Poorest schoolchildren left out in the cold by the State

A SHIVER of reality spiked through classrooms as children taught they are all “cherished equally” by the Republic had a lesson in State hypocrisy.

The working poor just hold things together: getting up early to do draining jobs, paying their taxes and struggling on, knowing the route out of a similar life for their children is education.

Now that basic right is impeded as their children are left to learn in cold, dilapidated classrooms while money that should help them is siphoned off for the fee-paying elite.