Have you got that right! I

jollyroger — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:53:24 +0000

Have you got that right! I have found myself weeping over interviews I hear on the radio with kids in shelters trying to get themselves to school everyday--it is just fucking heart breaking .

I have noticed that poor

erica20 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:22:58 +0000

In reply to Only an abandoned and malignant people treats its children like shit--Section 8 Vouchers are an obscene joke in the face of homeless children

I have noticed that poor people don't "live" anywhere, they "stay" somewhere. As in "I stayed at my sister's place for three years and then I stayed at my auntie's for a year but now she be stayin' with her boyfriend so I gotta find a new place to stay." It seems like a linguistic convention that reflects a harsh reality.

And you're right about the Section 8 stuff. By the time a young mother gets her Section 8 status, she's "stayed" with her kid or kids on a lot of couches and in a lot of spare rooms and basement not-really-apartments, maybe in a few shelters even. It's a lot of mayhem for the kids.

I'd make a $5 bet that if we were to fully fund Section 8, achievement scores in urban public schools would spike, with no other intervention.

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Have you got that right! I

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