Saturday, February 26, 2011

YP - nice one Beryl!

Not poverty but neglect

From: Beryl Williams, School Hill, Wakefield.

I READ recently how a nutritionist was trying to educate poor schoolchildren who had never seen a carrot and didn’t know what one looked like.

This state of affairs is usually blamed on poverty. But I wouldn’t mind betting that every single child knew what a cigarette looked like. This isn’t poverty, it is neglect. Cigarettes cost far more than carrots.

NOT Good Enough!

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