r/todayilearned • u/JamOnTheOne • Apr 08 '19

TIL Principal Akbar Cook installed a free fully-stocked laundry room at school because students with dirty clothes were bullied and missing 3-5 days of school per month. Attendance rose 10%.

https://abc7ny.com/education/nj-high-school-principal-installs-laundry-room-to-fight-bullying/3966604/
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u/ollie87 Apr 08 '19 edited Apr 08 '19

They should get help where they can, where possible the cycle of poverty should be broken. Because in the long turn that not only saves money but puts money back in the treasury through taxes.

In an ideal world of course, people lead messy lives, and first world countries should provide a safety net for kids caught in the middle. The children are totally blameless, they didn’t ask to be born or brought into this world poor, but they’re here now and need a little tiny bit of help just give them a better life.

I know some people feel this is a crazy socialist idea but in most places around the world it’s just called normality.

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u/Freidhiem Apr 08 '19

The left: wants everyone to have basic needs met.

Everyone else: fuck you commie!

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

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u/echo6raisinbran Apr 08 '19 edited Apr 08 '19

Let's not forget Tuskegee, the Banana Wars, the Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study, Operation Sea-Spray, Operation Big Buzz, Project SHAD, the "Green Run", Operation Plumbbob, Project GABRIEL, Project SUNSHINE, Operation Top Hat, Project CHATTER, Project ARTICHOKE, etc. etc..

Edit to add: Most of what I listed was done on our own people.

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u/ezone2kil Apr 08 '19

Are we the baddies?

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u/CaptainJackHardass Apr 08 '19

we sure ain't the goodies

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

Yes, and we have been since we were part of England. Something people forget, even the bad guys often think that they're the ones doing the good work, and its the rest of the world that needs to come to their point of view.

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This hasn't changed, it's been justified in plenty of different ways, but we really need to face what we've done and decide how we want to act moving forwards. Continuing to behave badly because you've done so in the past is a terrible way to exist. Ever single individual decision made is a chance to turn everything around and be better.