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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: News Roundup

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: News Roundup:

News Roundup

In his continuing effort to be possibly a bigger idiot, Newt Gingrich now said this (in qualifying his previous remarks on having students act as janitors in schools to save money):

On Thursday, at a campaign stop in Iowa, the former House speaker said, “Start with the following two facts: Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’ unless it’s illegal.” (His second “fact” was that every first generational person he knew started work early.)

Even if you believed this nonsense is putting kids to work at their schools the answer to any of these problems?

Start with the fact that most poor people DO work. Start with the fact that people with incomes of $25k give