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

[jojane (jojane]

The energy around this data is important - this is why we started UU
Affordable Housing Partnership, which doesn't exist anymore (after 6+
years of good work..) - but something else can rise up to address today's
housing/poverty/children's issues   -  the series on poverty that Kendyl
and Peter D'Ascoli organized is wrapping up, but the discussion about
what kind of UU actions and organizing should follow has just begun. 
Carol is doing a good job connecting FUS folks to PEACE Foundation, other
groups whose members live at ground zero on these issues.   FUS folks can
also connect with White Bear UU Church folks, they have made poverty
their top social justice issue - and they are just beginning to talk
about what that means, what it should look like, etc.  Maybe we should
have some joint discussion with them.....?   - Jo

 
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:56:00 +0000 (UTC) carolkoepp [at] comcast.net writes:
> You are right on about that, so when our governor says, like he did 
> last year. that 70% of a schools budget should be directed to the 
> classroom, he would be leaving these social workers out. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Karns" <snrakb [at] yahoo.com> 
> To: "Carol Koepp" <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> 
> Cc: "FUS Social Action talk" <fussa-talk [at] muusja.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:53:09 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada 
> Central 
> Subject: Re: [sa-talk] Fw: Homeless children 
> 
> 
> 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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