 masbury says: Useful graphic from censusscope.org Chart is from year 2000. So it would be more darker by now. Well, considering those in poverty in the US are really NOT in poverty and, in fact, have it quite good, I think attention would best be focused toward those in nations where they do not have the good fortune of directing their own outcome. Oh, willhelm, I don't even know where to begin. I work with poverty-stricken and homeless populations in Chicago, and I'm just shaking my head at your comment. I assure you that no child born in the projects has any "good fortune in directing their own outcome." From the broken families to war-torn streets to failing schools to racist police, I fear most of them barely have a chance without massive amounts of outside intervention. I'm not sure where you live or what parts of the US you have seen, but I'm guessing you've never seen Chicago's Southside or the trailers in New Orleans or the homes across this country with no electricity or heat or water or enough food. I'm absolutely flabbe... Thanks, dulios. Have you read Bill Strickland's book - something like Making the Impossible Possible? He was an inner-city kid in Pittsburgh 20 years ago who has created an amazing arts and job training center there. I am finding it frank about the crippling multiple challenges that ghetto kids face, and yet astonishingly hopeful. Thanks for your comment. It is so easy for white, middle class Americans to fall into the assumption that we all start from the same starting line, with an equal shot at the American dream. Your words grip my heart. I work with poverty-stricken and homeless populations in Chicago, and I'm just shaking my head at your comment.Funny! So do I. Professionally and Personally. That is exactly what you should do. That is what WE THE PEOPLE should do. Government should not play a major part. It appears they (the Government) have sucked actual compassion away from your heart and replaced it with pity. From the sound of your comment it actually appears I am the one helping those in poverty and you are the one telling them that they can not make it on their own. Well, if that is the case, you are burdening them with your sickness and enabling their condition. There is no helping fellow man UNTIL YOU RECOGNIZE THE CONDITION OF MAN! I work as a community organizer. I organize people to get things done for themselves. The people's demand for change and accountability falls on both the government and the private sector. I organize people to get things done for themselves.Congrats on that. I help people DO things themselves. Like not be in poverty. For youth that includes mentoring, advising, educating, finding and buying nice clothes for interviews, self-presentation skills, self-worth, counseling between themselves and employers, and most of all on the recipe for staying out of poverty - complete high school ( at least), don't have kids out of wedlock, do not acquire a criminal record, and maintain ANY paying job. Government is not an answer - It is a syringe that dehumanizes and becomes harder and harder to put down. I believe, being Christian, we should put the power in individuals ... Government is often the answer in the neighborhoods I work in, be it demanding improvements in the schools, increasing police patrols, putting up stopsigns, getting increases in funding for community programs, healthcare, job training. We also address real world issues of what to do IF you have a criminal record, no high school degree, and children. Government is often the answer in the neighborhoods I work in,Government can help. Government is never the answer. Government is the means. Really? "If we took all of the people in the country, at this time, who are living below the poverty level, making less than $10,990 for an urban family of four, and simply gave them fifteen thousand dollars per family to raise their income out of the poverty level to about $25,000, that would cost our government $126.3 billion. Yet, $642 billion is being spent a year to relieve poverty and we are not accomplishing it. Why not?" @masbury I haven't read the book. Thank you for recommending it. I've been an admirer of yours on CM for a while, I'm glad we're following each other now! I went to college in Iowa some years back. Hugely underrated state!  Really? "If we took all of the people in the country, at this time, who are living below the poverty level, making less than $10,990 for an urban family of four, and simply gave them fifteen thousand dollars per family to raise their income out of the poverty level to about $25,000, that would cost our government $126.3 billion. Yet, $642 billion is being spent a year to relieve poverty and we are not accomplishing it. Why not?" The people's demand for change and accountability falls on both the government and the private sector.Very well said, I cannot agree more. It is not as simple as just giving people money, and if you work with the poor you should know that, willhelm. If you need some more education about poverty, I suggest the following: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195101685 http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Poverty-Russell-Foundation-University/dp/0674008766/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202276298&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Never-Were-Nostalgia/dp/0465090974/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202276361&sr=1-2 I shudder to think that you work with the poor when you seem so ignorant of poverty. It is not as simple as just giving people money,If you see something