Understanding the Issues: Education

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I totally agree. I'm not saying the gov't needs to "take care" of these people for the rest of their lives, I just think some people need a helping hand at times and should receive the help they need.

The fact is our social services programs stink and they don't address the root problems. But that's a problem with lack of funding and with our society at large that tends to be reactive rather than proactive. Until the root issues are addressed we'll always have these problems, it's just an endless cycle.

Lets be honest and say what the real problem is. Its the parents and the lack of guidence, having children they cannot afford, signle parent families, etc... Just yeasterday here in our area a parent worked really hard to get parents together (in a low income area) to form a new PTA for their local school. Three other parents showed up on Monday night and this is a school with over 1,000 students. Thats the real problem and the problem within our schools These are not problems that the federal goverment can correct they are problems within each community which can only be fixed within the community. We have allready spent billions and all it has done is aided this behavior. If Obama is serious about chang then maybe we need to start holding the parents more accountable for their childrens action or lact of actions.