Shoes can be had at second hand stores for cheap. And charities will supply them for free.
In most urban areas where most of these people live buses are free for school children. In rural areas also school buses run or the kid is in walking distance.
There are really very few insurmountable obstacles to getting a kid to school other than a delinquent and unruly kid in which it is better to remove the kid from the home and put him or her in a boot camp type environment.
I walked pretty darn far to get to school.
As for home, pop had two heart attacks, two strokes, an aneurysm, and missed a kidney.
My mother did a crazy thing. She went to nursing school while taking care of five kids, and went to shop with food stamps at bight because she was too embarrassed to be seen with them.
Why will NO ONE say what the real problem is.
Like Rocky said to Paulie in Rocky III
You ain’t down and you aint a loser, you’re just a jealous, lazy, bum.
There are actually some very conservative statements in Rocky movies.
Like the one from Rocky Balboa:
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!