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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the feeding cats analogy. If FCPS (and other school systems) give so many free resources, the world will show up on the doorstep. That is exactly what has happened and the quality of our school system has suffered because of it.[/quote]

You are calling children stray cats. Do you have any religious or moral belief system? Or just “I want to keep my taxes low  even if that means stepping over starving children in the street”?[/quote]

It's an analogy. Don't take it literally. [/quote]

I’m the pp who was a free lunch student and am now well off. The problem with the “let’s not help so that the parents step up and be responsible” argument is that the parents won’t, in fact, step up, which is precisely why they are in that situation to begin with. The parents tend to have drug or alcohol problems, poor skills (all around- work skills, executive functioning, social, etc), and often have mental illness. The idea that seeing the children suffer will incentivize the parents to straighten up is really flawed. It’s an extreme example, but look at the family with 13 kids chained up in their house. There’s no reasoning with the kind of parents who are addicts or mentally ill. [/quote]

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