in my comment that led you to suggest I believe that, then you are a mighty thick individual. You can blab all you want. Facts are facts. I would suggest that this map is similar to the one showing distribution of people who don't complete high school. ie the darker areas match from map to map. That is what should be discussed, and probably without rabid insults. willhelm, I was referring to the quote you chose for your previous post. I have no doubts about what I do everyday, and what I see every day. I am passionate about it. I organize individuals to make positive change in their communities. I have seen individuals reclaim their own power, and working with others they fight for economic and social justice not just for themselves, but for their entire communities. Ultimately, this is how we end poverty: facilitating democracy. I am a poverty expert. I get to say this, because I grew up in a welfare family, was homeless, went to foster care, went to graduate school, studied poverty for over 5 years, earned a Ph.D. with poverty as one of my areas of expertise, and I taught social policy to students at Washington University in St. Louis for four years. Basically, wilhelm is part of the problem. We have had ignorance about poverty stain the conversation for too long. I am writing a book on the subject to show how conservatism actually led to my family being broken up. Our poverty multiplied and was made worse by bad social policy (1980s). Thanks for your story, dmegivern. Voices like yours are the most important when it comes to understanding and overcoming poverty. I can't wait to read your book! Actually, dmegivern, you are part of the problem because... "If we took all of the people in the country, at this time, who are living below the poverty level, making less than $10,990 for an urban family of four, and simply gave them fifteen thousand dollars per family to raise their income out of the poverty level to about $25,000, that would cost our government $126.3 billion. Yet, $642 billion is being spent a year to relieve poverty and we are not accomplishing it. Why not?" Funny thing...90% of the people I assist wind up NOT in poverty or on government assistance. It appears you just help the "impoverished" to be, well, impoverished. It sounds like you do great work, willhelm. Sincere congratulations on the success rate of your work with individuals. We do the same work, except I work with individuals at a grass-roots level to enjoin community change. dmegivern teaches social policy to future social workers and has testified before Congress for funding of important anti-poverty programs that affect entire communities. People in impoverished communities need mentors and job training. But they also need better communities. No need to fix communities. That is entrapment. You help people get out of bad communities and let the bad ones die. I can just imagine the look I would get if I told one of my youngsters: " I don't want you to leave your community and come to mine...Let's just put some window dressing on yours instead".. That is really motivational, isn't it. I cannot take credit for any success rate. I am just part of a team. However, I also live in a state that does not recycle the "impoverished" ( if that is what you want to call them). We also are not part of this problem, which you will not answer. "If we took all of the people in the country, at this time, who are We are humans, not people to be referred to only by our economic status. Recycling people into poverty. Are they trash to you? I used to hate working with know-it-all "volunteers." Like Eva Peron said, "When the rich think about the poor, they are poor ideas." Bingo. "Communities" are where the poor live. "Communities" are where the schools are. "Communities" are where the people of color live. Let them die? My work is not about window dressing, it is about improving schools, increasing neighborhood safety and relations with police, advocating for job training for ex-offenders, fighting for an increase in the minimum wage and an expansion of health care. As answer to your hypothetical query about throwing some cash at an "urban family of 4". In the real world, here in Chicago, a family of 4 making $25,000 a year would be living paycheck-to-paycheck, one disaster away from economic ruin. Last comment, because as I have mentioned to dulios, you are not worth our time, willhelm. We are accomplished people who can debate with other *thinkers*. Money spent on poverty is not going to resolving poverty right now. It goes to subsistence. We have reduced the poverty rate among the elderly by fathoms (thanks to Social Security and Medicare). Children remain the poorest, and they have few investments made directly into their well-being. Why did they take myself and my siblings away from our parents instead of finding money to keep the family together? Ronald Reagan. We are humans, not people to be referred to only by our economicI am sure you do ! They step all over your racket with their actual compassion. Right? Again, dmgivern, you reveal profund stupidity to suggest I think throwing money at the issue is the answer. It is the direct opposite of my view. TO HELP PEOPLE YOU MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND THE CONDITION OF MAN. Clearly, you do not. let the bad ones dieI almost fell down from my chair. Tell me you didn't say that. "Communities" are where the poor live. "Communities" are where theYes. Help them get to better communities where conditions are not such that kids become trapped in an endless cycle. Invite them to yours. Or help them