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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
If you have parents that had no educational background (not talking college, HS) other than lip service, can we expect them to do the hard work to get their kids to all your programs?
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That's a challenge. But most births, even (or especially) among the poor, take place with the assistance of health care professionals, so we have a touch point to make people aware of the available services and get the ball rolling. If you leave the hospital enrolled in whatever, you've at least got a shot.
And I probably should also have mentioned that ending the drug war and the carceral state would also do a lot to make struggling families more stable too.
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And the parents that will take advantage of these things are the parents that get their kids moving already. You would make the 50% graduates better off more than reduce the number, I'm afraid.
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That would be disappointing, but as a worst case scenario does not sound bad either.
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Unless you get to Wonk's "put the bad parents in jail" which, no offense, may be the most condescending thing ever posted here.
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It is unpossible that someone other than me said the most condescending thing ever posted here.
