Free breakfasts for school kids?
Discussion
Free breakfasts have been available to school children in Wales for a few years. It's got nothing to do with parents not being able to pay for breakfast but is a very useful service that allows working parents to drop children off at school earlier, knowing they'll get something to eat and the parents can get off to work. Also, a surprising number of children, sadly, will not get breakfast at home.
the state some kids are in at school is appalling. My other half is a teacher and there are kids who come in who have not eaten anything since the free school lunch. How can you teach them anything they are off the planet from being malnourished.
Yes parents like that should not be allowed children, but they do have them.
Yes parents like that should not be allowed children, but they do have them.
HertsBiker said:
Surely not serious. If parents can't afford to feed their brood, why are they churning them out?
(source: BBC website )
Because that is what a good society does. A good society lets you make bad choices, like ignoring the education you were offered by messing around instead of paying attention, or turning down a low paid job because it is beneath you or it means getting up before 8am, or choosing to breed with someone nature would otherwise have left on the sideline in survival of the fittest. A good society lets you do those things because those who did pay attention at school, and worked hard and long to achieve success, will happily hand over the fruits of their labours to those who, through their own choices, now find themselves falling on hard times. That's what a good society does.(source: BBC website )
I massively resent paying tax, especially when it gets spent on stuff I can't use, like food for children, shelters for beaten wives and medical research in to illnesses I'll never have. Don't even think about talking about NHS treatment of infertility - it's investing in future tax wastage.
Still, I managed to avoid paying tax enough to buy myself a sense of proportion, and now I find I don't care enough to whine about it all the time on the internet.
I'm just glad I'm not a beaten wife with girl cancer and starving children.
I'm also pretty glad I got to go to university for free when all the thick and young people didn't.
Still, I managed to avoid paying tax enough to buy myself a sense of proportion, and now I find I don't care enough to whine about it all the time on the internet.
I'm just glad I'm not a beaten wife with girl cancer and starving children.
I'm also pretty glad I got to go to university for free when all the thick and young people didn't.
i do know of a neighbour who does not feed her kids properly . three cars on the drive immaculate house . maybe living beyond their means but the kids have margerine sandwiches for lunch .
if those kids get a decent breakfast at schooln i would not mind at all . i imagine it is not just the waynettas that do not have time / cannot be bothered to feed their kids in the morning
if those kids get a decent breakfast at schooln i would not mind at all . i imagine it is not just the waynettas that do not have time / cannot be bothered to feed their kids in the morning
Make it opt-in/out. Mandatory for people receiving benefits to opt in and the money deducted from their allowance. People not on benefits can also opt-in, if they need to drop the kids off earlier and it gets taken from their pay packet.
Benefits don't make me mad, its how they are abused that do. If I was in a position to require them, I'd not care if it was food vouchers, as long as I got some food. The less cash we give people on benefits the better the system will work.
Benefits don't make me mad, its how they are abused that do. If I was in a position to require them, I'd not care if it was food vouchers, as long as I got some food. The less cash we give people on benefits the better the system will work.
doogz said:
Wait? Isn't the schooling free?
Scandalous. People shouldn't have kids if they can't afford to pay for their schooling.
What's that? They do? It's paid for via tax? In a similar manner to this new scheme?
Calm down, eh?
So tax is being increased to fund breakfasts or tax stays the same and some funds removed from teaching to pay for breakfasts?Scandalous. People shouldn't have kids if they can't afford to pay for their schooling.
What's that? They do? It's paid for via tax? In a similar manner to this new scheme?
Calm down, eh?
This is to deal with kids from the underclass not being fed by their parents in the morning. Nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately, we can't target those parents individually because it's probably against their human rights to let their child starve so instead we have to feed all the kids, regardless of whether their parents do actually feed them.
They were interviewing kids on the TV who said they'd already had breakfast that morning!
They were interviewing kids on the TV who said they'd already had breakfast that morning!
Oakey said:
This is to deal with kids from the underclass not being fed by their parents in the morning. Nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately, we can't target those parents individually because it's probably against their human rights to let their child starve so instead we have to feed all the kids, regardless of whether their parents do actually feed them.
They were interviewing kids on the TV who said they'd already had breakfast that morning!
You couldn't make it up.They were interviewing kids on the TV who said they'd already had breakfast that morning!
Future NHS money drainers these kids!
It's worse really when you think about it, it's indoctrinating youngsters into the Labour mentality from an early age. Right from the off they'll now grow up with the belief that kids will be fed breakfast in school and it's not something they'll have to worry about doing themselves in the future and before long it'll be seen as another entitlement that will be difficult to remove.
Oh, and just to add, Labour leader Simon Blackburn wants to bring this into High Schools as well as introduce free lunches for all!
Oh, and just to add, Labour leader Simon Blackburn wants to bring this into High Schools as well as introduce free lunches for all!
I have no problems with kids getting free school breakfasts IF the parents are investigated as to why this is happening.
There needs to be a carrot and a stick. If it's found the parents are smoking or drinking and their kids are going without, then let's look at what action can be taken. If it involves taking the children in to care and reducing the parents' benefits, so be it. Parents wilfully not feeding their kids breakfast but smoking 40 a day need to have their priorities re-aligned.
There needs to be a carrot and a stick. If it's found the parents are smoking or drinking and their kids are going without, then let's look at what action can be taken. If it involves taking the children in to care and reducing the parents' benefits, so be it. Parents wilfully not feeding their kids breakfast but smoking 40 a day need to have their priorities re-aligned.
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