That's an excellent idea Blue Mist, I'll mention it to our Head.Perhaps you could invite Sir Marcus to your school so that he can teach you how to plan, budget and distribute the meals in a cost effective way.
Just don't ask him to do it quietly without fuss and a bbc camera crew in tow.
Thank you for your informative reply. I have learned more about the realities from your post than the BBC on all its celebrity type coverage.I work in a school and the government guidance, as always around free school meal (fsm) provision is as vague as always.
My school has decided to provide supermarket vouchers to the value of the cost of school meals that the kids aren't getting which is what we did last time.
Most of our kitchen staff have been furloughed and there are logistical problems around families collecting food parcels and social distancing if we had gone down that route as we have over 300 kids on Fsm and I know some schools that have more than this.
Most families prefer this system however I've had feedback that a minority are not buying food with the vouchers.
Perhaps Silly Sally and St Marcus can come to the school I work in and police this?
Logistically it took a lot of hard work to set up last time and this will take us a few days to get up and running again as a year group has left and another started with us since last time and other families are now eligible who previously were not.
Whatever an individual school decides to do is wrong in the eyes of someone like Trashford and him sticking his big nose back into this debate isn't helpful to anyone working in schools.
You are now on a challenge, all of BM would love to see you and the PE teachers do a tiktok/youtube vid doing just that. Come on you know you want to :-)That's an excellent idea Blue Mist, I'll mention it to our Head.
I'll even offer to draft the email to the Biased Bullshitting Corporation which will start with;
Dear Busy ****,
In return maybe I can ask our PE teachers to tell him how to do his job too?
He could do with some coaching on how to stay onside.
The drama teachers could get involved in a video of how to fake a scream of agony as part of the diving and rolling lesson.You are now on a challenge, all of BM would love to see you and the PE teachers do a tiktok/youtube vid doing just that. Come on you know you want to :-)
The teachers get a few enquiries but it's mainly support staff that organise the distribution of vouchers by collecting email addresses of parents and sending electronically and using the old fashioned post for families without email or prefer paper vouchers.Thank you for your informative reply. I have learned more about the realities from your post than the BBC on all its celebrity type coverage.
How do you manage with the ancillary staff off. Do the teachers cop the lot.
Well done, sincerely.
I think St Marcus would be the one teaching drama in this scenario.The drama teachers could get involved in a video of how to fake a scream of agony as part of the diving and rolling lesson.
I’m sure Sam Lee is a decent enough bloke, but I can’t take him seriously. A Utd fan from the midlands that’s been on the City beat for 5 minutes.
The fact is The Athletic have multiple writers for the big teams. City have 1 - the same number of reporters they have covering Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City.
The big teams get 3+ reporters that have a history supporting and writing about the club, often for fanzines. We get a brummie Utd fan that has been covering the club for 3 or 4 years.
How can anybody think that’s normal ?
The Athletic have chosen to treat City differently to all the other elite clubs. That’s not his fault. But it’s a fact.
No. It is deliberate. Not a single BBC mention of City or our owners in all the stuff about the vaccinations at the Etihad yet the negatives are always given a subtle hint that it might be City.2 negative stories about football in the mail on line today all about covid nothing to do directly with city,
main picture is of a city player, nearly always the same when a negative story is out there,
or am i being a bit precious
I respect your opinion GT but the message is well and truly out there and as I've said the publicity thrusted in our faces on a daily basis by a publically funded broadcaster is getting ridiculous now.Rashford (as sickly as the coverage is) doesn't deserve the hate in this thread. He got out there and helped out and he's doing a good thing for poor people who don't have enough food. I quite like that it took a lad from Wythenshawe to highlight the issues.
No, it happens too frequently to be a coincidence.2 negative stories about football in the mail on line today all about covid nothing to do directly with city,
main picture is of a city player, nearly always the same when a negative story is out there,
or am i being a bit precious
Rashford (as sickly as the coverage is) doesn't deserve the hate in this thread. He got out there and helped out and he's doing a good thing for poor people who don't have enough food. I quite like that it took a lad from Wythenshawe to highlight the issues.
Going back even further, Peter Gardner was from Blackpool iirc.I've supported City for nearly 30 years now and I don't recall too many if ANY actual City supporters from Manchester covering the club.
I've supported City for nearly 30 years now and I don't recall too many if ANY actual City supporters from Manchester covering the club. What we've had are proper rags like Ogden, Jackson, Custis, who are basically cheerleaders for United writing about City in the most negative ways possible.
I'm not privy to the Athletic's policy on writers per club, but I know that they have been interviewing for another City reporter to join their team. It won't be a City supporter because sadly, there are very few of us in the mainstream media.
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Also, for the record. The Blues who have been given a platform by the mainstream media, are in the main, horrible twats. Conn and his ilk are as bad as Delaney.
I think that's fair comment as far as Rashford goes personally; fwiw I think he’s a good lad and a credit to himself; however, this thread is about the media through the prism of coverage of City, and football more generally, and the juxtaposition of how united and the deeds of their players are reported with that of City and theirs (which is stark and manifest) is clearly pertinent to that.It's bizarre and it undermines this thread. There are genuine issues with the way the media cover City in comparison to other clubs.
But if you start having a go at a young black footballer for doing good work for the underprivileged (whatever his personal motivations), then you've lost sight of what's important in the world.
I think that's fair comment as far as Rashford goes personally; fwiw I think he’s a good lad and a credit to himself; however, this thread is about the media through the prism of coverage of City, and football more generally - and the juxtaposition of how united and the deeds of their players are reported with that of City and theirs (which is stark and manifest) is clearly pertinent to that.
That isn't the point though, the message is well and truly out there and schools are working hard to make provision using very vague government guidelines which basically say do whatever you deem to be fit.It's bizarre and it undermines this thread. There are genuine issues with the way the media cover City in comparison to other clubs.
But if you start having a go at a young black footballer for doing good work for the underprivileged (whatever his personal motivations), then you've lost sight of what's important in the world.
Can't say I've had it on this morning but reminding them how long it is since they topped the league(not that they have yet) should be seen as a negative for them?Full on wankfest on Sky sports for the swamp dwellers, now informing the mutants it's been 1221 days since they last topped the league, all will be good at castle greyskull if they beat the mighty Burnley tonight.