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Whirlpool (the appliance manufacturer) donated washers and driers to schools and increased attendance.
According to Whirlpool's research, one in five school children report difficulty finding clean clothes to wear to school. It turns out that offering free in-school laundry services to kids with attendance problems increases their attendance.
When compared to factors like economic opportunity, unemployment, and institutional racism, laundry seems pretty inconsequential in the fight to keep kids in school. But while that might be the case for their parents, for a ten-year-old who already has the odds stacked against them, having nothing clean to wear to school could be the deciding factor in whether or not they want to face their classmates that day.
I can remember my grandmother telling me that she thought lunches in schools were a wonderful innovation, because they didn't have anything like that when she was a girl, and many children couldn't come because they wouldn't have lunch. I'm sure back then nobody thought of lunch as something school should provide. Now apparently laundry is the next big innovation.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday August 17 2016, @09:52PM
lack an adequate foundation that we take for granted ... But when you address those foundational problems
It turns out that offering free in-school laundry services to kids
That post was nice progressive signalling and I acknowledge your anonymous devoutness to the progressive religion but personally I suspect its more like absolute shit tier mothers bellowing something in a drunken rage at 6am like "GD it you're going to school today because I'll be damned if I'll spend my crack money on laundry detergent for your clothes so you gonna do the free washing at school". And of course I pick on the mother in this example because coincidentally enough the groups that excel at failure in general also tend to excel at single-parent-hood so the kids have no father figure in their lives of any sort, which surely has no impact on why their boys grow up all F'ed up in the head and go straight from school to prison.
I'm not sure a cultural strategy of helping shit tier mothers reproduce their genes by having the successful people pay to wash their kids jeans for them so they got more money for crack is a smart policy or makes sense in a general sense.
On the other hand.... Via the usual genetic methods of reversion to the norm and occasional mutations I'm sure some of the kids with worthless mothers are a better genetic bet than their mothers were, so maybe under that doctrine its worth investing in the kids, in that on average they can't be as worthless as absolute bottom tier mothers. I'm not completely against the idea and acknowledge it has some minimal level of value and isn't entirely bad. Just mostly bad.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @10:10PM
> I suspect its more like absolute shit tier mothers
That post was nice racist signalling and I acknowledge your anonymous devoutness to the bigotist religion
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @10:16PM
Shitty single moms come in all colours, you come off sounding more of a bigot than him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @10:24PM
I love it went fools bite on the pedant trap. Shows that they've got no actual rebuttal.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 17 2016, @10:28PM
the groups that excel at failure in general also tend to excel at single-parent-hood ...
so they got more money for crack
If you can't hear the dogwhistle in phrases like those then you are probably a bigot too.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday August 18 2016, @12:41AM
We don't have enough information in front of us to indicate what percentage of affected kids have crack-addicted parent(s).
More likely, the fact that many states offer a minimum wage below the poverty line means that low-educated but hard working parents trying to do their best simply can't afford those things that we take for granted. Food, or laundry? Books, or hot water?
I would be very interested to see a state-by-state comparison of minimum wage levels versus percentage of people living in poverty (or using this laundry service)...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 18 2016, @04:05AM
I can only hope you reincarnate poor in the inner city somewhere. Poor and black, and female for preference. At this point I don't even think you're trolling; you say this shit because you really do believe it, not to cause reactions.
What's the opposite of virtue signalling? Because whatever it is, you're doing it. And I can't help but notice that people, like you, who accuse others of "virtue signalling," don't seem to have any themselves. Is that envy? Or perhaps that gives you more credit for self-awareness than you deserve...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...