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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work as a case manager in DC and have worked in Baltimore city in the past.

A couple things:

1) DCUM always talks about how these kids are growing up in homes where parents are working two jobs.  Uh no.  The vast majority of these parents are not working and never have.  Their parents never worked.  Lets get real here.  The kids coming from households where parents are working two job are actually THE SUCCESS stories. 
They are very rare but those parents tend to be involved in the lives of their kids.  It's not PC to talk about this but there are generations of kids born to parents who don't work, have never worked and make bad decision after bad decision.  Almost every pregnancy (out of wed lock and to parents with no jobs) is purposeful.  I work for a medicaid 
plan in DC and one of our most often requested services for young women is IVF (which we don't pay for).  A lot of people are in the hell of their own making. Really, really, really bad decision making.  Some of it is just cultural, some of it is due to drug and alcohol use, some is due to low IQ.  People who don't have one of these things
working against the usually rise out of poverty into the working class.

2)If you really want to help people rise above poverty then their first, second, and third need is housing.  You need to give people free housing. It's the biggest obstacle to upward mobility in cities, especially cities like DC.  Anyone who works with the poor in DC hears requests for housing at a rate of 10 times anything else.  We hear it all day, every day.  If we could fix housing, we could fix just about anything. But this is very, very expensive to house people, especially in DC. And it is super expensive to house people who don't work and who will never work (frankly who don't intend to work, have mental illness so they can't work, have 4, 5, 8, 12 children and can't work, etc).  I mean, in DC it's $24k-48K per year, per household.  It's very tricky because most of the people who work with the poor (as nurses, case workers, social workers, etc) can't even afford to live in DC themselves.

Anyway, some very complex issues that won't be solved in our generation.  But housing would be a good start.

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Do you think eliminating any and all benefits connected to kids and only supplying kids with food, clothes etc at school would solve the problem?[/quote]

NP.  Let’s incentive lower-SES parents to give a shit.  For each child with at least a C-average and no more than 5 missed days of school during a semester, you get a check for $250.  If your child is also in the top 25% of their class (and no more than 5 missed days), you get an extra $250.  That’s per semester, so you can get up to $1,000 per kid per year for attendance + performance.[/quote]

The majority of the students that are not proficient are actually receiving As and have GPAs that are well above passing. The schools are a celebration of dysfunction at every level. There are many stories of parents being confused because their child has a 4.0 but cannot read.
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How do the parents know? Aren’t they the,selves illiterate?[/quote]

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