If they are intended to be a bureaucratic shit-show, then you have victory.
It’s not going to be perfect, but I’ll settle for way better.
I think 2 things would help, at least take some pressure off the schools and put it back on the parents and communities
Fail kids who do not pass core curriculum
Kick out consistently misbehaving kids, especially if they disrupt class.
Yeah, this is common sense, it doesn’t happen anymore. Do not wonder why a Senior cannot read “Green Eggs and Ham”. If they don’t learn, they still move up with the rest of the class who does.
You would NOT believe the difference removing a consistently disruptive can make. When you have 45 minutes for a lesson and for 30+ of those minutes the teacher is constantly going “No; Stop; Don’t; No hitting; put your head your desk; Quit kicking your desk; etc. etc. etc” Nobody learns. The whole class gets fucked up because of one kid.
And if you don’t believe one kid can fuck up a whole class, go visit one of these schools. If some of these kids were mine, I break a two by four on their ass daily. For fun they could read or scrape the gutter…
Yeah, it’s that bad. I am not exaggerating. If anything, I am painting a rosy picture…
Ah. Gotcha. Inartful phrasing on my part. I didn’t mean to suggest (although I clearly did) that it would be the society doing the aborting. Allow me to re-phrase:
“If/when some horror show of a society codifies the ‘right’ of parents to abort kids, it’ll apply.”
As for my ‘non-crazy’ comment, I stand by it: Only a crazy person would be as disturbed by the abortion of a first-trimester pregnancy as s/he would be by the murder of a child.
People are always worried about stuff like this and it just seems to work out. Maybe it’s not magic, I don’t know, but life goes on and most people are not in dire straits…
“You just take them rascals out in the swamp, put them on their knees and tie’em to a stump, let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest” ~ Charlie Daniels
EDIT: He lives on…
Maybe. In fact, some of the articles were no big dealing it because we can always increase immigration to pay for our welfare and entitlements. I don’t know, though. I have to question the value of a culture that necessarily must replace itself And it’s the kind of immigration that’s taken over a series of towns north of me…Young men wandering up and down the street, or hanging out in numbers at gas stations while waiting for gray headed white men to pick them up by the pickup truck full…The transformation of these towns into what many of these men left behind… Outside of the well to do white boss men and their pieces of property…Well, it sure doesn’t look like these towns are materially better off for the change in, well, character.
I reckon he’s not. I must have had him confused with someone else, my bad. I swear I thought he passed a couple of years ago. He’s no spring chicken.
He’s got one hell of a resume. He’s played with some of the biggest bands, including the Rolling Stones.
My favorite song of his is “Legend of Woolly Swamp”.
For whatever reason Charlie Daniels has become one of my top, “wait, isn’t he dead” celebrities. I’m not sure why but periodically I seem to come under the impression he’s passed away only to realize that I must have, again, mixed him up with someone else. I do that with Cash, too.
There are welfare queens. The inner city beauty supply shops, nail salons and fast food places are all built around that phenomenon. I don’t think women are having babies to get more money but there are a lot of unemployable, permanently unemployable, welfare recipients. When I lived in the inner city I accidentally went to the welfare office waiting room. It was not a pretty sight witnessing a mother call her son a mother f***er.
Probably. The point of my question was around quantifying it.
Is it happening en masse? Is it happening once per every 10 million citizens? Any guess is equally backed by any sort of information.
It’s harder for multi adult families to get govt housing because of income bracket swings. Married doesn’t have anything to do with it (or at least it didn’t use to).
Funny thing is I’ve lived in the ghetto and despite the number of times I’ve encountered LEOs, they’ve never asked my status IRT public assistance to know one way or another.
I’m a firefighter EMT in a very poor city, with a very high violent crime rate. There are definitely people gaming the system, but it’s hard to tell how many have multiple children to get a bigger check, and how many are just grossly irresponsible. I’ve been on calls where the parents don’t know how to spell their child’s name.
I don’t look at my own experience as representative because I work in a dysfunctional shithole. It’s like Detroit, but smaller and with a significantly higher violent crime rate per capita. I’ve never heard nor thought of a solution that doesn’t hurt the children more that anyone. If your police friends don’t discuss it with you, it’s because it’s not a safe topic of discussion. Also, they know that the vast majority of their calls involve a small set of people, so their perspective is skewed. It’s the kind of thing you only talk about with other cops, etc.