Schools are also providing free meals and access to hardship funds for teachers who can’t survive on their salaries.

UK is a horror show of increasing poverty across the board.

And let me just point out the cost of living crisis is entirely artifical. We have enough stuff, the 1%ers just don’t want to share

My kid just started secondary school the cost of their uniform is fucking ridiculous. Easily running into the 100s.

They needed socks with the schools logo on it. Absolutely ridiculous.