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These kids won't be returning to those rooms or homes at the end of the day, will they?
And while we are on the topic, I WOULD ADVISE ALL PARENTS to HOLD THEIR CHILDREN OUT of SCHOOL for the ENTIRE YEAR because of SWINE FLU!
Want to AVOID SWINE FLU? KEEP THEM HOME!!!
Just claim it is UNAVOIDABLE and the BEST, SAFEST METHOD for GUARANTEEING the LEAST POSSIBLE RISK to EXPOSURE! Just for the year until the crisis abates. Nothing unreasonable.
Meanwhile, we have TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS BORROWED and SPENT on BANKS and WARS -- but the KID DOESN'T HAVE a HOME TO GO TO after school. That explains some of the stinkier ones I guess.
"Surge in homeless students strains nation’s schools; More than 1 million lack stable housing" by Erik Eckholm, New York Times | September 6, 2009
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - In the small trailer her family rented over the summer, 9-year-old Charity Crowell picked out the green-and-purple outfit she would wear on the first day of school. She vowed to try harder and bring her grades back up from the C’s she got last spring - a dismal semester when her parents lost their jobs and car and the family was evicted and migrated through friends’ houses and a motel.
Charity is one child in a national surge of homeless schoolchildren that is driven by relentless unemployment and foreclosures.
Um, WHERE is THEIR BAILOUT, huh?
Not big enough for one? Too little to be saved?
But this government is working for you?
This is SCANDALOUS in AMERICA, readers!!!
HOMELESS SCHOOLCHILDREN!
The rise, to more than 1 million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry out their responsibilities - and the federal mandate - to salvage education for children whose lives are filled with insecurity and turmoil....
Well, I've posted enough links about where the tax loot is going and which interests are benefiting. Not the kids.
Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, an advocacy group, said there were 679,000 homeless students reported in 2006-2007, a total that surpassed 1 million by last spring,
“It’s hard enough going to school and growing up, but these kids also have to worry where they’ll be staying that night and whether they’ll eat,’’ said Bill Murdock, chief executive of Eblen-Kimmel Charities, a private group in Asheville that helps needy families by providing food baskets and money for expenses such as utility bills and toiletries.
Maybe they could get a table for lunch at the U.N.?
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Meanwhile, look who is charging you dues!
That's not a religion; that's an organized crime syndicate (and worse) performing shakedowns.
Since 2001, federal law has required every district to appoint a liaison to the homeless, charged with identifying and aiding families who meet a broad definition of homelessness - doubling up in the homes of relatives or friends or sleeping in motels or RV campgrounds as well as living in cars, shelters, or on the streets.
The law lays out rights for homeless children, including immediate school placement without proof of residence and a right to stay in the same school as the family is displaced.
Do they have the right to search their crotches?
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