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by dsnuh 2882 days ago
Are you sure you're not actually saying "poor parents shouldn't be allowed to raise their children"?
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Ideas like this are always presented as a "common sense" solution like "let's reduce welfare fraud" and no one would disagree with that, and then in actual implementation it ends up being "let's target poor people, people of color, and immigrant families" even if that's not what was intended from the start.

I fail to see how fixing broken homes (which we don't have a ready-made solution for) is an easier solution than making school more helpful to kids (one solution to which is what this article is about), so I don't think the parent's argument is made in good faith.

Yeah, you rarely see proponents of this considering the toxic households in Orange County or Beverly Hills for interventions.