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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eating three meals a day and having after school activities seemed to make a difference with my children. [/quote]

Did you or the school provide them?[/quote]

I don’t think who pays for it makes a difference.  [/quote]

Of course it does. When you pay for them, the school has more money for other priorities.

When the mission of one institution, like schools, is expanded to include what should be the mission of other institutions, like social services, then it becomes difficult to allocate the money fairly. Because, obviously, preventing starvation is always more important than new textbooks or smaller classes. So when can we work on those other, educational priorities, when the social service basics could, conceivably, consume most of the institutions funds and time if allowed to?[/quote]

[b]Then you should work on increasing funding for social services.[/b][/quote]

[b]Why is this kind of thing always the response?[/b]

The only way I know how to work for that is electing people who care about it and lobbying my elected officials.

We have decided as a country that we don't give two shits about social services, we only care about lower taxes and test scores. So, those people who do care found a work-around by using test scores as the rationale for adding needed social services to the schools. That these services are needed still doesn't change the fact that they are not helping improve our schools' focus on education.

This is like saying that if I am told to bring $10 for lunch, but then told some other people don't have lunch money so we'll all contribute $5 so they can have $5 for lunch, too, what's the difference? We all have lunch, even if it's a crappier lunch. I would like to have $10 for lunch, and I would like their $10 for lunch to come from some other pot of money so we can all have good lunch.

If the schools get $15 million, I would like to spend $15 million on core educational priorities. Find the $3 million necessary for social services somewhere else, and if we can't, then let's all admit we don't care about people and take up a charitable collection.[/quote]

Because it's the answer. If you want social services to do it instead of the schools, then social services need to have the money to do it. If you don't want the schools to do it, and social services don't have the money to do it, what you end up with is nobody doing it. And that's not what you want, right? It's not what I want.[/quote]

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