You can do better: you could build trains or a power grid.
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The school to prison pipeline starts with making kids feel hopeless.
There is a reason why Trump and his fellow traitors are investing in third party prison administration.
No. Don't look at actual state prisons ... not those. They are investing in fast setup detention facilities, presumably for ICE. Doesn't Trump seem way too interested in prisons all of a sudden?
Even looking at this selfishly, those kids are going to be adults, members of society. The better we set them up for success, the better our communities can be. This has got to be one of the cheapest investments in fighting crime and poverty.
If kids are hungry at school, that means they haven't earned their food yet.
If they worked in the mines, they could at least afford lunch.
Great argument for lowering the age limit for work on kids, amirite?
Indeed! Why's there a limit in stone countries in the first place?
Why do animals feed their young? Why should we not feed our children as civilized humans?
Animals are socialist and communist. I am capitalist. Capital rulezzzz!!
I have a friend who is wealthy, well off, and a retired school teacher ..... who still argues that we shouldn't subsidize free food in schools for children.
She argues that it's the parents responsibility to feed their children.
I asked her as a teacher what she would rather prefer .. a classroom where you know every child is not thinking about their hunger ... or a class where you know several kids don't want to be there because they're hungry
She still insisted it's the parents responsibility
Fuck I hate conservatives
Like, it is the parents responsibility. It's something that must happen and it's their job.
If they're not fulfilling their responsibilities you don't just let it not happen though, that's not how a functional society works. You make sure what needs to get done gets done, and then you act like a member of a society and figure out why they're having trouble and what you can do to help.
You might, if you're feeling extra civic minded, offer food to any kid who wants it and leave the concern and extra assistance to people having trouble with home nutrition.
Exactly ... you can judge a little but not to the point of punishing everyone including the children who have no choice in the matter.
And in the long run of civilization, if you help this generation from the failings of the previous generation, then you will have a better chance for a healthier future generation ... who will go on to make a more healthier generation after them.
As an Indigenous Canadian this is what my Elders taught me a long time ago ... we don't just live for the benefit of our current life but for the lives of those who are to come.
We either help the people alive today take a step forward or make them to take steps back and make life worse for those who aren't born yet.
My mom married a rich guy when I was 11. That got us kicked off the free lunch programs, and the clothing closet.
So I didn’t eat breakfast or lunch from about 7th grade on. I’d get dizzy by the end of the day. It was the worst on days where I already felt a little sick.
I still have severely disordered eating.
They fail understand the importance. It is sad. And you're spot on. We shouldn't punish children for their parents shortcomings.
I know I don't have to tell you this. But for those that haven't experienced it from childhood.
I'm from a country with free school lunch. And I can assure anyone that it's so much more, than just the food. In the lunch room, everyone is an equal. Our teacher also ate with us. Same place. Same food. Same tables.
Everyone is an equal. It matters. That way you don't get people who grow up thinking they're above the rest.
It transcends into adulthood and your work life. Bosses, CEOs, managers, employees, engineers, sales, janitors, IT, etc. It's not uncommon at all that they all share a table at lunch. As equals.
Your teacher, your boss, they're not Mr. Andersson, Professor Lundqvist, Doctor Hansen. They're just Robin, Emma, Karl, Billy. And I sincerely believe, that all starts in school.
That's a great image and example
It all goes back to our ancient prehistoric ancestral roots .... if we all share the same food together around the same fire, the stronger our bonds become to one another. The more we share with each other the more connected we become to everyone in our community.
That is a great lesson for any child to learn and understand.
They fail at empathy as well
She still insisted it’s the parents responsibility
Ok... and when the parents fail in that responsibility, we punish the children?
The sins of the father are visited upon the children and all that
And what was their genius solution to if the child's parents are shit? Remove even more of their support systems and leave them to die?
Sure love when innocent children are forced to pay the consequences of their parent's choices. Very ethical
In my experience, these personal responsibility types just don't care. The children die, the parents go to jail, and this is justice because the slothful get their just desserts or something.
I just don't get how someone can reconcile the belief that "children should suffer"
Oh, that's easy. They think those children deserve it, because they'll be like their parents.
Next time just tell her nope actually Jesus said it’s YOUR responsibility.
Conservitism is the mindset of the selfish
It's just myopic emotions. "Does this feel good for me right now?" If it's actually good, if it's good long term, if it contradicts a past stance - none of that matters.
Worse than that, it's the mindset of the short-sighted. These fucking morons wouldn't acknowledge the concept of government spending with a positive ROI even if you waterboarded them with Tang.
They'd rather create a shithole country where they have to cower inside gated communities to protect themselves from the impoverished masses instead of one where everybody is educated and prosperous, even though they themselves would be wealthier in the second case, just because they think everything is a zero-sum game and they can't win unless everybody else loses.
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They’re required by law to be there ~~8+~~ 6+ hours. Fucking feed them.
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*But feeding them doesn't benefit me.
*every republicunt ever.
It actually does, but then one doesn’t like to offer the utilitarian argument for feeding children. If it has to be debated down at that level, the day is already lost.
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