Is it worth reeducating the slums?

You can lead a horse to water...

Money isn't the answer. Until the family starts taking responsibility for the child and their education, nothing will change.

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We need to better educate people to help them understand how to succeed in life

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You can't educate people that don't want to be educated. More money won't help.

When you are 14, you don't give a frick because you don't know how shitty reality is. When you are 31 you understand shite you do can't last

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They already figured it out. Live like an outlaw and suicide by cop and your family gets millions. No stress, no working for 40+ years for retirement for your family. Just take a bullet and your family is set.

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That applies to about .0000000000001% of the slum dwellers.

No

Family and community is what makes for strong adults.

Look at basically every study done on the background of most successful people.

You need to start slow. Trade schools. There's no reason to tell every kid in the projects to go to college. In fact, In fact that's irresponsible and stupid.

Plumbers, electricians, mechanics, hvac, etc... Are all very important and well paying careers. We need to implement a massive trade school program along side high-schools in the city.

Let a generation of people learn a trade and make money and then raise their kids to work harder than they did and eventually you have a community of people working to better it everyday.

Work for welfare programs should also be mandatory. If you're on welfare you should be working to get off of it.

Throwing money into a broken system is asinine.

I hate government handouts and hate spending more money for failed education systems but in this one area I find myself wanting to make an exception. I would like to have publicly funded trade school educations for those who cant afford it.

I think this would go a long way to solving the ignorant unskilled worker problems, and while it does nothing to fix the "lazy people" who just don't want to work, it does give poor people the skills so they can get good paying jobs.

There's no good answer. Collectively our ancestors screwed up royally for a few hundred years and left us with a problem that has no easy fix (It's also not going to go away unless each and every one of us spends more time than we're willing to spend solving it).

But the first step honestly seems clear - stop promoting (via policy) undesired reproduction. This means the looney left needs to realize that the "mo kids, mo money" welfare system isn't working as intended, and the religious right needs to bite the bullet and stop thinking that "abstinence only" education and placing restrictions on birth control are going to do anything other than continue to kick this can down to the next generation.