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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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/[/quote]

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).[/quote]

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[/quote]

Many schools provide three meals to kids on FARMs.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Posts like this make me think there are people who post here who have zero actual experience in Montgomery County.  MoCo does make it very, very easy to access free services.  Especially for kids.  And oftentimes, the people who use these services know exactly how to work the system to their advantage.  Immigrant communities have strong networks to transmit information.  Lower income kids in MCPS are not starving.[/quote]

Not famine in Yemen type starving, but they do experience food insecurity and a lot of kids are stuffed with cheap carbs to pacify their hunger. They end up getting diabetes while also experiencing malnutrition. I grew up this way in the inner city so I know that a plate of rice for dinner is not how a child should be raised. I had to be treated for malnutrition when I arrived at college. Campus Health had no idea how to treat some of the conditions I had. They had to refer me to Children’s Hospital which had a doctor who specialized in foreign adoptees. [/quote]

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