Oh, wait......
“Children at hope” Washington ping.
“sigh”
My kids are “at risk”.
They are at risk of having any hope for a prosperous life and future thanks to the nitwits in D.C.
312 Legislative Building
Olympia, WA 98504-0429
(360) 786-7656
Olympia Office: (360) 786-7656
Legislative Hotline: 1-800-562-6000
Sen. Rosa Franklin
PO Box 40429
Olympia, WA 98504-0429
Rick Manugian, Senate Democrats Communications Specialist
(360) 786-7569 or manugian.rick@leg.wa.gov
Annette Swillie, Legislative Assistant
(360) 786-7656 or Swillie.Annette@leg.wa.gov
And this is a new thing because in the past, children had no such obstacles.
Insanity reigns!
Oh, Pu-LEZE! Slapping a 'progressive' label on anyone doesn't change a thing, but to Democrats, eradicating negativity is the method they use to keep everyone exactly where they are.
Why work if your needs are met? Why try to better yourself if your surrounded by positive attitudes?
The simple fact is that adversity shapes character, but there's no need to put any effort out to change your condition if the world is already full of sunshine and rainbows.
Newspeak doubleplusgood.
They should just right to the heart of the matter and call them “Victims of evil right-wing Republicans.”
The single biggest obstacle is being born to crappy parents. Democrats should simply legislate that all kids can choose their parents.
It is actually pretty easy to figure out what poor children need. They need what they are *not* getting at home, experiences that are *complementary* to what they know, not just more of the same.
And, in all fairness, this is what other children need as well, complimentary experiences that they are sent to school to learn. But those experiences differ considerably between poor children and those with greater family wealth. Pretending their needs are the same does both an injustice.
While all children need this list of things, poor children are less likely to get them at home, and *need* these things to achieve in life.
Discipline, a sense of order and rationality. This includes many things, from school uniforms, to “reality based curriculum”, objective evaluation, a strong sense of competitiveness, strict classroom discipline, frequent hygiene and safety instruction, drug and alcohol avoidance, trade craft instruction and apprenticeship, home economics, and finance.
Of course there is considerable overlap with children from middle class and wealthier families. But the poor children’s big emphasis is that they can become economically self-sufficient in their lives, as this will give them and their family the greatest number of other opportunities. Giving them the tools for economic success.
Children from wealthier families also need these things at first, in that they likely have some gaps in their instruction, but the majority of these students have already learned it, and better, at home, so for them it is a waste of their learning time.
Having a firmer foundation in discipline, a sense of order and rationality, they need to have these tested, not by disputing the basic value of these things, but by showing how reality can upset order and reason. Because they will likely face challenges in the undisciplined, disorderly, and irrational that they will have to overcome in the future.
Without such complementary learning, they are often hypnotized by theories and deceived by abstracts, which can be very, very bad.
For example, on paper, communism seems to be orderly. This is how it intellectually traps those who have not learned how it utterly fails in reality. And how such failure can be horrific.
And people like Al Gore are befuddled by abstracts, interpolating and extrapolating them far beyond reason. In his case, “CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The level of CO2 is increasing. Therefore we are all going to die!” Very bad reasoning, based on an oversimplified abstract applied to an extraordinarily complex and not well understood planetary system.
As part of their instruction, middle and upper class children need to be confronted by subjective and judgmental situations, paradoxes, irrationality, disorder, insufficiency, and the true unknown, which can be quite unsettling.
Likewise, some degree of this will happen as well in the instruction of the poor children, and they too will have to adapt and overcome any number of obstacles. But their priority will be “first, do the work and get paid, and then do the crossword puzzle.”
The stigma should not be removed from being poor. That removes incentive to remove yourself from poverty.
You may commence with the Washington state bashing - it’s obvious that we deserve it for electing such imbeciles!
It is this idiot liberal’s fault that these kids are “stoopid” and I hold her responsible for all the “stoopidity” ever done in the name of the “stoopid.”
John Stossel is always spot on.