What would you do with an extra 30 minutes in your day? 🤔
— Department for Education (@educationgovuk) October 1, 2025
Free breakfast clubs are transforming mornings for 500,000 children - that's 95 precious hours back each year while children get a nutritious start to their day.
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How do you feel about this policy, knowing your taxes are going to feed the children of women like these, and for what? So they can go to the coffee shop or have a snooze? While you scrimp and save and work overtime to feed your own children?
I think what got me was the mum who declared that she forgot to 'feed her children' while appearing to have never once forgot to feed herself - they needed a wide angle lens to get all of her in shot!
I can only assume a member og that 'vast right wing conspiracy' we are told exists infiltrated the firm that made this nonsense.
I’m a little conflicted in this one, at least as long as children are being reared by the sort of parents I wouldn’t trust to keep a goldfish - the sort who (true story) would send a hyperactive 11-year-old to school after a ‘breakfast’ of Sunny Delight and Skittles because “it’s all he would eat” (and another bag of Skittles in his pocket to snack on during lessons, which is how I came to have that conversation with his mother).
ReplyDeleteIn the short term, starting the school day with some sensible nutrition (and toothbrushing afterwards) could make a huge difference to such children and, indirectly, their classmates; even one seriously disruptive child can effectively derail a day’s worth of lessons. While I deplore the growing tendency to view even the most basic aspects of child-rearing as someone else’s responsibility, I do think that this is one area where the damage has to be mitigated for the sake of the child and the class as a whole , however irritating the parental response.
Personally I’d favour a system like that used by many playgroups; a parental rota to collect food, wash up crockery and clean up afterwards (rules mean they wouldn’t be allowed to serve food or have contact with children) - would save on staffing costs and might help to remind mothers like those interviewed that it isn’t just a state service to let them have a nap or socialise.
But it would only attract the parents that the government doesn't want rearing children - the resourceful, 'dig in and help' type, who otherwise would be part of the WI. That won't help government plans to raise unquestioning drones for the future...
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