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Whyisthissobroken t1_iu45ok4 wrote

Reply to comment by itsonlyastrongbuzz in Police confiscate loaded gun from 7-year-old at Dorchester school by rabblebowser

#1 - pro choice, reinforcement of birth control in grade school and high school.

#2 - jobs jobs jobs. High paying ones. Take those who are not working and get them jobs.

#3 - Jobs can equal health care. But yes, better low cost healthcare.

#4 - day care to help those who have kids. And not just any daycare, hands-on, moral/ethical lesson plan day care. These kids are not getting it at home.

Then wait 20 years.

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_iu47779 wrote

Jobs require training and education, and education requires being raised to value (or see the value in) learning.

If you don’t prioritize or outright resent education, you cannot find meaningful work.

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Whyisthissobroken t1_iu49hfa wrote

It's lots of dials that all need adjustments. You are 100% correct.

I dated a woman years ago who worked in the Boston City schools. She was a kindergarten teacher. She said if a student cannot take off their coat, hang it up and come back to her - she said they could not pass Kindergarten. She said most kids could not do that. They couldn't follow 3 steps of instruction.

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tacknosaddle t1_iu4epqn wrote

Related to #4 but universal pre-K starting at 3 years old with free before and after school care that involves available tutoring.

There can be a huge discrepancy in learning for kids entering at 5 years old between those from a poor family and a middle-class one. Minimizing or erasing that difference is a huge step in improving the odds of the poor kids moving up the economic ladder. Kids who are well behind in 2nd grade have little chance of catching up and are less likely to graduate high school.

On the other side that can free up parents/caregivers to work more which can help the kids right now as well as padding their future.

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AboyNamedBort t1_iu4gzbd wrote

Boston has free pre k.

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tacknosaddle t1_iu4kbt5 wrote

Yes, but "free" and "universal" are two different things. There are not seats for every kid at 3 & 4 years old (by state law there must be one for all 5 year olds). It's luck of the draw whether your kid gets one or not. In fact, most seats for 3 year olds go to kids with identified learning disabilities and if you don't have an older sibling already in a school to get preference the odds get kind of long to get in. They've been expanding access, but it needs to be universal.

Washington, DC had much worse schools than Boston not too long ago but they are ahead of us on universal pre-K and it's demonstrating that the results are worth the investment.

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BasicDesignAdvice t1_iu4l8ud wrote

> High paying ones

Or pay more at the jobs that already exist.

> But yes, better low cost healthcare

By moving toward a single-payer system like medicare for all.

> day care to help those who have kids

Not even remotely enough supply. Universal pre-K would be a massive boon to society, but nah. Those kids should suffer instead while we blame their underemployed and under-educated caregivers who themselves cannot access economic opportunity, or are flat-out denied it.

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UltravioletClearance t1_iu46y0a wrote

Best Boston politicans can do is let the tech bros move into their neighborhood because there's no new housing for them, drive up rent prices, and send everyone else packing.

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Born_Ad_4826 t1_iu4b2s1 wrote

Uh..."let"? That's just what's happening, my dude.

And ahh yes, the old, "let's solve the problem of extreme wealth inequality by getting rid of those pesky broke people" in one neighborhood.

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_Hack_The_Planet_ t1_iu4u2sw wrote

> Take those who are not working and get them jobs.

Like military service? We also need more police.

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Whyisthissobroken t1_iu52565 wrote

Anything that pays more than 25 an hour.

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_Hack_The_Planet_ t1_iu551jv wrote

Those jobs don't come instantly. Do you honestly think that I worked my way up the McDonalds chain without starting as a fry cook?

The military has always been a way into higher paying jobs.

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