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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's more complex. I used to be the COO of OSSE. I really don't know where all the education money goes. We also need housing and mental health services.[/quote]

What we need is the political will to tell people to parent their children.  To tell women not to have multiple children by multiple men to whom they are not married when neither parent has the education or job skills to take care of their children.
What we KNOW is that finishing high school and delaying child-bearing until you are an employed adult is the way out of poverty.  Bonus points for getting married and staying married in terms of beneficial outcomes for kids.
Do we need programs that help people who failed to make those prudent life choices?  Yes.  But we also need for politicians to be very vocal about what society's expectations are in terms of people getting themselves together.  Instead, all DC politicians do is blame "the other"---schools, gentrifiers, systemic racism---without every uttering a single word about personal responsibility.[/quote]

In the current climate? Yeah fking right. You’d be canceled so quick. Everyone is in the scolding stage. I don’t think we’ll ever get to the honesty stage where you can actually call people out to and just say “hey stop making stupid decisions. Stop blaming external forces. You need some self accountability and to give a fk if your kids can read and write.”[/quote]

+1. You’ll be accused of being a racist. [/quote]

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