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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (99294)	3/23/2005 1:07:41 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

As I said, I have the flu and am not very articulate at the moment. But the points you are making are not very much related to what I said. I never argued that welfare was helpful in getting children through school. I was discussing very early intervention, at the preschool level, for children at risk and their parents. I think any intervention after early childhood is not very likely to make much of a difference. The first thing that needs to happen is for children not to be hungry when they go to school, and while money can't buy everything, Bush cutting food stamps funding certainly doesn't send a feel-good message to me about his intent for children. And if you think the voucher program will pay for poor children to go to the same schools rich children go to, you are sadly mistaken. The amount of money voucher programs would dole out might send disadvantaged students to some sort of program in a dismal church basement, and at the same time would further hurt public education in bad neighborhoods. I didn't say you were a heartless, educational black hole. But if you want to be perceived as compassionate, try writing that way. Explain the ways you are involved with children, and your experiences with the YMCA, instead of writing posts with lots of generalizations. Then I think people would understand where you are coming from better.