Marcus Rashford - School Meals Vouchers Campaign

[wastedyouth86]

Speaking from experience i use to work in a role where i would have to visit over 300 Academies, Multi Academy Trusts and local authority schools both at primary and senior school level and to be honest a free school meal isn't the only thing they need they need actual discipline and badly.... kids both female and male are absolutely vile and know there isn't much a teacher can do to them.

Also what you find is that the parents of the kids do not really care as they feel school betrayed them so the parents will back the kids up let them miss school as there just isn't any respect.

yet we are suppose to go all do eyed at these poor little things that would quite happily spit and swear at the teachers.

[NMNeil]

wastedyouth86 said:

Speaking from experience i use to work in a role where i would have to visit over 300 Academies, Multi Academy Trusts and local authority schools both at primary and senior school level and to be honest a free school meal isn't the only thing they need they need actual discipline and badly.... kids both female and male are absolutely vile and know there isn't much a teacher can do to them.

Also what you find is that the parents of the kids do not really care as they feel school betrayed them so the parents will back the kids up let them miss school as there just isn't any respect.

yet we are suppose to go all do eyed at these poor little things that would quite happily spit and swear at the teachers.

No, you take the child to the parents; yes I mean you literally put the kid in a car and take him/her to the parents at home or to their place of work and say "Your child is disruptive and can't be controlled". And leave the kid with the parents so they can sort it out.

[BrundanBianchi]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA

Monty python got it right.

[pequod]

BrundanBianchi said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA

Monty python got it right.

Thank you for reminding me of that sketch.

[bigpriest]

R Mutt said:

Another story from our local Facebook

"Yesterday only a few of these lunches were collected. Please, please, please come and collect a lunch today - they are great - each lunch bag contains a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a yogurt, a piece of fruit and a drink. Please pass this message on to anyone that is in need this half term and please don't feel embarrassed to collect one - everyone is suffering in some way or another during this pandemic and there is no judgment. There is a lot of love in our community please take some"

Put in a piece of deep-fried chicken and there would be queues down the road.

[Pit Pony]

NMNeil said:

That's a really nice display cabinet behind her, with some expensive looking china.

Which could be a family airloom, and therefore worth 2/10ths of feck all.
I got some nice furniture and crockery when my nan died. It was worth "Not a Lot"
I've kept the display cabinet and tea service.
I look on gumtree weekly to see what ste is for sale within a mile of me, and these thing are worth less than 100 quid.

[bad company]

I’ve nothing to add:-

[768]

[Pan Pan Pan]

bad company said:

I’ve nothing to add:-

Heaven only knows how much the government stuffed into that poor little mite, to get him into that condition. Errr What! You`re telling me it was his caring parents that did that! Could it be that it is the parents who have the responsibility for feeding their children properly? Who da thunk it?!

[KingNothing]

R Mutt said:

Another story from our local Facebook

"Yesterday only a few of these lunches were collected. Please, please, please come and collect a lunch today - they are great - each lunch bag contains a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a yogurt, a piece of fruit and a drink. Please pass this message on to anyone that is in need this half term and please don't feel embarrassed to collect one - everyone is suffering in some way or another during this pandemic and there is no judgment. There is a lot of love in our community please take some"

Not surprised that has happened somewhere, think supply will have outpaced the perceived demand in a lot of areas, loads of places in my local area were offering food parcels, haven't heard if they had people actually take them up on it or not though.

[Murph7355]

KingNothing said:

Not surprised that has happened somewhere, think supply will have outpaced the perceived demand in a lot of areas, loads of places in my local area were offering food parcels, haven't heard if they had people actually take them up on it or not though.

And you never will...

[randlemarcus]

Pit Pony said:

Which could be a family airloom, and therefore worth 2/10ths of feck all.
I got some nice furniture and crockery when my nan died. It was worth "Not a Lot"
I've kept the display cabinet and tea service.
I look on gumtree weekly to see what ste is for sale within a mile of me, and these thing are worth less than 100 quid.

I bought a few of these just pre lockdown 1, for a fiver each. I ought to go and pick them up at some point.

[R Mutt]

KingNothing said:

R Mutt said:

Another story from our local Facebook

"Yesterday only a few of these lunches were collected. Please, please, please come and collect a lunch today - they are great - each lunch bag contains a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a yogurt, a piece of fruit and a drink. Please pass this message on to anyone that is in need this half term and please don't feel embarrassed to collect one - everyone is suffering in some way or another during this pandemic and there is no judgment. There is a lot of love in our community please take some"

Not surprised that has happened somewhere, think supply will have outpaced the perceived demand in a lot of areas, loads of places in my local area were offering food parcels, haven't heard if they had people actually take them up on it or not though.

