Greece on the breadline: the children of Athens too hungry to do PE

[girl gone mad]

Tales of solidarity come from Victoria Prekate, an Athens secondary school teacher and psychologist, who relates how her colleagues in schools in the capital have been responding:

It has been a common secret among PE teachers for some time now that they don't expect pupils to do PE any more, because many of them are underfed and get dizzy.

They need to be discreet, as these underprivileged children don't wish to be exposed to their peers. In my previous school, the teachers arranged among themselves to give the school canteen some money, so that the canteen could give the child a snack, without embarrassing the child.

However, this was not enough. In many schools today, it is the parents' associations who come together, gather food and discreetly arrange to allocate it to those families of the school who are suffering. In co-operation with the teachers, they know which children in the school are hungry and in need of help. Again, they try to do it as discreetly as possible.

read more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/mar/13/greece-breadline-hungry-children-pe

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Tonight, the bankers will nibble foie gras and sip Sauterne

And toast their big win.

[Warpy]

2. Discreetly, my left wing ass

They need to expose this as loudly and publicly as they can, doing fundraisers to get food to children who are being starved into inactivity by the stupid austerity program that is driving Greece ever farther into depression.

Shaming the government into doing what they should have done years ago is the aim: pass tax laws with enough teeth in them that the rich start to pony up for the first time in that country's history.

Then maybe we can do the same thing here.

[xchrom]

3. Quelle Shock! Quelle awe! Nt