Children in the UK are malnourished

[Auntie Andy]

This is absolutely shocking but all the BBC and the right wing facist media are concerned about is Australian ball tampering, some random Russian JC the Antichrist . Wake up.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/e...-a8283956.html

[severncity]

The teacher quoted in that article, Jane Jenkins, is headteacher at Moorlands in Splott. I know the school as my grandchildren currently attend. It has a very poor catchment area but is not representative of schools in Wales. I’m an ex primary school teacher and the problems of poverty and abuse were much worse in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the first schools I taught in had a number of children suffering from syphilis.

Yes it is a scandal but it is one that has been ongoing for centuries.

[Wales-Bales]

The teacher quoted in that article, Jane Jenkins, is headteacher at Moorlands in Splott. I know the school as my grandchildren currently attend. It has a very poor catchment area but is not representative of schools in Wales. I’m an ex primary school teacher and the problems of poverty and abuse were much worse in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the first schools I taught in had a number of children suffering from syphilis.

Yes it is a scandal but it is one that has been ongoing for centuries.

All the more reason to sort it out right now! How could the teachers have ignored it for so long in the past without taking any action?

[severncity]

All the more reason to sort it out right now! How could the teachers have ignored it for so long in the past without taking any action?

Yes you would think that the Indy was trying to make political capital out of an issue that really has no ultimate solution - child neglect. There will always be neglected children but calls for the state to intervene to a greater extent in those children’s lives, either through schools or social services, should be tempered by the reality that most children who end up in the care system are likely to suffer far worse neglect and abuse at the hands of the state than they did from their parents.

[Auntie Andy]

Yes you would think that the Indy was trying to make political capital out of an issue that really has no ultimate solution - child neglect. There will always be neglected children but calls for the state to intervene to a greater extent in those children’s lives, either through schools or social services, should be tempered by the reality that most children who end up in the care system are likely to suffer far worse neglect and abuse at the hands of the state than they did from their parents.

Indy who the feck is Indy?

It’s a political forum isn’t It. And of course none of the right wing fascists on here make political capital out of an issue do they?

This Tory government is responsible for the rise in poverty, responsible for the constant attack on the sick and the disabled and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. They are responsible for the dismantling of the NHS, the attack on our public services, I could go on.

Wages are shite and people are struggling to feed their children and pay their bills, wake up.

[severncity]

Indy who the feck is Indy?

It’s a political forum isn’t It. And of course none of the right wing fascists on here make political capital out of an issue do they?

This Tory government is responsible for the rise in poverty, responsible for the constant attack on the sick and the disabled and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. They are responsible for the dismantling of the NHS, the attack on our public services, I could go on.

Wages are shite and people are struggling to feed their children and pay their bills, wake up.

The Indy is the Independent. I’d argue that both Labour and the Conservatives are to blame for poverty in the UK as they are the ones who have been in power for the past 100 years. I don’t need to wake up as I taught for over 20 years and my grandchildren are at the school in question which I visit at least once a week to pick them up.

[Wales-Bales]

I'm guessing there are reporting sytems in place teacher > headmaster > local authority? What happen if a teacher speaks out directly, do their careers go down the pan?

[severncity]

I'm guessing there are reporting sytems in place teacher > headmaster > local authority? What happen if a teacher speaks out directly, do their careers go down the pan?

I no longer teach but two of my siblings do and the buzzword is “safeguarding” aka snitching on the parents, other kids, other teachers etc etc ad nauseam https://www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk

Confidentiality must be respected in the public sphere but teachers are human; they gossip amongst themselves about the children. Many teachers are SJWs who will leap on thought crime at the slightest opportunity.