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Originally Posted by casstony
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.
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Those extreme cases would be a minority and that's why we have safety nets in place. I agree with that and support it. But would it be fair to assume that most of the needed money goes to welfare cheats instead? They're the ones I'm talking about. The army is a good one for lost kids. Teach them discipline, teach them a trade, teach them a degree, sense of self esteem. They're recruiting. Loads of various opportunities, medical, engineering, heaps of choices that can make for an easy integration back to civilian work force.