No corporate crumbs for small, poor schools

AS media reports highlight the worsening childhood obesity problem, are people aware the Government will not provide any funding for PE equipment in primary schools this year?

However, SuperValu’s ‘Kids in Action’ offers impoverished schools a ‘free’ Gaelic football worth €11.70 if we collect €3,190 worth of shopping receipts. A ‘free’ gymnastics springboard worth €250 will be ours if we generate a mere €39,920 worth of shopping.

It doesn’t appear to bother either the Department of Education or the Irish Sports Council, which support the scheme, that the inevitable losers will be the small schools, poor schools and special schools which may have greatest need of PE equipment.