Re:This is a teenager
by lazyasciiart on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:10PM
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> At the end of the day, look... my mother taught in inner-city public schools. I know the problems these kids have.
> I feel these policies end up failing because the policy makers are from whole families (And are likely extremely socially conservative in their own life) and can't imagine anything so debased.
I feel like you don't know any better than these policy makers you are dismissing.
I'm not a policy maker nor claim to be one.
Re:This is a teenager
by lazyasciiart on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:44AM
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No. And you’re apparently not someone who knows about this topic, but you are claiming to be.
3 hours seems plausible if you need to take a bus trip with a transfer.
1:15 each way on the bus and 30min in the store
Re:This is a teenager
by richardlblair on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:04PM
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Bingo. Especially in poorly laid out cities.
I can't imagine anyone in a major US city spending 3 hours. Maybe rurally, but even the so-called 'food deserts' in a big city like LA ... it's just a few miles.
At the end of the day, look... my mother taught in inner-city public schools. I know the problems these kids have. They're given meals and such (and they should be), but that is not going to solve a cheating father, a mother too depressed by said cheating to lift a finger to do anything (and maybe whoring herself out or doing drugs to damp the pain?), and a family that sees the child as a cash bag. I mean what are we possibly to do? You give the food and still the child doesn't get it.
I feel these policies end up failing because the policy makers are from whole families (And are likely extremely socially conservative in their own life) and can't imagine anything so debased.