No lunch at school

[TowerTower]

Do some parents not feed their kids at school? My son says a lot of the kids keep asking him to buy them food and some he has said hes never seen them getting lunch ever and you might say oh maybe they are not hungry but these are the same kids that are asking him to get them food so they obviously are hungry. Is this common in secondary schools for parents to not provide their child with a lunch? I am by no means rich but surely feeding your child is a priority?

It's a legal requirement for them to be educated, not to go to school. I don't think it's unreasonable that parents should be responsible for at least some parenting, and feeding your child seems pretty basic.

If you know any names you could confidentially pass them on to someone at school and they can investigate to find out why pupils are not eating.

This! It is crazy kids go to schools where they need to pay for lunch! In the uk, one of the richest countries in the world. They should be fed breakfast and lunch. Just reduce a bit other expenses (tax payer money that goes to defence, PM allowances, royal allowance..) and find budget to feed kids

Would it be too difficult to appoint an external company to do nutritious and healthy lunches? Why to choose the ones who provide sugary fat and poor options? Then people wonder why UK has such a high obesity rate…

No idea, mine are at a school where we pay for dinners termly and they just choose what they want on the day. All the options are ‘healthy’, although they do have pizza/chips type stuff on a Friday. They have to choose a main course, they can’t just pick junk.

I did the same also spent it on magazines and yeah I didn't bum off my mates I just ate when I got home 🙂

And to effectively deliver that (education), kids need to not be hungry. The point of school is to drive educational outcomes. I believe providing decent food would have a huge impact in doing so

The point was that that education can be delivered anywhere, it doesn’t have to be at school. There is no legal requirement for a child to be educated in. school, which is what the post said that you agreed with, and that I was responding to.

No, I’m agreeing to feeding children in school. Feeding children in school is what this whole post is about.
Though if you want to go down that track, I imagine for many people school is compulsory in the fact that many parents would not be capable of providing education in any other way. Hence, why we have state provision to begin with with.

Ok, well I assumed you were agreeing with that post in its entirety, my mistake.
My point still stands.

And some would still choose to play football instead.

I would never pay for school dinners in the UK, they're crap.
We need a system like they have in France. Although I've read that it's gone a bit ' cafeteria ' in places.