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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
So instead; 535 Million to bribe fathers to stay? Or for mothers to discipline kids?
Besides turning the clock back to 1950, whats the answer?
Or just F-em, let them pull themselves up by their boot straps and live the American dream...
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RRH, i already see some common sense approaches posted here.
We were promised change from the so called "intellectuals" who are now running the administration and i see nothing but the same old, same old throw money into the bottomless coffer.
While I'm no expert i have, substituted in the inner city after retirement, my son teaches special education and my brother, a retired Navy Captain teaches in the inner city, so i have a bit of a handle on it.
Aside from the parent problems, a lot of these kids are "crack babies" and have difficulty concentrating among all the other things and need one on one help.
Imho, what we need is the money spent on rebuilding the inner city.
Companies who have moved out could be given tax incentives to
move back in creating green areas around their headquarters to break up
the asphalt and a hope for kids that there is something more and at the same time
creating jobs.
All these companies have training departments that could offer
after school programs to qualified kids to show how a company
works. Would give them hope and maybe some inspiration.
The kids who are making it in the schools could be encouraged to be mentors
to the younger kids.
Local colleges could offer credited courses for their students to mentor
these kids as well. Having done mentoring myself, i know a lot of students
would continue the mentoring as they built up relationships with the kids.
Very rewarding.
Just a few ideas from a country bumpkin, imagine what the BHO "think tanks "
could do if they fulfilled their promises. Right now it's all about votes, not the kids.
You can never go back to the 50s, the morality, values and integrity of that era are gone forever and you, you can't say F em,
you need the fresh ideas we were promised.
But to throw $535 million into a system that can't account for $60 million from their last hand out is utterly ridiculous.
Not one ounce of thinking there.