Breakfast v Pies... again

Emotions run high when faced with ‘pie-eating’ school kids and with the Red Cross potentially pulling out of Shannon school and their ‘breakfast club’ it is a real possibility that old habits will return.

And return they will if further intervention is not forthcoming. However, the provision of breakfast meets the immediate need but goes little towards addressing the underlying cause.

Parental choice and budget management issues often lead students to needing support through schools to address their basic needs.

Yet I feel we’ve had this discussion before and perhaps we can go around the roundabout one more time.

Pies= cheap food.
Fruit, cereal, milk and toast = expensive

The immediate ‘hungry tum’ needs to be addressed for many parents and the shifting mind-set toward the long term implications are just that, long-term and way, way into the future.

“Perhaps we can address this issue later, when we have a little more money available and a little more time” but the reality is oyu blink and your kids are grown, habits are formed and ‘traditions’ passed on… including eating pies on the way to school.

It nice to identify the issue but WHAT ARE WE GOING DO!!!!?
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