How ‘bout putting prisoners to work -or the homeless?
In Asia the students rotate duties to serve lunch, daily cleaning of classroom and bathrooms. There is still a janitor and kitchen staff to handle ovens, stoves and maintenance that children should not handle, but less is needed because the students handle the majority of the lighter duties. The effect is lower school costs, teaching kids the skill of housecleaning and habit for cleanliness. Most important it creates peer pressure against vandalism. If one student vandalizes the school and fellow students must clean up his/her damages, they will turn on him/her. It would be an interesting experiment for our inner city schools where most of the vandalism occurs.
Add to that the people collecting unemployment.
They do put prisoners to work around here but I wouldn’t want them in our schools. Homeless people are most often homeless because of alcohol or drug addiction so, no to them too.
When I was in Jr. High a family moved to the dump, they were called rag pickers back then. They lived in an old school bus and had 8 children. The bigger kids slept in a tent. One of them was my age and his last name started with P so he was usually sitting next to me and boy did he stink. The school gave he and his brother a job and allowed them to use the showers, TBTG, and life was much better for them, their family and even me.
Can't do that or you'll have lib heads exploding over slave labor.
Years ago, there was a government program that put kids to work at schools and other government entities during the summer. If nothing else, it kept them off the street. I don't think that program is around anymore.
Well, I’ll point out that a lot of parents would be uncomfortable with prisoners or homeless people near their kids...