attain the means to get into mine. I almost fell down from my chair. Tell me you didn't say that.Forest fires are Nature's way of renewal. Let the community die and a new,stronger community will replace it. What is community in your context here? Buildings, roads, infrastructure......or people? People. But I do not mean the people dying.. unbelievable. Such idiocy. (I'm sorry I forget for a moment this is clipmarks). I also want the Republican and Democrat Party to die. They are communities in a sense. "Invite them to yours." I live in a "community", where we just fought for and got new sidewalks this summer, by the way. "Or help them attain the means to get into mine." NOBODY I know would want to live in your neighborhood, willhelm. I live in a "community", where we just fought for and got new sidewalks this summer, by the way.LOL I live in a community where I just had to pay a lawyer 1500 bucks to get the addition to my house approved. Damn Neighborhood Association! Sorry. Messed up. HERE you go. LOL?????? Amazing. If you think that fighting for basic infrastructure and getting permission to add on to your home are the same thing, well, I'm done. We'll have to agree to disagree. You keep advocating for individuals, and I'll keep organizing the neighborhoods where your clients (?) live. Go ahead, have the last word. I'm out. wilhelm, you don't leave the community to death, you fix them and build them. If you end up leaving communities to die then you will eventually be exhausting your own reason for living. If you think that fighting for basic infrastructure and getting permission to add on to your home are the same thing,Last word? You reveal clearly you perceptive abilities. My comment was clearly sarcasm. Sorry, Arifsali, I have seen communities die. I have also seen the rebirth and there is amazing contrast. The point is you offer people an alternative and supply the means and assistance to help themselves. The community does not actually die completely. The cycle of recurring cancer is removed, beauracracy is reduced and the community is allowed to breathe and grow. Arifsali, You must love "poverty" to be such an advocate for "rebuilding" communities. No community has ever been rebuilt without the old one dying. without the old one dying.You're now twisting, you earlier said you 'leave communities to death by getting people out', this is not as same as you 'revitalize the community by eradicating the poverty from the people'. Nobody likes poverty, what in the world are you talking about. Your methods have not worked, there's ample proof. Actually, you misunderstood. I hoped my forest fire analogy would make clear. As for methods not working...I don't know where you live, but where I live revitalization is rampant in communities that have run the course. The "projects" are smaller and the homogeneity is advancing. Communities are no longer systems unto themselves. They are part of a larger whole. Good ol' know-it-all Willie strikes again....your arrogance is showing again, Willie. Nice Job. Homogeneity?!? Is that what he thinks America should be? (I am using the third person so as NOT to imply any desire to get into a one-on-one debate with willhelm whatsoever!) Please, I think most of us realize that the thing that makes America so special is our diversity! Until we realize that this is our greatest strength, we will never fully reach our potential as a society. Never. The American Dream is a fallacy! It's a sop to justify the selfishness of capitalism based on the fob of one going up while 999 are doing worse. So you debate the merits or demerits of government intervention or else charity to relieve the ills of society, getting worse and worse. Christianity was intended to raise ALL boats. Capitalism raises only the boat of the strongest and most powerful. It fosters corruption and selfishness and yet is so moralistic on issues like abortion. Is the answer ever more and more poor kids? A guarantee of no solution! In whose interest? Cheap workers? In 'old' Europe, we do not have these extremes of poverty or homelessness. Why? Must be that dirty word soci... In 'old' Europe, we do not have these extremes of poverty or homelessness. Why? Must be that dirty word socialism, you know like Jesus Christ's Christianity, and not the Old Testament capitalism.POP, POP, POP!! Homogeneity?!? Is that what he thinks America should be?Well of course. Thats part of the coded language of Americana. Everybody must behave as "Americans", that is like "us" (white, protestant and male). Thats why they panic when they hear words as multiculturalism and social justice. It means that they would have to accept that their world view is not dominant and that they would have to share with others. That their values are not superior or absolute in any way shape or form. That scares people like Willie to the core. Please, I think most of us realize that the thing that makes America so special is our diversity!E pluribus unim, quickstar. I am sure it your ideal to divide people into groups and classes. That is how you make victims. You hateful low-lifes disgust me. How about spreading hope and love in your communities, not despair and blame. Aha! Fear of the other strikes again! And the old Up-is-Down tactic as well. Why is it so hard to accept that others are different and that is a good thing? Separation? How about realization! We don't have to be exactly the same, we gain strength from our differences, different experiences, different words, different (yet shared) realities. Our common bounds bring us together with the understanding that no man, no person