Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West

[Sunshine]

When i see things like this, my first thought...

how many of these "poor children" have cell phones, expensive designer clothing and shoes. I wonder how many of them go home to flat panel TV's with cable or satellite service.

Better question:

How many of them are being subsidized?

Pretty much everyone in KY is poor, with very few exceptions, those being people like me who moved away and/or got a good education. Yet, both libs and cons are having a shit fit over a bit of pork that will bring jobs to KY and lower the cost of consumer goods. Go figure.

 

[Sunshine]

Why are the red states so poor? Didn't repubs handout enough boot straps? How can they hate welfare and be on it so hard?

Prove that those on it are Republicans.

Red states

You have not proven that everyone in the red states are on government handouts. And you won't. Because they aren't. KY is a red state and I moved back here for the lower cost of living. My house on another lake would cost half a million dollars or more.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Prove that those on it are Republicans.

Red states

You have not proven that everyone in the red states are on government handouts. And you won't. Because they aren't. KY is a red state and I moved back here for the lower cost of living. My house on another lake would cost half a million dollars or more.

Who besides you used the word "everyone"?

 

[ScienceRocks]

When i see things like this, my first thought...

how many of these "poor children" have cell phones, expensive designer clothing and shoes. I wonder how many of them go home to flat panel TV's with cable or satellite service.

Better question:

How many of them are being subsidized?

Pretty much everyone in KY is poor, with very few exceptions, those being people like me who moved away and/or got a good education. Yet, both libs and cons are having a shit fit over a bit of pork that will bring jobs to KY and lower the cost of consumer goods. Go figure.

Yep,

Infrastructure, tech, science, manufacture and education = good I don't understand some peoples hatred of jobs and the growth of wealth.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Prove that those on it are Republicans.

Red states

You have not proven that everyone in the red states are on government handouts. And you won't. Because they aren't. KY is a red state and I moved back here for the lower cost of living. My house on another lake would cost half a million dollars or more.

 

[Sunshine]

Red states

You have not proven that everyone in the red states are on government handouts. And you won't. Because they aren't. KY is a red state and I moved back here for the lower cost of living. My house on another lake would cost half a million dollars or more.

Well, there you go. Everyone in Kentucky is on welfare.

Better fight that dam project. Wouldn't want too many hillbillies working and all.

 

[ClosedCaption]

You have not proven that everyone in the red states are on government handouts. And you won't. Because they aren't. KY is a red state and I moved back here for the lower cost of living. My house on another lake would cost half a million dollars or more.

Well, there you go. Everyone in Kentucky is on welfare.

Better fight that dam project. Wouldn't want too many hillbillies working and all.

Theres that everyone dodge again.

Cant you just admit that no one said and no one is saying or suggesting "everyone"?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why won't Mexico gives its people ssi and food stamps?

Maybe a fair minimum wage.

 

[g5000]

I grew up poor. It is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. I learned as a teen that I could have nicer clothes than even the rich kids if I wanted to babysit and buy them with the money I earned. And I know I appreciated those things more than the rich kids did. I didn't have to worry about food. Food was a priority for my parents and we always ate good. We didn't eat fancy, but we had good wholesome food.

Of course, we MUST teach this crop of 'poor children' (not) that everything is free and you no longer have to work for anything. Just put your pore li'l hand out and it will be filled.

You are missing the significance of this trend.

The economic condition of the West and South is sinking.

 

[HenryBHough]

Tell people often enough that they're poor and, especially if that will entitle them to government handouts, they'll start not only to believe it but also believe they can never be anything except poor.

See multiple examples in posts above.

 

[Katzndogz]

I grew up poor. It is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. I learned as a teen that I could have nicer clothes than even the rich kids if I wanted to babysit and buy them with the money I earned. And I know I appreciated those things more than the rich kids did. I didn't have to worry about food. Food was a priority for my parents and we always ate good. We didn't eat fancy, but we had good wholesome food.

Of course, we MUST teach this crop of 'poor children' (not) that everything is free and you no longer have to work for anything. Just put your pore li'l hand out and it will be filled.

You are missing the significance of this trend.

The economic condition of the West and South is sinking.

If the west can possibly shoehorn more illegals from south of the border, it will sink faster.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West - The Washington Post

A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country.

The analysis by the Southern Education Foundation, the nation’s oldest education philanthropy, is based on the number of students from preschool through 12th grade who were eligible for the federal free and reduced-price meals program in the 2010-11 school year.

That's a well known hate group. They are more than likely lying and or omiting facts
Snip

But by 2011, almost half of the nation’s 50 million public-school students — 48 percent — qualified for free or reduced-price meals. In some states, such as Mississippi, that proportion rose as high as 71 percent.

In a large swath of the country, classrooms are filling with children who begin kindergarten already behind their more privileged peers, who lack the support at home to succeed and who are more than likely to drop out of school or never attend college.

please stop obama and the dems from raising the debt, its killing the working class and making children suffer

 

[Pauli007001]

In liberal California, no !!!!!
Can't they just tax People more?
If they taxed the poor a bit more they could use that to help the poor.

So long as it won't negatively impact on the "Equality urinals" designed to liberate females by enabling them to stand up to pee!!

 

[Jackson]

I grew up poor. It is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. I learned as a teen that I could have nicer clothes than even the rich kids if I wanted to babysit and buy them with the money I earned. And I know I appreciated those things more than the rich kids did. I didn't have to worry about food. Food was a priority for my parents and we always ate good. We didn't eat fancy, but we had good wholesome food.

Of course, we MUST teach this crop of 'poor children' (not) that everything is free and you no longer have to work for anything. Just put your pore li'l hand out and it will be filled.

We certainly do have to teach this generation that working is the answer and staying in school, delaying having children until you have a career is the answer.

 

[DGS49]

(a) There is nothing "wrong" with being poor. I spent all of my childhood and several years of adulthood in the so-called, "Bottom Quintile" of household incomes in the U.S. And now I'm in the top quintile, not that that is any great accomplishment.

(b) If you want to find the reason why there are so many poor children in our schools (regardless of geography), the main reasons are the empty promises of the Welfare State.

Back when "Middle Class Values" prevailed in this country, most people tried to control the size of their families and didn't bring children into the world unless they had the resources to support them. (Roman Catholic teachings nothwithstanding). If you were NOT MARRIED, or were married and hopelessly poor, you took precautions not to have children, or at least to minimize the number of children, until your economic prospects were better.

But now we have the Welfare State, that promises perpetual food, shelter, and income if you pop out a few kids and create a "household." And it encourages you to blame your poverty on the bigotry and greed of others.

If the worst racist bastard on the planet had wanted, in 1965, to create a situation that would ensure the perpetual poverty of the majority of the descendants of American slaves, he could have never dreamed up a program as destructive as the American "welfare" system.

And yet, more than a trillion dollars into it, the creators of it are still convinced of its success, and WONDER WHY most African Americans are still living in poverty. And they talk about "Red States" and "Blue States" when addressing the poverty of the progeny of the Welfare State. What rubbish.

If you made this up, nobody would believe you.