So Marley's order was Assaii bowls.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's also asking for trouble for a five year
Speaker 2: old to eat an Assii bol.
Speaker 1: So Marley wanted an Assi bowl for recess, and she
Speaker 1: wanted pork and chive dumplings for lunch, and I was like,
Speaker 1: no problems.
Speaker 3: I put the order in.
Speaker 1: I got a you know, some grapes and a few
Speaker 1: other things. Receipt came through. I checked the amount. Sixteen dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: where them off?
Speaker 3: You go?
Speaker 4: Sixteen dollars for a kid's lunch.
Speaker 3: Order, yes, recess and lunch.
Speaker 4: Pull them out home school, it's too much, that's a
Speaker 4: loto Chris.
Speaker 1: I go to pick up Molly from school and she
Speaker 1: is in tears, like she is not a happy camper.
Speaker 1: I always pack her a couple of extra snacks because
Speaker 1: you never know if they're gonna like what they get
Speaker 1: from the canteen, so just to make sure she's got
Speaker 1: something else in there, just in case.
Speaker 3: She's in tears. And I'm like, baby, what's wrong, what's happened?
Speaker 1: And she was like, Mum, you didn't put the canteen
Speaker 1: order in today I didn't have any lunch.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then I went back on the app and I checked,
Speaker 1: and I think I must have just checked the total
Speaker 1: amount and didn't actually process the order because it was
Speaker 1: no actual receipt there. So it wasn't the school fault,
Speaker 1: like it was definitely my fault. It was an app
Speaker 1: glip and I made a mistake.
Speaker 4: She wanted was a damn asaii in pork dumpling.
Speaker 3: And like all she wanted was at pork and shive dumplings.
Speaker 1: I mean she got an IOU from the canteen and
Speaker 1: she got her like some oranges and some bits and pieces.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not a signing bowl.
Speaker 3: It's not a sign bowl.
Speaker 1: But my thing is, I actually can't get my head
Speaker 1: around how much everything now.
Speaker 3: With school is online.
Speaker 1: And this is everything from ordering from the canteen to
Speaker 1: buying school uniforms you do it online, to like booking
Speaker 1: them into after schoolcare you do Everything is done through
Speaker 1: different apps, and there's so many apps. There's so many
Speaker 1: WHATSEP groups. Even to book in your parent teacher night
Speaker 1: you have to do it through a calendar app so
Speaker 1: that you know when you're going to see the teacher.
Speaker 1: Like everything is online, which on one hand is very convenient,
Speaker 1: but on the other hand, if you miss the deadlines,
Speaker 1: you can't just send them to school with a brown
Speaker 1: paper bag.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, I know you said you're not
Speaker 2: an organized person, but a lunch order app is far
Speaker 2: easier than it is to have gone and gotten cash
Speaker 2: out and to have a brown paper bag and to
Speaker 2: write on it, to put it in and put into
Speaker 2: the bag.
Speaker 4: They've actually handed that to you on a platter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then what if when technology fails you, it.
Speaker 2: Didn't fail you failed, it was a user problem technology.
Speaker 1: No, I understand. I know, obviously she's fine. My child's
Speaker 1: not neglected. She gets a great lunch every day.
Speaker 2: But well, you know what shocks me is like when
Speaker 2: I think back to being in school, you had chalk
Speaker 2: on a chalkboard.
Speaker 4: And you had like a projector.
Speaker 2: So if you were going to do this big group class,
Speaker 2: someone would be chosen to write the information. Well, the
Speaker 2: teacher would write the information down on like one of
Speaker 2: those aful pieces.
Speaker 3: And then the sea through sheet yep, And you'd have.
Speaker 4: To put on the projector.
Speaker 2: And it was someone's job to make sure like the
Speaker 2: sheets were constantly moving on the projector and they weren't
Speaker 2: back to front and upside down. And now I don't
Speaker 2: even think there are chalkboards. Isn't it all like on iPads?
Speaker 2: And isn't it really extreme for kids now?
Speaker 1: No, I think that they're still chalkboards. I went into
Speaker 1: a parent teacher recently. So we had like a class
Speaker 1: presentation where the teacher had to present to all of us,
Speaker 1: is like an orientation for kindergarten, and all the parents
Speaker 1: walked in and we sat at the kid's desk. The
Speaker 1: only thing is that because they're in kindergarten, they're not
Speaker 1: normal sized chairs and they're not normal sized table. So
Speaker 1: there there was like thirty parents just all squeezed into
Speaker 1: these little chairs on the floor while the teacher was
Speaker 1: up the front talking to us. It was very humbling.
Speaker 3: Question.
Speaker 2: Do they still get like your pen license? You know
Speaker 2: how you had to upgrade from a pencil to a
Speaker 2: pen and then a red pen.
Speaker 3: They're still to a red pen.
Speaker 2: Well you got red pen, blue pen and an pencil
Speaker 2: in my day, Wow, now we didn't have that.
Speaker 3: We just had from pencil to pen. I never got
Speaker 3: my pen lify basic your.
Speaker 1: School, Yeah, I never got it. I never got it.
Speaker 1: When you entered year six, everyone who hadn't had it
Speaker 1: just automatically got it. And I was the only kid
Speaker 1: in year five who wasn't allowed to have a pen license.
Speaker 1: Well treated as a weapon. Why are we on trustworthy
Speaker 1: with a band?
Speaker 3: No? I think my year five teacher really didn't like me.
Speaker 1: I still have I still have hang ups' depro shoesy