is an island and therefore can learn about others and more importantly about himself by exposing himself to that which is not like him. But that is "hateful" somehow! I think it is you who is hateful Willie, you hate anything that is not like you and that is ... The corrosion from selfishness within breeds contempt for those less fortunate, and leads to such a greedy pleasure in it's contemplation. There is also the personal level. You need to be a real generous Christian to want your fellow man to be your equal. If you are a jealous hateful person then you'll get off in looking down your nose at those you consider beneath you. Yet the real bastards on top need your kind to maintain law and order, their law and order, with property at the top. This explains why the police attract fascists. It's the old old 'divide and conquer' rule used by the elite through using pretentious gobshites like you for ions, hoping for crumbs from the master's table. So gobshite, how high has your boat risen while the American elite have got richer and richer. How much is your dollar worth? How good is you... "He that pities another does so for his own selfishness." "To pity the poor is not contrary to selfishness...We are glad of the occasion to testify friendship, love, and attract others to ourselves without ever giving anything." "He that pities is empty himself. Love is contrary to pity and in it action exists to improve the condition of man." "There is no bounty to be had in charity except the bounty that results from a selfless act." You see what happens when you become a lackey of the elite. Incapable of original thought and relying on the the words of great men that you hardly understand. Some of your quotes seem to support the side that you were earlier against! Maybe you like playing word games as a substitute for argument. Or maybe you have had a real conversion to Jesus Christ Christianity when you stopped feeling sorry for yourself. You do know where JC's loyalties lay. Great guy! "He that pities another does so for his own selfishness."Interesting quote, a window on your beliefs? There is also the personal level. You need to be a real generous Christian to want your fellow man to be your equal.Alarmingly true. And the point of our faith would be "to love the Lord God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves." In response to a weasel's question: "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus tells the Good Samaritan story - in which the only good guy is a despised, supposedly heretical foreigner who takes care of someone who's a foreigner to him, asking nothing in return. And is this not the real issue behind the endless debates on poverty, healthcare, immigration, and war? We don't want to lose our stuff... Outstanding comment, Masbury, and practically my whole point in a tidy nutshell. Excellent! Especially the good Samaritan reference. It only takes YOU. YOU be the help. YOU make the difference. To put it off on some utopian ideology, just to make yourself feel compassionate, is misplaced and lazy. It absolves you of the responsibilty. I guess that is why the Right is responsible for a vast majority of assistance to the poor and the Left bellyache. You are right. As witnessed by the comments of the Leftists here, we do not love them as we love ourselves. It has become American to love them out of pity, to keep them in their destructive environment, to tell them there is no hope for them, to ... Outstanding comment, Masbury, and practically my whole point in a tidy nutshell. Excellent!A great trick in attempting to align yourself with the moral high ground. Better to salvage something out out your deficient position. I'm not going to bother checking back as to who introduced pity, but I do know who it is that persists in continuing to fixate upon it. It has become American to love them out of pity, to keep them in their destructive environment, to tell them there is no hope for them, to rob them of dignity.I see no evidence of you contention except from yourself. Robbing anyone of their dignity is the key to any solution or attempt at a solution. ... Outstanding comment, Masbury, and practically my whole point in a tidy nutshell. Excellent!A great trick in attempting to align yourself with the moral high ground. Better to salvage something out out your deficient position. I'm not going to bother checking back as to who introduced pity, but I do know who it is that persists in continuing to fixate upon it. It has become American to love them out of pity, to keep them in their destructive environment, to tell them there is no hope for them, to rob them of dignity.I see no evidence of you contention except from yourself. Robbing anyone of their dignity is the key to any solution or attempt at a solution. ... Another attempt at word play or infer some deeper understanding of the subject?It's called prostyliting Righty. Once you understand that, you will understand living poor and voting rich. Prostylitizing, next to prostitution of a god? Yes, it was tried in Ireland during the Famine. Soup and a change of faith or death. Most we took the soup but reverted pronto. We have excellent charities in Ireland. There was a time when they were the mainstay for the down-and-out. Not now. They are auxiliary. I'd say socialist Britain lead the way for us with state involvement. We see no connect at all between charitable help and society fulfilling its responsibilities. Of course the rich capitalist elite would not see it that way. In a just society they would be required to give more and they're selfish bastards. So they