Posted on 08/17/2016 1:30:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Last year the good people at Whirlpool created the Whirlpool Care Counts Program and donated seventeen pairs of washers and dryers to school districts in St. Louis and in Fairfield, California. The schools then invited kids with attendance problems to bring in their laundry to be cleaned while they were in class.
The results were astounding: over 90% of participating students increased their attendance that year, at-risk students attended almost two more weeks of school, and each student got approximately 50 loads of laundry done at school.
(Excerpt) Read more at scarymommy.com ...
The schools were simply interested in GETTING PAID —if they skip school, they get nothing.
Who really thinks this will result in kids LEARNING MORE.
I’d wager these kids who attend but hate school end up distracting kids genuinely interested in learning.
Innovative, yes. But probably destructive.
Yep.....
I agree. What conservatives should is step in and find a way to keep this a private initiative.
I’d like to see their grades to determine if the program is successful. Anybody can show up to school...but are they learning, retaining what they learn, and passing?
Is there a finite end to the largess of the taxpayers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
“Originally dealing primarily with maternal deprivation and concordant losses of essential and primal needs, attachment theory has since been extended to provide explanations of nearly all the human needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, from sustenance and mating to group membership and justice.”
“from sustenance and mating”
We pay them to breed and live comfortably.
No end to stupidity.
I agree. What conservatives should is step in and find a way to keep this a private initiative.
They’ve done that in some schools in VA, according to mu daughter.
I agree about the article BUT you have to attend to get (school) leaning and grades. I knew of migrant farmer kids who were bullied for wearing smelly clothes when I was in school. A simple effort like this by a manufacturer or retail store is a good thing in my mind. If the kids can learn how to do it themselves, all the better!
I’m a believer that kids will learn more if they wear uniforms.
In 66-68 I always did my laundry in the Home Ec. machines. Gym clothes, jeans, jackets, etc. Teacher actually encouraged boys to do this.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness...
Our school had a small locker of toiletries. Many times a teacher had to pull a child aside and privately give them a little bag of soap and shampoo. I remember that one boy I had to do that with. I'm not exaggerating when I say that his body odor literally made eyes water. He told me that his mother was ill (doing chemo, as I found out later) and couldn't get out of bed, so he was making do best he could. We got him to bring his clothes into school, and we washed them in the athletic washing machines.
There was a little girl whose mother would sell everything she could get her hands on to support various habits, including her daughter's clothes. So, one of the female teachers set up a little closet for her at school. She would wear her rags into school early, and then get changed into the nicer school clothes. At the end of the day, she'd switch back. She didn't dare wear the nice clothes home for fear her mother would sell them.
Anyone who has ever worked in a school has similar stories.
We donated a old washing machine to my wife’s elementary school. Accidents happen. Quick cleanup is beneficial.
When I was in 5th grade, there were a couple little girls who rode the same bus as my siblings and I did. They were in kindergarten, first grade. They would show up barely dressed, unwashed, unbrushed hair, always hungry, a lot of times with no lunch (school didn’t have a cafeteria, so you had to bring your lunch). We found out that the older girl was “in charge” of getting both of them ready for school, in time to make the bus, but didn’t really know what to do. She was barely six. We started sneaking a wet wash cloth, brush, ziplock baggie of cereal, etc. out every morning to help them get cleaned up and fed on the bus, then started asking our mom for an extra sandwich or an extra piece of fruit in our lunches to give them to eat. Anything we could to help them. Well, we thought we were being so careful, but it didn’t take more than a couple weeks for our parents to catch on that something was up and made us ‘fess up to what was going on. My dad rode the bus in with us to see for himself. He was horrified. Turned out their mom was passed out drunk about 90% of the time and didn’t even bother to get out of bed in the mornings to help the girls get ready for school, but there was hell to pay if they missed the bus. No food in the house most days for lunches. There was a baby in the house, and Mom wasn’t taking care of her, either. My dad reported the situation, the Air Force got involved, and shipped Mom back to the States almost immediately. I’m not sure what happened after that. I think they shipped the dad with the kids back to the States, too.
I realize we have a whole culture with their hands out and a sense of entitlement, and as a country, we enable that, which is unfortunate, because sometimes, there are people who are in a desperate place and need help.
Hey, at the very least they will learn how to work in a laundromat, worst case they have a leg up on the other inmates in the prison laundry room.
WIN-WIN
Crusty send her pantsuit to Wong An Sa Chineze laundry..she like them to clean her pillows too. Extra crusty.
1. Poor kids who don’t have parents taking care of them and don’t come to school dirty/messy.
2. The kids who got dirty on the way to school after being beat up and preferred to go home and stay there instead of coming back in.
3. The teenaged mothers who could either muck through class and then chores or come to school and have chores done by others
4. The poor kid who pooped/peed on themselves and otherwise would go home and stay there can now get it washed/cleaned up before class
A friend had a renter with kids who received housing and clothing vouchers. The renter didn’t know how to run a washer or dryer. They would wear their clothes until they got dirty and throw them away. Clothing vouchers would pay for the replacement clothes.
The same renter was responsible for mowing the lawn. She didn’t know mowers needed gas and oil. My friend ended up doing the mowing so no one got hurt.
The rental house was trashed when they (thankfully) left.
An amazing outcome, not one that I would have expected. But exactly who is doing the laundry?
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