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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what you'll have instead is tons of young kids not being educated and roaming the streets. Smart move. [/quote]

Don’t you see that as a parent failure? I do. [/quote]

Of course the parents are failing these kids. That's not even a question. The point is that so is society. Are you really saying that if parents fail, the rest of us have no responsibility to feed/education/protect those children? What a sad view of civilization and humanity. [/quote]

So they need to open schools to parent these kids? Maybe you are not aware but schools have been giving students in Baltimore City schools two free meals per day for years. All students. They have been giving out three meals per day since mid March. If their parents can’t get them to go to school, how do you suppose schools should? Social workers can only do so much. CPS is overwhelmed with abuse and neglect cases. It would need to be serious neglect to get a child removed from their home. Educational neglect doesn’t count. Every year, I have students absent 50+ school days. CPS doesn’t take those cases. I’ve had one case in 12 years make it to truancy court. The parent didn’t show. Nothing happened. This was a kid in 4th grade who missed 100+ school days a year every year. I’m not what the solution is but it is not to open schools so kids can get off the streets. There is a pandemic and Baltimore City numbers are awful. They made the right call. [/quote]

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