Can MarcusRashford’s free school meals campaign break the stigma around money and poverty shame?
Marcus Rashford’s open letter to the government has ensured meals for children during summer holidays
Growing up in a single-parent family on benefits, I was eligible for free school meals, but I refused them. I instead chose to row with my mum over it in the mornings while she dug deep in her bag for a quid, knowing full well that I was taking away from an already small pot for food and bills. But the idea of people at my school knowing I was “poor” enough to get free food filled me with dread. We were skint and I spent everyday at school trying to hide that from people.
To this day, I berate myself over this behaviour. How could I be so selfish? What did it matter if a friend saw me not paying for my food? Why would I put my mum through that? I think of thewithout any choice – they either eat FSM, or eat nothing – and wince at my own juvenile snobbery. Like I say, it’s all pretty complicated.
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