‘Scandalous’: Schools chief says they are providing children ‘three meals a day’, including ‘packed dinner’
by tylerthe-theatre
‘Scandalous’: Schools chief says they are providing children ‘three meals a day’, including ‘packed dinner’
by tylerthe-theatre
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Teachers have been warning for years that they’re increasingly becoming a Social Service of Last Resort.
I’m gonna say it again, louder for the people in the back. IF YOU CUT SERVICES, THE NEED DOESN’T GO AWAY, THE PEOPLE JUST HAVE TO LOOK ELSEWHERE. If you cut mental health services, the demand shifts onto other emergency services. If you cut welfare, schools end up feeding starving kids.
Clown world inversion complete. We’ve gone from parents preparing meals for school time because schools are incapable of providing a healthy diet, to now schools preparing meals for home time because parents are incapable of providing a healthy diet.
>4 or 5 people living in one bedroom, with cockroaches running all over the floor
More evidence this problem is caused by bad parenting. Cockroaches don’t come into your house because you’re poor, they come into your house because it’s dirty. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but the lurking variable is laziness. The people that are too lazy to clean are the same people who are too lazy to work.
I’ll sound like a c*nt now.. but as someone who grew up with no dad and an alcoholic mother with barely any money, was in foster care a couple of times and genuinely just had a dog shit upbringing… not once did we depend on our school to feed us *all* three meals a day. People who can’t afford the absolute most basic need of keeping their child fed shouldn’t be having children. I know saying “don’t have kids” once there’s already a problem is redundant but Jesus f’n christ headlines and realities like this are so frustrating. Don’t these people receive child benefit + any other wage or benefit they already receive?
Back when I was teaching, there were a few kids who I brought breakfast in for. Teaching hungry kids is no fun and neither is learning when you are hungry. I know I was doing the right thing for those kids but I should not have been put in that position to begin with. My job was to teach and provide some pastoral care on the side, not to be a social worker who taught every now and then. People claim it is easy to be a teacher but the demands of the job are harder than ever as you are now expected to be a community lifeline for families.
This is exactly what the government want. BIG SOCIETY. Everything super shit and charities take over all essential not profit services.