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Posted on 01/10/2008 3:42:37 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
the kids need to rag on their parents to work harder and longer.
uh - what’s wrong with peanut butter?
When you are the 5th or 6th generation of your family to live on welfare, that’s all you’re going to know. Somehow, we need to make a job mandatory for a person to get welfare.
Mmmm.. peanut butter and dill pickle sammitch.
I’m serious!
Hillery! hasn't mentioned that.
Are you sure....
65% of the children in the entire County of Siskiyou CA live in poverty. Rural poverty doesn’t get near the attention of inner city poverty.
“You don’t get scholarships just because you’re poor or you’re black. You get them because you earn them.”
http://www.eldoradopromise.com/
1. Go to school
2. Graduate
3. Get a scholarship
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And saying "NO!" to socialism would be a huge key element in Milwaukee, or any city. Socialism=Applied Boredom. Socialism=Poverty of Thought + Poverty of Inspiration + Poverty of Action=Poverty of Everything.
Socialism causes things fall apart, it's scientific.
Wouldn't surprise me if one out of three were obese, either.
I had some, and I’d have to dig it out. What I recall is that the original research showed gains for voucher students, but subsequent research showed significant flaws in the original methodology.
There were also problems with “private schools” that weren’t teaching anything but were getting rich off the voucher money, including maybe one run by a criminal or sex offender. Someone from that area might remember more.
I *think* some of the problems included that students who used the voucher program tended to perform better than those who didn’t to begin with.
So do I, and my kids, as well. However, I remember having PB&J sandwiches, hold the pb&j, and only one slice of bread. I grew up in poverty, too. And catsup sandwiches, hold the bread. Early pregnancy caused mine. Parents who are involved, as my mother was, even when working two and three jobs, however, can really help kids know there is a future out there. School is the path to that future.
Of course, in blue states, they seem to have a vested interest in keeping people in poverty.
getting more fathers involved in raising their children
Chicago—the city that keeps on giving.
The daddies are in Chicago...garnish their wages.
The people in this story are poor, inner city blacks. Very few own homes, have jobs or are married. They generally don’t pay any property taxes (and their slumlords don’t either, if the tax delinquency rates are to believed) or income taxes.
There is a culture in Milwaukee’s inner city that marks education as a bad thing. Working a job is “too white.”
Even the teachers I know despair of teaching most kids in the inner city. One retired teacher said that the only thing that has changed since she taught in the 1960s is that all the schools in Milwaukee suffer from the blight that was limited to a few inner city schools in 1960.
Most poverty in the US could be solved by learning to read, saving sex for marriage and showing up for work on time, 5 days a week.
Poverty in US = luxury in most of world.
That and what counts as poverty in the us gets more luxurious every year.
Electricity and running water need to be missing before I’ll consider it a big deal.
Is there a major city that is not rat operated? 500,000 population or more.
How about a roomate? Single parents who can’t afford to support their kids on their own salary need to network and share house and utility payments.
No one says you have the right to a 3 BR house all to yourself just because you have kids.
5 lb. bucket of Shed’s peanut butter in the house at all times.
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And what is the answer? Why, elect more Democrats, of course.
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