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1. t1234s · 1790606891 · focus · HN ↗

   Having been a student in the mid-late 90s in US public school I can say I witnessed this often. Public schools are storage facilities for delinquent kids with useless parents. These people are a waste of tax money to try and educate. After a certain amount of incidents they should be removed from the public school system and left with the parents to deal with. Instead the public school is forced to try and deal with these delinquents. They take time and resources away from the smarter youth who are trying to do the best they can in the public school system.

   1. palmotea · 1790611073 · focus · HN ↗

      > Public schools are storage facilities for delinquent kids with useless parents. These people are a waste of tax money to try and educate. After a certain amount of incidents they should be removed from the public school system and left with the parents to deal with... They take time and resources away from the smarter youth...

      You seem to have a severe deficit of compassion. Also a deficit of strategic thinking.

      Some significant fraction of those "delinquent kids" are that way due to some generational cycle of poor treatment and/or bad circumstances. If, as you advocate, little attempt is made to break those cycles, you'll just leave the problem to fester and get worse.

      Also you're advocating punishing kids for being the victim of their own circumstances, which is just heartless.

      The correct response to this situation is focus on finding better ways of helping those kids.

      1. cucumber3732842 · 1790611737 · focus · HN ↗

         >The correct response to this situation is focus on finding better ways of helping those kids.

         With who's resources and at the expense of what other things could be done with those resources. Money is fungible. A dollar spent warehousing problem kids is a dollar spent not helping the decent kids become good and the good kids become great. Education is a numbers game.

         1. underlipton · 1791060891 · focus · HN ↗

            >With who's resources and at the expense of what other things could be done with those resources.

            You seem to be under the mistaken impression that capital is apportioned with regard to virtue. Anything but. Thus, we shouldn't decide how that capital is used based on whether or not someone "deserves" it, but by whether or not it's better for society. I'd prefer "delinquents" under supervision, versus LARPing The Warriors.

            OR

            Elon Musk is a trillionaire, we're spending hundreds of billions to build data daycares; appealing to sanity in capital distribution was out the window years ago.

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