Posted on 04/02/2018 11:30:59 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The plight of schoolkids living in poverty in 21st century Britain was highlighted Monday as schoolteachers told of their experiences on the frontline in schools in poorer areas.
A survey of 900 teachers revealed 60 percent of them saying child poverty in schools had worsened since 2015, with one in three saying the problem had got significantly worse, the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) was told in Brighton.
The Guardian newspaper reported how headteachers from schools in deprived areas say they are having to provide basic services such as washing school uniforms for pupils from poor households, and are even paying for budget advice and counselling services for parents.
A number of school leaders said at the conference they had noticed a visible difference in health and stature between children from their schools in deprived areas and those from better-off areas.
One headteacher from a school in Cumbria in northern England said she was shocked to witness the differences between former pupils from her school and those from other primary schools.
"My children, who have gone from me up to the local secondary school, have grey skin, poor teeth, poor hair, poor nails. They are smaller, they are thinner," she said.
"At sporting events, you see your children in the year group compared to other children in an affluent area and you think: our kids are really small. When you see them with children of the same age who are from an affluent area, they just look tiny."
Louise Regan, head of a primary school in Nottinghamshire, said: "We have a food bank, so we give out food parcels, particularly on Fridays, we buy clothing, we do a lot of buying, particularly coats in winter and shoes. We've had children who haven't come to school because they didn't have shoes."
Jane Jenkins, headteacher of an inner-city primary school in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, said: "Poverty on paper seems to be getting better but the reality is completely the reverse, poverty is just becoming more and more extreme."
Mondays were often the worst days at some schools, conference delegates said, with children arriving in school hungry and tired after a weekend with little food.
The experiences of teachers back up a new survey carried out by the NEU in association with the Child Poverty Action Group.
NEU official Celia Dignam, responsible for child poverty issues, said the union's survey revealed 4.1 million children are living in poverty.
Dignam said: "Schools are now a safety net, particularly for children in poverty," added that the Institute for Fiscal Studies had estimated that by 2021 5 million children in Britain would be living in poverty.
In a statement the Department for Education said: "We continue to support the most disadvantaged children through free school meals, the 2.5 billion pound (3.5 billion U.S. dollars) funding given to schools through the pupil premium to support their education, and the recently announced 26 million pounds (37 million U.S. dollars) investment to kickstart or improve breakfast clubs in at least 1,700 schools."
You can park all you want at the end of the driveway, I am a half mile in. lol
We do Wine Wednesdays here.
It would help if we had a longer driveway. That reminds me, I need to go move a car. The Upnorth People on our west side always put their trash bins next to our house, even though they have plenty of frontage on the other side of their driveway. Also, they chopped up my wisteria where it was growing over their fence.
I would be a much better neighbor....
Big deal! We had to do all that plus wash all the windows at the teachers house during a blizzard on the way home....
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IN ADDITION to all that, we had to dig the cattle out of the snow, herd them into the barn, walk the 2 miles to a paved road to wait for a bus that may or may not come, if it does there are several stops along the way to for US to dig the bus out and if the driver was extra generous we would get to dig other cars out along the route.
Then get to huddle around the pot bellied stove and go through the same thing on the way home WHERE some chores were awaiting us...
AND this was in da Bronx NYC
ALL youse guys had it soft.
Where I used to live the same thing is happening. It will have the same result.
No shoes for school? Do they have cell phones?
You are one of the few who get this.
I would expand the group from poor whites to all whites, though, as it is part of the Elite agenda to weaken Western Civilization and by necessity, white people's sense of culture, history, and unity.
It becomes clearer by the day that the Elites cannot win until they destroy white people as a force on this planet.
The wisteria will be back, and it will outlast the Upnorth People.
you’re lucky, you had teachers- We had to teach ourselves- i would have loved to wash the teacher’s windows IF we had had a teacher
you guys had cars? Wow- you’re lucky- We only had bikes with square tires- the round wheel hadn’t been invented yet
hmmm
Bikes were jocks.
Also unheard of at first. FB face bar was a 1 bar attached to helmet ‘protecting’ nose. BB batting helmet was two pieces of plastic over ears, held together with a couple of ‘elastic’ bands across the top.
They were introduced WHILE I was already playing and didn’t like either.
ALso left gloves on field so OTHER team could use - HARDLY EVER did because it wasn’t ‘cool’ to borrow a glove.
Best part of winter was the snow gathered at the ‘bottom’ where the road curved AND we had to tunnel under the drifts to walk the half mile or so to catch the bus. IF it came, no early warning, school was open .
Ah, the ‘good’ old days...
Seems the Brits are screwing up ... maybe giving up the best of Western Civilization for fashionable PC BS was a bad trade.
We had to trudge through a yard or more of shag carpet to change the television station without a remote!
lol- good old shag carpeting-
Thank you! Dalrymple is one of my favorite writers and City journal is a great place to read Conservative writers.
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