I'm really surprised that UK schools don't have filtering requirements. Typically, school issued tablets and Chromebooks are going to get some sort of content blocker, where personally-owned devices are not.
So among all the other reasons they shouldn't be doing the "use your own phone" in the classroom, there's that.
When I was in school, my family qualified for reduced-price school lunches (not zero-price "free" lunches). When I got to high school, the formula changed, so for a couple of years, I rarely had lunch ... but the food had also changed, so lunch was often disgusting. We're talking roughly half a century ago.
Yes, the US had (has) families where for whatever reason money / food ran out before the month ran out and some where they can't always afford school lunch. We try to give limited assistance for the sake of the kids, while trying not to reward mismanagement or incompetence. I think we likely do a poor job of both, but that's probably built in once you have sufficient population and area.
(Here's where someone will want to jump in with some anti-capitalist saying. To that person I say keep it to yourself. Humans have never yet had a system deployed to a large and diverse group of people over a large area that handled both of those things well while still allowing people to have individual choices. Therefore, if you think "You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism" is anything other than ignorant, you need to read some accounts of people's lives under the USSR and its hostage states.)
@fu Newspapers were in decline in the US before the Internet was publicly available. Things were so bad that a law passed allowing papers in certain large cities to consolidate their back-end operations with their competitors as long as the editorial and marketing remained separate.
And where those weren't approved, Major cities became single-paper towns.
Example: in 1984, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner closed, leaving the Los Angeles Times as the sole large paper. LAT became the most profitable paper in the country for a few years, as it got all the advertising funds that would have been split across papers.
I thought the league was six-and-under, but based on the size of a couple of players I saw today, I suspect it is eight-and-under. Most of these players are three to five years old, so these kids really dominate the game.
I saw comet 2023/A3 last night about 20:00 US-Central. It was great! The comet was faint, but my peripheral vision picked up a long streak and then I was able to pick out the head. I'm planning to try again tonight with one of the grandkids.
Binoculars gave a decent view. The phone camera didn't pick it up.
We usually talk about our progress in our respective CyberSecurity programs during our Sunday night call. This time, we skipped it. I'm sure we'll catch up on it in the next call.
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