Free School meals

[Barmaid]

Does anyone know how these work? If a child is eligible, does the school provide the meal without payment or does the parent receive the money from the state?

[joggerjayne]

Just my point, Daffy.

Any system that makes any kids stand out is silly, and needs to be changed.

Kids want to fit in with the crowd ...

Same hair, same phone, same clothes ... etc.

[ummmm]

Yes Jayne.....and how much pressure does that put on parents that qualify for free school meals.

[joggerjayne]

It must be hard, ummmm

I'm sure kids don't easily understand how hard things can be for their parents.

They see what their friends have got, and they expect to have the same.

Life is easier not being a parent !

[B00]

Well each voucher is worth £3.10 ummmm, i'm sure it depends on your circumstances how many of those vouchers you get.

I do find it sad when young mums come in with these vouchers- baby in pram- and then buy potatoes and UHT milk for example, these are obviously not going the babies way, that's for sure!

Sorry Barmaid to stray from your orginal topic.

[daffy654]

My son couldn't give a flying fig about what his friends have that he might not have (not that he particularly goes without)... one of the positve things about him having Aspergers Syndrome is that he just doesn't 'get' all the little social niggles that other teens do :)

[redcrx]

ah but the vouchers may be used for mothers food and milk, you dont know, they may be breastfeeding.

[B00]

rofl Red- you aint seen the mothers that I have then. I'm damn sure that the copious amounts of White Lightening and Wikeds aint helping them to breast feed either ;-)

[redcrx]

lol B00, i did wonder :)

I used to work in an Aldays store (spar owned) in the centre of a huge council estate. We didnt have the veg vouchers then, only milk tokens coming in. Im sure me and you could swap some great stories lol

[B00]

Yeah probably.

Did you look at the babies too and think "God help you love" when you saw the state of their mothers?

[redcrx]

lol i have probably done that at some point.

did you do the add £10 onto the bill of those who were thieving on their way around? we did that at one store. A certain group of people who thought they were doing us over and would feed the entire family in one circuit of the store, yet we got the last laugh lol

[mollykins]

At my high school, we put money onto cards, but if you recieved free school meals the money went on automatically at the start of each day.