80% of UK teachers feed hungry students
A new study has revealed that a deepening hunger crisis is underway at schools across the UK, with many teachers feeding hungry students in their classes.
According to a survey by YouGov, 80% of British teachers buy food for their students to relieve their hunger. Many of the students have claimed that their families cannot afford to feed them in the morning.
The teachers say hungry students cannot concentrate because of hunger. They say they buy food for them to prevent them from falling asleep in class.
They blame the Tory government’s austerity measures for the child hunger at schools.
At the same time, a number of teachers blamed the crisis on children not leaving on time in the mornings and parents being “too lazy” to make breakfast.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) said the Tory government’s austerity measures are taking a heavy toll on children’s lives.
“Children’s lives are being blighted by poverty and the increasing financial pressures on families…Poverty takes a physical and emotional toll on children. Children living in poverty often suffer more ill-health and absenteeism from school and cannot concentrate when they are hungry,” the union’s chief Chris Keates told the Daily Mirror.
“Teachers and other public service workers are struggling to pick up the pieces caused by this government’s economic and social policies…The government has a responsibility to tackle, not generate, poverty and homelessness,” he noted.
Meanwhile, a London-based commentator believes the revelation is yet another evidence showing that the austerity measures have already given rise to increasing poverty in the UK.
“This is another consequence, another piece of the huge domino of poverty caused by austerity measures implemented by the government,” Javier Farje told Press TV on Saturday.
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