Yes, unfortunately, these single young moms you speak of are the
ones whose kids will eat up most of our educational resources, because
these are the kids who tend to have the behavior issues and learning
disabilities and disorders. Have you noticed that pattern? The moms
keep having kids because there is a plethora of subsidies available to
people in this situation, e.g., WIC, foodstamps, free breakfast and
lunch (if you call that food) at school, HUD housing, daycare
supplements, even supplements to their wages. In fact, most of these
kids are being supported about 80% by government. Yet no one feels
that we should impinge on the rights of these women to keep pumping out
babies with different fathers every year. It is pathetic. And
teachers have a higher and higher percentage of problem students to
deal with in the classroom.

ONE child with a severe behavior problem can disrupt a class. I
have been in many, many classes, K-12, where as many as 50% of the
students have some type of behavior or learning disorder that totall
disrupts the learning environment, drives the teacher crazy, and
deprives the normal students of their rightful education. Where does
it stop? And BTW, almost of the aides I see should not be working in
schools. They are often illiterate, slovenly, ignorant, uneducated,
untrained, and possibly dangerous to students.

Elyssa

On 11/07/09, Hermione wrote:
>
>>
>> But I also don't understand why someone who doesn't really need
>> to would want to have children and then not take care of them.
>
>
> Janine,
> Where I sub, this is the case all the time. The number of kids not
> being taken care of by their parents, granparents or guardians is
> amazing. Kids in most of the elementary schools come to school at
> 8Am and do not go home until 5:30 or 6 PM because they do an after-
> school program in the school every day except for Friday. That
> seems like a CRAZY amount of time to have to spend in the same place
> - for a kid and an adult. But then again, perhaps they are better
> off in the school for all this time as opposed to going home. I can
> see how this helps a parent who works until 5 or 6 o'clock because
> chances are, the wages that parent makes are not enough to pay for
> private after school care. But I'm digressing here.
>
> Many of the paraprofessionals in my school district are 19 and 20
> years old with 2 kids already and no husband. The young girls keep
> having babies. Even after they have one, they have yet another.
> Those children are the ones the teachers are going to have to
> handle. What MAY happen is that they have sex, get pregnant, and
> then accept the outcome and have the child - but it happens over and
> over again. And as far as preventing pregnancies, there is probably
> little motivation to because well, that's what we are supposed to do
> right? have sex and have kids. And it's not like it's a big deal to
> them because everybody else is doing it. It is a cycle that keeps
> repeating itself, although I have heard that the trend for this is
> slowly going down.
>
> Hermione

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