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Gregory Morrow[_267_]

Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:

> wrote:
>> I think that's a hellafa lot of burden to place on already over
>> worked school districts. Although I have fond memories of cooked
>> from scratch lunchroom food. We might have pooh-poohed it, but i
>> think for the most part it was acceptable by most. It wasn't all
>> that long ago (a couple of generations?) that people were assumed to
>> feed themselves and their kids (or not as the case may be) and
>> schools weren't all in the food business.
>
>
> If such radical notions as parental licensing, much more
> comprehensive sex education or even compulsory sterilization in some
> cases were not deemed so socially odious, we'd have a good chance of
> fostering greater parental responsibility. But, as it is, the bottom
> line is that too many people have procreating without the capacity to
> care for their offspring, and many social sectors are having to step
> in an fill in the gaps.

Those "social sectors" are *the* problem. Folx know they can slack off and
some government agency can "step in" with multifarious sorts of aid, and
that simply perpetuates the problem. It creates a culture of dependence...

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Best
Greg