Mcps has a dropout problem

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Anonymous wrote:Well over half are either in ESOL or are Hispanic https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/07/montgomery-co-public-schools-have-a-dropout-problem-heres-why/

Well I guest the response to this topic says it: who cares?

I am not being sarcastic. I truly believe that if these students and/or their families do not care, others should not (yes, SHOULD not - or at least PUBLIC RESOURCES should not be used to deal with this).

They care, but often they are facing very immediate economic needs that can’t wait two to three years to address. A third income earner can make the difference between rent or eviction, vegetables and fruit or malnutrition. This was not an unusual pattern in white immigrant families two generations ago. My XH’s grandmother left school at 15 to work FT in a store. Her sacrifice made it possible for the family to survive and her younger siblings to graduate HS. T

Many schools provide three meals to kids on FARMs.

But households also include kids too young for school (and therefore FARMs) and adults too old. There are students who bring home part of their school lunch to feed younger siblings.

I've never seen that and I've been in high-FARMs high schools for the bulk of my career. Maybe younger kids do that.

makes sense, however

Not really. The majority of kids too young to be in school were born here, so Mom has both a WIC card and a SNAP card. For those families totally illegal, there are many, many nonprofits and food pantries. No babies are starving back at the house.

You have to know how to apply and get those resources and its not that easy. Its a very small amount if its just for the kids and not the adults. You couldn't live off that. There are absolutely kids who starve.

Again, the UMC mom who has no knowledge of the system. Women give birth in hospitals. If they are too poor to pay their bill, a social worker enrolls them in Medicaid. They are then enrolled in SNAP and WIC. The only infants who starve in the US are those whose parents are too high to remember to feed them. Check the ICD-10 codes. It is great that you are compassionate, but romanticizing and excusing bad parenting because people are low income is not compassionate.

You clearly haven't used the system. Its not automatic and no they aren't just enrolled in SNAP and WIC and medicaid. There are qualifications. Each are different programs with different qualifications and WIC is a completely separate program in a separate office. WIC only gives so much formula and parents do run out. You have no compassion. There are not many nonprofits and food pantries and most work together and have limits.

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Because they are not neighbors. They consider themselves ‘family’, which is how they get away with living in that situation. It’s technically illegal to have multiple unrelated families living in a SFH in Montgomery County. However, when pressed, these families say they are all ‘related’ so there can be no enforcement of housing code laws.

So, you choose. Either they are all families, and can support each other with $40, or they are unrelated and need to be forced to move out because they are living there illegally.

Or, there are multiple unrelated families living in a house, which is not legal under current Montgomery County housing code, which is based on the assumption of one nuclear family per housing unit - and all of this is entirely irrelevant to the facts that

1. Saturday School is not free, and
2. $40 is a lot of money for people working low-wage jobs

I don't know about where you live but where I am there are ALOT of latino kids in high FARMS schools who play soccer on rec teams. Many clubs do assist if you are low income but it isn't free.