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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @02:01AM
What does it tell you that having laundry machines at school encourages kids to attend school? I mean, no offense, but are we India or Somalia? For fuck sake.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday August 18 2016, @10:12AM
It's going that way, yes. All the great social advances of the last century are gradually being undone by those Libertarian geniuses
It's much better or something because rich people get to keep more money and other resources all to themselves and poor people have to work much, much harder. God is often on their side too. So it must be right. Or something.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].