Happened with a charity my friend works for too, some 40 miles away.

[anonymous-user]

R Mutt said:

KingNothing said:

R Mutt said:

Another story from our local Facebook

"Yesterday only a few of these lunches were collected. Please, please, please come and collect a lunch today - they are great - each lunch bag contains a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a yogurt, a piece of fruit and a drink. Please pass this message on to anyone that is in need this half term and please don't feel embarrassed to collect one - everyone is suffering in some way or another during this pandemic and there is no judgment. There is a lot of love in our community please take some"

Not surprised that has happened somewhere, think supply will have outpaced the perceived demand in a lot of areas, loads of places in my local area were offering food parcels, haven't heard if they had people actually take them up on it or not though.

Happened with a charity my friend works for too, some 40 miles away.

That's quite sad. Why is it happening? Do you think the few people that need them/have the means to/can be arsed to go and claim them are disproportionately represented on SM? Or because a pre-packed parcel with brown rice, tuna, and instant jelly isn't the same/as useful as the vouchers they were getting?

[R Mutt]

OpulentBob said:

R Mutt said:

KingNothing said:

R Mutt said:

Another story from our local Facebook

"Yesterday only a few of these lunches were collected. Please, please, please come and collect a lunch today - they are great - each lunch bag contains a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a yogurt, a piece of fruit and a drink. Please pass this message on to anyone that is in need this half term and please don't feel embarrassed to collect one - everyone is suffering in some way or another during this pandemic and there is no judgment. There is a lot of love in our community please take some"

Not surprised that has happened somewhere, think supply will have outpaced the perceived demand in a lot of areas, loads of places in my local area were offering food parcels, haven't heard if they had people actually take them up on it or not though.

Happened with a charity my friend works for too, some 40 miles away.

That's quite sad. Why is it happening? Do you think the few people that need them/have the means to/can be arsed to go and claim them are disproportionately represented on SM? Or because a pre-packed parcel with brown rice, tuna, and instant jelly isn't the same/as useful as the vouchers they were getting?

To be fair this is only a packed lunch. But you can't be starving if you don't need it. They must be available in convenient enough places. I just don't think it's as convenient as getting your week's food from one trip to the supermarket free. Still if nurses use foodbanks the unemployed must have time to collect lunches.

[Leptons]

OpulentBob said:

That's quite sad. Why is it happening? Do you think the few people that need them/have the means to/can be arsed to go and claim them are disproportionately represented on SM? Or because a pre-packed parcel with brown rice, tuna, and instant jelly isn't the same/as useful as the vouchers they were getting?

Probably because Mum is still in PJ’s at 2:30pm and busy sharing inspirational memes on Facebook so has chucked the little cherubs a packet of monster munch and a can of coke and told them to FO back upstairs.

[faa77]

Evercross said:

I know it is a cliche, but how many of these kids going hungry live in a household that has pet dogs, or a parent with a £50+ mobile phone contract? There absolutely is a problem, but blanket coverage of the issue just leads to a blind eye being turned to the real problem which is parents who prioritise other things above their own children's welfare, and suddenly becomes the state's problem thus vindicating the choices of the parents and giving them an excuse to continue their neglect.

I work in education and I see it frequently - neglected kids yet their parents are wearing £150 shoes and carrying the latest iPhone.

By all means feed the kids, but scrutinise the parents for reasons why the kids are hungry in the first place. This is not a societal problem, it is a behavioural one.

Edited by Evercross on Tuesday 16th June 11:27

100%

And a lot of parents think they cant afford food because they can't afford a KFC every night!

[poo at Paul's]

No surprise at all.
They are not interested in actual food or meals for their kids, they just want the vouchers or cash to buy what they want.

This whole story was just political horsest from the start. Some dreadfully abused kids have died on hunger in the UK, but it is incredibly rare, as are cases of UK kids being malnutritioned.

[fiju]

Looks like some people have seen sense. I'd like to raise my point again of vetting people before they're allowed to breed. And forced sterilisation of those that are beyond helping.

[anonymous-user]

fiju said:

Looks like some people have seen sense. I'd like to raise my point again of vetting people before they're allowed to breed. And forced sterilisation of those that are beyond helping.

I'd like to shoot that "point" down in flames, it's a disgusting thing to say, something I'd expect from North Korea.

I bet every parent displays at least one trait that will have someone frothing that "that's unacceptable, you should never have had kids".