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Originally Posted by multiweb
Financial assistance only compounds the problem. .
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Again this comes to lack of understanding Marc. My wife works for the education dept trying to help kids who are not doing well at school for a variety of reasons, including intellectual disability, autism, behavioural problems linked to an unstable home life (drugs, physical abuse, sexual abuse, parent with clinical depression, etc), and goodness knows what else. Then there's another group of kids above this who aren't so badly off but still don't have what it takes to make it on their own.
The fact is there are a lot of kids who don't have the ability or drive necessary to make it in life and they need ongoing help (not money) to be able to function acceptably in school and have a chance of being self supporting after school.
My wife does a couple of hours unpaid overtime every day because the workload is greater than the available resources, and some of those resources are disappearing with the latest budget cuts.