In 750 deprived areas of England, healthy supervised breakfasts are being prototyped in Primary Schools with government funding before a full rollout.
Submitted 17 hours ago by sixeyo@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rvr211xejo
tetris11@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
good, and sad that food is now a literal carrot to get kids to come to school
core@leminal.space 17 hours ago
Its not to get kids to come to school, its so they aren’t hungry, b/c kids shouldn’t be starving. And kids also do better in school when they aren’t hungry.
tetris11@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
I agree in principle, but then the “boost attendance” quote seems to suggest that more kids are coming rather than the same kids are performing better