Teachers feeding hungry children

Petallus - I never read about the chips, crisps and sugary cakes + fluo drink in any newspaper - I witnessed it, day in, day out, for nearly 20 years of teaching in local schools.

When DH and I were in London recently, sitting in a cafe in Oxford Street looking out of the window, we observed an obviously foreign little old lady who was begging away for all she was worth, approaching anybody who came within her radius, hand outstretched, eye contact etc. Later on, further down Oxford Street, we came across another similar little old lady doing the same.

Fairly obvious they were part of a begging business which used sympathetic figures like old women (and probably children).

But they are not the kind of beggars I was referring to. It's easy to spot a real desperate down and out.

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My daughter left teaching several years ago ( class sizes, lack of funding etc) but prior to that she used to take food in for some children. And I’m sure things have got worse since then.

Mamie

This is a shocking story in the Guardian today:
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/19/breadline-britain-hungry-schoolchildren-breakfast
It feels as if the gap between rich and poor is widening all the time at the moment.

2012 folks….

Not to say that things are better 12 years later but this was happening in the early 70s when a friend started teaching in a Manchester primary school.

This thread is 12 years old !!!!

Phantom thread.🙄

This was a fairly affluent area no council estates etc

Sometimes families on council estates treat their children better than those who live in mansions.

It was in todays news. So things haven't improved much.

I started teaching in the 70s. We often fed hungry children then, and , which wouldn’t be allowed now, bathed those that were dirty or smelled of urine. Sadly things have not improved

No, it hasn’t, but some of the blame lays with the parents,

There are people on here who had horrible, abusive upbringings, and were not fed.