Arkansas has one of the fastest growing populations of illegals in the country. Tyson imports them by the busloads.
"The problem? The kids won't come."
Likely government solution: Keep the parents too ignorant and spiritually barren to understand or be responsible for adequately providing for, disciplining and supervising their children. Enter the government "saviors" as more or less permanent guardians of all minor children, with parental involvement only by permission and within certain specified guidelines. Then they could be indoctrinated 24/7 and those pesky parental units would be out of the way altogether, and what without the need for day care, just think of how much more time they would have available to work...to accommodate the higher tax burden for the "privilege" of having the "compassionate" government relieve them of the responsibility of child-rearing.
Sound preposterous? Perhaps; but then so did homosexual marriage, as recently as 5 years ago.
As far as the after school program, I was kind of hoping for something concrete that would help me as a teacher work with kids that don't want to stay after school for extra tutoring. I've heard the sarcasm plenty of times about government indoctrination, how we don't do enough, how we teachers are just failures. My question was, and still is, when you have teachers that want to teach and are good teachers, how do you get kids to stay after for that extra help. These aren't kids that are on the borderline btw, these are kids that in 6th grade are 4 to 5 years behind in reading and/or math. I've talked to parents numerous times about what is being offered and the usual response is, "Well, he just doesn't want to go, so I'm not going to make him."
Anything constructive on how to make an after school program more attractive so kids will stay and get help on adding, subtracting, multiplication and dividing and then learning how to read beyond a 2nd grade level would be great. That type of interaction would help; the sarcasm is just old hat and I've heard plenty of that from freepers. Teachers aren't very liked around here--not even the conservative ones.