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In 2016, it was revealed that the free school “superhead” forced children to sit in detention if their parents cannot afford to pay for school lunches.
Birbalsingh issued parents with a letter threatening to punish pupils with “lunch isolation” if their lunch payments were not made on time.
Parents were told their children would be given a sandwich and a piece of fruit in place of their hot meal and separated from their friends at lunch time until the debts were paid off.
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If you read the stories referenced (which I'm sure you didn't) you would see:
This is in regards to people that can afford school dinner not paying for them.
I pay for my kids dinners.
It's not about people that were on free school dinners.
Parents owing up to £75, if they can't pay then they should seek the assistance that is available. Why should the school pay for parents that can't be arsed?
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She also said people from poor backgrounds should not aim for Oxbridge – and should take “smaller steps” instead in her first speech as the Chairman of the Social Mobility Commission.
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She didn't say that that either, she said the focus of policy should not be on pushing a few kids from disadvantaged backgrounds to elitist universities or careers but to lift a whole generation of kids into improved education and good job outcomes.
Some will go to uni, but not to focus on them and leave the other kids to wallow on the council estates they need to elevated themselves from.
Seems like a good policy to me......unless you're against kids from poorer backgrounds bettering themselves?
This was what Labour was about, good paying jobs for all, with no need to attend Uni, if it wasn't for you.
Which to be to honest, after Blair, the left don't seem to care about nowadays.