Some children have been going to school hungry since the year dot.
Breakfast clubs achieve many things.
They do feed the kids of useless parents. Unless and until we have to apply for a permit, and pass exams, before becoming parents there will always be useless parents, just the same as it ever was.
Breakfast clubs are free/cheap ways to look after kids whilst both (economically responsible and hard working parents) start their first job of the day. Maybe make a note here that 40% of welfare benefit claimants are in work. Tax payers support low wage workers.
Bulk purchases from schools etc are even better value that the dry oats suggested as being good enough.
Why object to schools teaching what poor parents leave out?
Teaching them better oral health is done by good parents. Why should schools not reinforce good parental practise?
What possible downside is there to schools teaching oral hygiene?
As I said, I don’t object to breakfast clubs, I object to them being needed.
The same goes for teeth brushing lessons.
Perhaps it would be better to have parenting classes for the parents of any child who says he doesn’t get breakfast or he doesn’t know how to brush his teeth.
I can only assume if they are not feeding him properly or teaching him personal hygiene, then they are also probably not teaching him; how to cross the road, the dangers of strangers, how to say please and thank you, that he shouldn’t carry a knife, etc…
Poor little Billy probably isn’t going to have much much chance in life, so yes parenting classes would be a good idea. Fix the problem and not the symptom.
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I remember the school dentist every year, the nit nurse, the local bobby about road safety and stranger danger and others coming into primary school. Maybe they should bring all that back especially the school dentist who can then advise parents they need to get their children treated, my mum religiously took us to the dentist every six months as did many others. I also remember one girl in my class caught impetigo and all parents were notified of signs and treatment, do they do that now in the UK because they do here especially with infectious stuff although parents do not have inform the school if they are too embarrassed. Scabies came into grandson’s class before the summer, luckily the child in question was sent straight home, the school shut and sanitised and parents of all children who had contact with that child were informed.
School dentist in my day were butchers, captive audience and free to do as they pleased and earned a fortune. Friends came away requiring 27 fillings at the age of 12! Even Kings Dental have condemned them when they were talking to trainees just the other week
