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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Lacking a Sensitivity Chip

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Lacking a Sensitivity Chip:

Lacking a Sensitivity Chip

If you've been following the local news, there's a couple in our region, living in a $1.2M lakefront home, and the woman has been collecting welfare for a couple of years. She claimed she and her two children lived on $5,000 a year and her husband was the "landlord." They've collected over $100,000 and, of course, live pretty well. (To her credit, she did put down their real address but no one checked it.)

Now, naturally, we all feel disgust especially in this time of economic crisis when so many REAL poor people are suffering.

But now we get the poster child for this kind of nonsense.

You may recall that the former head of the Philadelphia school system, Arlene Ackerman, was ousted earlier