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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Are free school lunches provided by the government private or public goods?

i just gave my alevels economics exam and this question has left a lot of the students divided with the answers so i would appreciate it if someone could help me understand this.
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The answer *really* shouldn't be hard.

"Public" good doesn't mean "good provided by the government".

Public goods are goods which are non-excludable and non-rivalous.

A school lunch is excludable, you can't just walk into a school and get it, and it's rivalrous, if one person eats a meal, that meal is gone.