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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hard to be a curmudgeon on this topic with stories like this one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/for-hungry-dc-kids-stuck-in-snow-schools-open-their-doors-for-meals/2016/01/25/b24c417e-c3a0-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html?[/quote]

What I find heartbreaking about this story is that if the couple had made a responsible choice, had 1 child, then they and their child would not have needed free food and would have been able to provide for their own family without public assistance. They could have ended the poverty cycle. Instead, they will dragged 5 kids through a lifetime of poverty and give them little hope of breaking out. Every school should be required to provide poverty education - that is how to get out of it and how to avoid it. It needs to be specific and pointed. By high school, every single kid should understand exactly how one breaks the poverty cycle and no the blanket answer "get an education" is not explicit and doesn't do anything. Half the time kids in high poverty areas believe getting high school diplomas is " getting an education". It's not. It is just the foundation for getting an education that helps you get a job and a living wage.[/quote]

Let me guess...you're "pro-life".[/quote]

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