Heartbreaking reality of poverty stricken children going to school too hungry to learn

mirror.co.uk:

A grim picture of child poverty in Britain is painted today by worried teachers who tell how pupils are arriving in class too 
hungry to learn.

Some are rifling through bins to find food to eat while others are missing school as they have to look after younger siblings while both parents are out at work.

In the past year, nearly half of teachers brought food into school for famished kids. One teacher said: “The biggest impact for me is when children are so hungry in the morning that they are not able to focus on anything else. “Some children even physically shake because they are that hungry.” A survey for the Daily Mirror carried out by National Education Union found four in five teachers think that child poverty in their school has