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Originally Posted by LearnMe
Listen, please. It is not rocket science to understand that poor parenting -- or no parenting -- is a big part of the problem, but teaching a bad parent how to be a good parent is not as easy as you also seem to insist.
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Giving them more money, which is what you want to do, is not going to solve the problem.
And, you can't solve the problem of poor parenting by allowing poor parents
to blatantly refuse to attend the free tax-payer funded parenting classes.
You have to start somewhere.
Since they have no intention of attending the free tax-payer funded parenting classes of their own free-will, you have to compel their attendance, and you do that by cutting their benefits if they refuse to attend weekly classes so long as minors are living in their household.
Some will become better parents, some it may take 10 years of attending weekly classes to be better parents and some never will, but the point is that
at least some will become better parents, and you're now better off than you ever possibly could be otherwise.
Your method of giving them more money without holding them responsible or accountable will always result in failure and perpetuate poverty.
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Originally Posted by LearnMe
Smaller classrooms and better teachers for starters maybe?
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It was common for a single teacher to teach 40-60 students in grades K-12, and that's how it was for two centuries.
America did just fine.
So, why can't a single teacher teach 35 students in a single grade level today?
Many teachers never even attended college. It was only later that Teacher's Colleges arose, and then even later before the States started mandating requirements to be a teacher. Unions came after that.
The obvious conclusion is the States and unions have made things worse, not better.
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Originally Posted by LearnMe
I tend to see the same, but if/when a country as wealthy as ours decides we should not concern ourselves with those dealing with poverty and/or not try to mitigate the challenges of poverty in the ways that we can, that's the day we stop being the Americans I'd like to think we strive to be.
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You're never going to do that by throwing money at the problem.
That's the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats refuse to hold individuals accountable for their actions or lack of action, blame everyone but those people for their plight, then lavish those people with money as bribes for votes.
The only real effective solution rests with hold them accountable and demanding they take action to improve their plight.
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