BBC Radio on the Raspberry Pi controlled with a tiny web server

Hungry Children: update

Well, since I posted my open letter to the school about children going hungry at lunchtime, there have been over 4000 page views and no response from the school as yet (apart from an acknowledgement). I have done a fair bit of reading around the subject though - both comments here and on Facebook and other articles on the web.

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Children going hungry at Bitterne Park Secondary School

What follows is the text of a a letter sent to Bitterne Park Secondary School, Southampton on 29th September 2014.

Dear Mrs Trigger,

I am writing to you because one of my children was not able to eat any lunch last Thursday: a situation seemingly caused by inadequate facilities at the school. This is completely unacceptable. In discussing the situation with my three children I have found out about other aspects of the catering arrangements which also concern me. I am publishing this letter on my blog (http://blog.scphillips.com) in order that other parents may contribute their experience and so I am using the letters “T”, “F” and “R” to refer to my children in order to preserve some anonymity.

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Fingerprints for Food

What follows is the text of a letter sent to Bitterne Park Secondary School, Southampton on 24th June 2014.

Dear Mrs Trigger,

Re: cashless catering

I approve of the cashless catering idea in principle: it removes any difference between those who have free school meals and those that don’t. It stops anyone stealing someone’s money or losing their own. I should also note that I am not irrationally worried about the technology: I work in IT research and fully understand how these systems work.

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