Middlesbrough residents reject a report labeling the town the hardest place to grow up, arguing such rankings are demoralizing and misrepresent their community's reality.
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Teesside town has come out worst in children’s commissioner’s report, but residents say such rankings are demoralising and counterproductive“It’s disappointing, it’s just another kicking,” said a youth worker after the town in which they work was labelled as the hardest place in which to be a child in England.“It suggests our children are living unhappy lives,” said a teacher, who described her pupils as joyful. Continue reading...
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