have their media slander social justice at every turn. Un-American ... In 'old' Europe, we do not have these extremes of poverty orAmen to the spirit of the comment, but you might enjoy a correction. After the Exodus, God himself was said to create the Hebrew economy. It was based on equal distribution of land to all families (land, of course, being the means of production of wealth). Then land could be bought and sold and some would grow wealthy and some not. But here's the amazing part: Every 50 years, the land was to be re-distributed. Bought property was only yours until the Jubilee, then it went back its ... That's the only economy God himself, in the Bible, is said to haveThat's another good point, Masbury. I would say Liberal democracy comes as close that ideal as HUMANLY possible. Again, though, I have to ask. What about all the non-Christains? Not everone shares your morality. I find it un-Christian to try and push your morality on society. I do not, however, find it un-Christian to stand up against immorality. Here is a little fact about economics that might shed a little light. If you are willing. You see, economic opp... Your partisanship, Masbury, does not help. With all due respect, it divides.And I would say the same thing to Conservatives that have a "sink or swim" attitude toward the poor. You can choose what you want to be in life. You can be one that focuses on anger, jealousy, sorrow, greed, pity, resentment, division and superiority. Or you can be kind, empathetic, generous, honest, compassionate and faithful. You cannot choose for others. Nor should you want to. I'm still not convinced that you are not engaged in some ridiculous word game. An example is --- I wonder if is a fact that it is not the solving of the issue that is important rather having the issue for the purpose of dividing.I'm also not if there is more than one personality replying! Why else a batch of thee comments and one appearing to quote yourself??? Your partisanship, Masbury, does not help. With all due respect, it divides...as if you were replying to yourself??? Are you a split personality or are you 2/3 people. Are you over stressed? Are you hitting on your partner physically? These are all important questions that you must face. Some have s... Stay clear of ... IrishmenYou are funny! Actually, Masbury, he is serious. But you can believe what you want. It appears you can be unswayed by appeals to rationality. I cannot understand. It seems, if you were sincere, that you would engage in discourse with open-mindedness. The outlandishness and bitter partisanship is alarming. Why must one always appeal to the partisan emotions of one side or the other? We get nowhere. Utopianism is for fools. Let us address the causes of Poverty in America: drugs, crime, alcohol, dropping out of high school, having children out of wed-lock, laziness, reliance on gov't rather than oneself.WRONG. More like the amount and quality of education, family circumstances, intelligence or lack of it, poor health care which may lead to poor health, mental or physical handicaps, mental illness and lack of proper treament for it, discrimination, and sexism. Then there are the working poor in America. Those people who work hard and are one medical mishap away from poverty because many people don't have medical insurance. There are the people who are charging necessities such as medicine and g... Then there are the working poor in America...and who did the dying in America's adventures abroad. Also, if the factors that cause poverty were different than I cited, then you would see a more homogeneous map above. Poverty would OBVIOUSLY be equally dispersed. Instead, it is confined to certain areas where people and values are such that a priority, or access, has not been placed on education and where agricultural concerns are very high. Also, on more localized areas where gang violence is very high and in dying communities where businesses are vacating. Futherrmore, economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have spelled out clearly the recipe for staying out of poverty and the success rate for those staying away from the traps I listed. IF the issues I listed above were not "caus... He defended the CAUSE of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me? Jeremiah 22:16 But your eyes and heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and on extortion Jeremiah 22:17 Then there are the working poor in America...and who did the dying in America's adventures abroad. ... and were introduced to drugs by the CIA to prevent them acquiring their civil rights. It strikes me that there are those in America who need the poor so that like the beggar on horseback they can look down their snooty noses and so maintain the obvious class system that perpetuates the racism, sectarianism and the other ills of the society. Yes amend the constitution to all men were created equal except the poor. There is also the personal level. You need to be a real generousI would not think generosity to have anything to do with it. That sounds like Masbury's paradigm. Helping the poor should not be a matter of generosity. It should be a matter of the heart. It should be a matter of LOVE. That is why I reject the staus quo of cyclical failure and poverty pimps like Masbury. Masbury has not show... When we have that state, Masbury wins. But it will not result in the eradication of poverty. It will increase the poverty to include a moral poverty that makes you a subject to authority, not WE THE PEOPLE !! I would not think generosity to have anything to do with it. That sounds like