And we have to keep the state income tax for what? State services? Where?
"Schools scramble to help students with no place to live" by Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent | October 6, 2008
With the numbers of homeless across the state on the rise, local school officials are scrambling to provide services and absorb costs for an expected surge in homeless students.
Boston, for example, has 100 more homeless students than at this time last year, troubling educators who say that homelessness threatens not only children's ability to perform in school but also their well-being.
"For children, school is not only the place where they learn and grow, it's also the place where they get their most reliable meals of the day, breakfast and lunch," said Boston's Emergency Shelter Commission director, Jim Greene.
Is that ever a GLOBALIST, FAMILY-DESTROYING ATTITUDE or what?
Unfortunately, I have come to the PAINFUL CONCLUSION that "ejerkashen" has nothing to do with the welfare of our kids, and EVERYTHING to do with BRAINWASHING OUR YOUTH through the STATE SCHOOLS!!!!
Student homelessness has skyrocketed over the past few years. In the three academic years starting in 2004, official tallies show the number of homeless students across the state climbing from about 7,000 to almost 12,000.
Another PATRICK PROMISE BROKEN! But then again, what does he care? He's been eating good!
In addition to social and academic extras, one of the largest expenses for the homeless students comes from the cost of transportation. Districts are required by law to transport homeless students from wherever they end up living to a school in their original community. The bill can go as high as $200 per day per child, or more, if the student has special needs that require tailored equipment, officials said.
How can homeless people "live" anywhere? More MSM word games!
In Holyoke last year, the cost of transportation for the homeless reached $244,623, according to Holyoke school Superintendent Eduardo B. Caballo. In some communities, outside organizations have stepped up to the plate.
In Fitchburg, for instance, after school officials canvassed the city for help, L.L. Bean donated backpacks for all the homeless students enrolling this fall, and
How about FINDING them a HOME instead?
Of course, "flushing . . . millions of dollars away supporting a highly profitable industry" when it comes to $300 million in taxpayer dollars for Hollywood is o.k., even as the price of a school lunch rises; paying $13 million for a computer software system that could have cost less than $3 million is all right because the winner was a close friend of the House speaker, even as my poorer-than-dirt district "has been struggling to close a $2 million budget gap."; the lottery shellling out "millions of dollars" for sports tickets for "lottery officials, their family members, and friends" is fine, even as schools are closing; making interest payments to banks to the tune of "a staggering $22 billion" for the Big Pit, as we call it around here, is required, even as bridges are neglected across the state; and again, paying off banks like UBS, who can "demand repayment of an additional $2 million a month beginning in January" while also receiving a "$179 million payment," while the state pension fund loses $1 billion dollars -- which still didn't stop the executive director from carving himself a nice "$64,000 bonus on top of his $322,000 annual salary."
Oh, and did I not mention the $1 BILLION dollar giveaway to the pharmaceutical corporations, even though "it's never been easy to turn a profit in biotech?" Flush that money away, too, taxpayer. Of course, the war looters were next in line for a handout. And should the state be appropriating money for a "multimillion-dollar reconstruction" of golf courses?
Nor is it RECKLESS to BORROW the STATE INTO OBLIVION so they can PAY INTEREST to BANKS while SITTING ON $2 BILLION DOLLARS!
But they have EMPTY POCKETS for HOMELESS KIDS!!!!!
Pffffffffttt!
