Free drug paraphenalia - therein lies the problem…
And yes, there should absolutely be an effort made to help these people get into rehab and get a job and get back to a normal life.
PS: That story is brutal. I feel really bad for her mom, but at least she tried. So sad that there are people who just don’t care about themselves enough. So scary as a parent to know that this is what can come of our kids 
When is testing normally done?
This is really sad… I read the whole article, and I realize that some of these student don’t want to be home with their parents an extra year, but there’s a lot of people who’ve talked about having their kids redo the pandemic school year (ie, stay “back” a year), and it seems like Brianna would benefit from that in college admissions… If she could just redo the 11th grade classes and take the APs in 12th grade, she’d be a much stronger candidate.
Also, it really mirrors things that everyone’s said - the at home schooling hurt low-income people the most. I feel like Redwood City made a huge attempt to address the tech issues. I haven’t talked to a lot of low-income families about how it went, but they gave everyone a laptop, had open-hours to drop in if you had a tech issues, and also issued hotspots for those who needed them. It doesn’t help with the “kids watching youtube and on discord 24/7” issue, but at least hopefully most kids could make it to class. What i heard was that the most difficult thing was multiple kids in one bedroom for different classes - hard to hear what your teacher is saying. And RCSD tried to address that by having limited distance-learning in person spots in gyms.
I read thru the entire article too. Before I even started I thought to myself I bet the story involved some broken homes and poverty. And it did. The mom came from a broken home, got married and divorced three times and wasn’t involved in her kids’ lives when they were growing up.
By just being around and provide our kids with a stable and loving environment I don’t think we have that much to worry about as parents. We don’t need to be rich. We just need to be around and give our kids the love and care they deserve.
By far the biggest risk factor to kids is growing up in a single parent home. It literally beats poverty, race, and everything else. Guess what’s happened since we started programs in the 70’s to help single parents? We’ve literally incentivized the worst situation for kids, and then we wonder why kids are doing worse. No amount of catch up spending is going to fix it either.
Granted, we’ll never see policies to encourage 2 parent families. That’d require blaming people for their own mistakes. That’ll never get someone elected. Telling people they are victims and blaming everyone else will get someone elected.
If liberals actually care about kids, minorities, and all their other alleged causes, then they should be designing policies to reward 2 parent families.
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How do you do when you’re always blogging? 
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Sensitive question. One male, one female?
I’m not sure how much that’s been studied. I think a lot of it is just there’s a LOT of time and money involved with raising kids. It’s more efficient to have 2 parents living in.one household sharing the time and cost.
Probably yes - definitely having a father in a kid’s life reduces a lot of problems, and for a lot of kids knowing that they’re with their biological mother can be equated to being loved. (or conversely, there is a struggle when a kid is adopted out to wondering why they were “abandoned”). Obviously some kids deal better with accepting non-biological parents than others do.
Also, it’s best if it’s the biological parents even if they’re fighting (as long as it isn’t violent) because they have more of an interest in their kid’s well-being than foster parents or step-parents (there are many stories of moms’ boyfriends and step-dads who did inappropriate stuff to girls).
Wait. You mean if the taxes on it are too high then people just buy/sell it illegally? Wow. Who could have predicted that? You mean people don’t automatically follow all laws?
Maybe he could suspend income taxes as well for Cannabis businesses and employees…
If people don’t want safer Cannabis, I’m not sure what can be done for them.
Why does it need special taxes above regular sales tax?
another reason why abortion needs to stay legal and easy
Well if you know a fetus will become a druggist, probably you make a strong case for abortion. But, if the fetus will become a Steve Jobs, you just killed someone who could change the way people interact with technology. Steve Jobs was born of white woman to a middle eastern father and luckily for steve, abortions those days were not as easy as going to a bathroom.
Why not save a lot of money and just make birth control mandatory?