Masbury's paradigm. Helping the poor should not be a matter of generosity. It should be a matter of the heart. It should be a matter of LOVE.Are you sure the same person wrote these sentences? Previously it was your separate comments that contradicted each other. Now its alternative sentences! I've asked you previously if it's word games instead of intellectual debate on a serious matter that interests you. Your use of words like pimp to attempt to win your argument, totally undermines your case for being a professional in this area. Your lack of clarity of thought indicates that it's a case of ... Your mind is the distraction. The Lord said: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Would you rather be served by your State or by your neighbor? Ah, the simplicity of the golden rule! I luv it. The Lord said: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."That's the same lord that said an eye for an eye and allows the Zionist kill at the rate of 100 to one!!! I do know the Lord of LOVE. Would you rather be served by your State or by your neighbor?If I was hungry and you gave me to eat, would I care much who gave food to me? Why these word games? It's not as if you are any good at them, even when you set the agenda. It is easier for you to expect others to agree with you than it is to care that the poor eat, are educated, and kept healthy. You instead are more concerned that others think what you think, act like you act, believe what you believe, and follow you down the road of disaster because you have some idealogical outlook that prevents you from taking personal action and places your selfishness ahead of the poor. People like you and Masbury would rather have it your way, in a World under your order, than to actually help. It is far more important to you that it is done your way rather than done at all. I think if people really care for the plight of the poor they will get down and dirty, eschew the real insulation of luxuries in their own real lives, and share what they have as real individuals with real poor people. This does not exclude the equally important task of political engagement to challenge structural poverty, but the latter without the former is a sham. People like you and Masbury would rather have it your way, in a World under your order, than to actually help. It is far more important to you that it is done your way rather than done at all.I've being attempting to make sense of your word games. I've not put forward any particular solutions. Dealing with your contradictory inputs has being the bulk of the discussion. When you attribute something controversial to another it is common to back up your allegations with quotes. You only quote yourself, which is pretty pointless! Have you any experience at normal forum interplay? Your attempts at insults are pretty pathetic and school boyish. I have not yet being close to my ... I think if people really care for the plight of the poor they will getNow this is certainly more like it. I agree. I would only argue that poltical involvement is not compassion. It is distraction. But a necessary evil as I have made clear throughout this thread. Especially in the comment where I refered to Masbury's lack of synergy in his approach. It is not love or compassion to ... Abailart, you are right on. Even willhelm agrees. I traded in my middle class lifestyle to live and work in poor communities of color (or, as real people say, the ghetto), exactly because I felt the need to put my money where my mouth was. My organization fought for and won a terrific program wherein the state of Illinois will pay the tuition of students who commit to becoming teachers in the public schools. I run this program and I have over 60 students in the program. Mostly women, but a few men, who might have otherwise had no way to pursue a college education, empowering themselves and by extension their much-maligned communities. Political involvement is neither "compassion" nor... Except, perhaps, derision. My organization fought for and won a terrific program wherein the stateSee, now this is the kind of trash I am talking about. Why do they have to commit to becoming teachers? Why must they jump through your hoops to deserve your compassion. And why teaching? Why not Scientists? Why not Engineers? Why not Business men and women? I do not mean to discount your good works. It is just obvious to me that your compassion is either misplaced at best or highly judgemental at worst. Abailart, you are right on. Even willhelm agrees.Abailart actually agrees with me. As ... Respect? Willhelm, my organization does all sorts of work. The teachers' program is only a small part of the work we do. And why teachers? Because we did a study that found that teacher turnover rates in the ghettos is unacceptably high. Our research showed that teachers who come from the community that they teach in are more likely to stay in that school. I recruit candidates from the schools, teachers aides and assistants and even security guards and lunchroom workers. People with a passion for their schools, their kids, and their neighborhoods, but without the means to go to school. We've been working on this program for 5 years, and my first set of students is ready to graduate in the spri... That is a wonderful initiative, dulios. It will stick with me, and help inform what happens in the future. Thanks, and very best wishes. Why do they have to commit to becoming teachers? Why must they jump through your hoops to deserve your compassion. And why teaching? Why not Scientists? Why not Engineers? Why not Business men and women? |
