I, for one, think it's pretty much a hopeless case, and that the only hope for our kids is to get as many as possible into private or home schools ASAP.
That baby is salvagable. So is mom absent the responsibilty and burden of motherhood. He/she - the baby - needs a nurturing and healthy home. Even if the adopting or foster care parents are white folk. If "black leaders" object to that, they are racist scumbags.
When these kids are liberated from their disease, they'll learn at the same pace as their peers, they'll succeed and fail and grow honestly, they'll see a future and a life so they won't get knocked up or gang bang to compensate. So, they'll have kids when they are ready and able to raise them, just like it's supposed to be.
Hmong, Somali and Mexican kids don't go to public school until their English is sufficient to learn at a commesurate rate with their classmates. MacAllister College, St. Olaf and the rest have $50 million endowments, why don't they fund intensive English instructional centers for Hmong, Somali and Latino immigrants? These bastions of left wing sublimity are so freaking earnest and smug, maybe they can do something postitive for a change. They're sitting on piles of money.
No kids stay in class if they are fundamentally lacking the tools ... language, behavior or home preparation ... to compete in a positive and enlightening way.
To the DFL and MEA ... it's about funding mechanisms, revenue triggers, program investments, status quo, status quo ... **** the kids, let's keep the union dues and election wins coming.
By all means, create the educational springboard that best honors your commitment to the future prosperity and happiness of your children.
But, you and I will still be paying to maintain a putrid and insidious culture and political outrage. If a young woman comes to Hennepin County and says "I'm pregnant, I don't know or can't tell you who the father is, I need some service" i.e. free pre-natal, birthing, post-natal and pediatric medical services forever more ... if we're paying for his roof, paying for his food, paying for his clothing and cribbing and toys and diapers ... that's OUR KID!
We've got to attack this blight and soon. Some culture to authenticate, a newborn and her 60 year old great great grandma. No, grampa is not a real word, nor is Dad and three uncles are currently unavailable for comment.
Getting the kids to Kindergarten with a foundation ready for go-go growth is what we OWE those doomed little babies. They're not going to get it without some vicious close order combat from the poverty pimps. Race based stuff too, though the problem is absolutely independent of skin color, and fully a function of cultural behavior and mores.
These children deserve better, and these parents don't deserve a thing.