• bstix@feddit.dk
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    What’s the point in staying in school in such a society. So you can afford a trailer to live in when you grow up?

    Fuck it. Skip school, walk away.

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    Is this real? In richest country in the world? I just cant coprehend this, as i cant imagine this happening in my country.

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      According to that article, it’s just one school district in San Diego right now. And Cincinnati is considering it. This particular program is not common.

      About 0.2% of the US population is homeless at a given time. That’s more than half a million people. Most are homeless for less than a year, and almost 20% of US citizens have been homeless at some point in their lives. There is a lot of churn. Only about 2/3 are provided shelter.

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      Richest country on average. The money hoarders like Elon bring the average up. The median is depressingly low in comparison.

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      It’s definitely real. People think the homeless are just drug addicts but there are a lot of families and life is currently unaffordable.

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      The only part I doubt is the picture of a parking lot full of $50,000+ travel trailers being offered to the displaced families, schools don’t have the budget for that shit, and homeless families sure can’t afford those without going even further into debt.

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        Sometimes schools get trailers as overflow classrooms. The ones I’ve seen have always been more like the temporary office ones like you see for the foreman at a construction site, though. But it’s possible they’re using them for class during the day and then letting people sleep in them at night.

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          I very much doubt they would use private travel trailers as classrooms, when a portable (the temp office building) is cheaper and can actually fit a class of children.

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            We really need a different name for those things because I don’t think in the history of all schools ever, has one ever not been permament.

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              I honestly can’t disagree with that, my workplace has had one as a department office for 30 years now.

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      Just warming up, you could fit so many more children in there if you don’t allow the parents in.

      The kids could also work for the accommodation, a small fee to pay for a roof over their head.

      I could see Amazon sponsored schools in the near future, perhaps their education would be Amazon policies and procedures for warehouse work. And a good dash of god fearing to top it all off.

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        But who is buying products from Amazon when everyone is poor and homeless?

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    12 hours ago

    Next time, be a billionaire by pulling your bootstraps up. It’s not hard. Just get a small multi million dollar interest free loan from your parents