My wife teaches on the wrong side of Tacoma, WA.
Virtually no kid has a Father at home. When there is a married father involved, it is so rare we marvel at it.
Everyone is on welfare. The rates are so high the State threw in the towel and told them to stop checking for who was eligible for free breakfast and lunch.
Everyone gets free (#1) breakfast and lunch at school. Plus SNAP benefits are calculated as if taxpayers are providing free (#2) breakfast and lunch. Yet STILL kids are dropped off by a hungover (drugged?) mother at 10:30 am, and my wife can’t teach a hungry kid, so SHE AND I buy free(#3) food for these late arrives.
I literally buy their breakfast three times.
Frustrating.
My parents were poor farmers. We kids got free lunches at school. But our being there probably increased the school’s overall academic performance by about 50%. And sports performance by about that much too. And my parents always paid their income tax, including huge property taxes. Actually, the taxes they paid is probably what put us within the guidelines to receive free lunches. We never saw a dentist. We kids bought our own clothes from picking and selling cucumbers in the summer. When we had strep the dr would send home a big bottle of amoxicillin because he knew we’d all get it. I remember being told I couldn’t put frosting on a chocolate cake because we couldn’t afford powdered sugar.
We’ve all gone on to pay our taxes, so they got more back from us than they ever gave us.
What’s sad about the situation at your wife’s school is that the moms are just wasting away while somebody else raises their kids. How does somebody like that ever find healing? They’re pretty much dead already but just rotting more every day.
gets free (#1) breakfast and lunch at school. Plus SNAP benefits are calculated as if taxpayers are providing free (#2) breakfast and lunch. Yet STILL kids are dropped off by a hungover (drugged?) mother at 10:30 am, and my wife can’t teach a hungry kid, so SHE AND I buy free(#3) food for these late arrives.See my above post as related. And overall children of such are being conditioned for socialism.
Our son, who is divorced and retired, wants to marry a younger divorced woman, who is working 2 full time jobs to support her 5 teenage children.
The ex-husband contributes nothing and even owes child support in six-figures.
If this lady marries our son, her children will lose their elegibility for scholarships and medicaid, and she refuses to transfer that responsibility to our son.
She and the children want and need him in the family, but this is a problem.