FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Fw: Homeless children

[Bill Karns (snrakb]

I also saw that very interesting, and disturbing, report.

One thought occurred to me:  it is social workers in the Green Bay school 
system that help to serve the needs of those homeless children.  And, when 
economic push comes to budgetary shove, those social workers are often among 
those whose positions are eliminated, leaving the teachers to fill the gap..

I may be wrong about this, but I'm guessing that those social workers are also 
classified in that much-vilified group of "non-classroom employees" who are a 
favorite target of those who like to attach the public schools.

Bill

--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Carol Koepp <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Carol Koepp <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: [sa-talk] Fw: Homeless children
> To: "Bill Karns" <snrakb [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "FUS Social Action talk" <fussa-talk [at] muusja.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:09 AM
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jerry Edwards 
> To: Heidi Johnson 
> Cc: Carol Koepp 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:33 PM
> Subject: Homeless children
> 
> 
>       Heidi,
>       Tonight's (Tuesday 31 March) News Hour
> with Jim Lehrer had a very interesting, but distressing
> article on homeless children, and how schools end up having
> to serve as social workers with their students.  Focus
> was on one school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
>       Here is the link http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
>       However, according to the site,
> tonight's video is not yet available.
>       Incidentally, Carol and I attended a
> meeting of the PEACE Foundation in North Minneapolis, and
> learned a shocking statistic--that 1 in 6 school students
> are homeless!  So we have the problem in a big way
> here.
>       Regards,
>       Jerry Edwards 
> 
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