Teachers are in the classroom, researchers aren’t. Teachers are on the pulse of things. Researchers are busy having “findings”. Most don’t seem to go much beyond the Bleedin’ Obvious, none more so than the blizzards of academic drizzle concerning the causes and consequences of poverty.
Did you know it’s comprehensively bad for children? Yep. Terrifically bad. It ruins childhoods completely.
Relentless research shows paupers are, among other things, pale, wan, raggedy, rickety, skinny, wasted, sleepless, anxious, angry, traumatised, trembling, consumptive, famished, illiterate, innumerate, delinquent, drugged, drunk, low stream, low ability, depressed, nuts, antic, thick, morbidly obese, excluded, “disappeared” and, in very extreme cases, dead. Often the lot. Teachers know this. They see it everyday.
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