https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193351&type=printable

all schools should be merit based but low income people need help when they are 5 years old

Right, so we should create government programs to give extra resources to poorer groups.

extra resources?

no, it can derail into dependable community

or just resources

That way they can have advantages rich people don't have, to balance out the resources rich people have but they don't.

that which is given has no value, it must be earned

Resources available for those who need i think

a mentor will not create dependency

no, but a program will

i mean free cash that is

a program to provide father figures to single parent children?

Would a rich single parent household also have access to this mentorship programs?

Well that is the long term solution, that doesn't resolve present disparities between classes. I think applications should be based on the wealth of the students family along with their parent's backgrounds. The white person who grew up poor with uneducated parents had to overcome more obstacles than a rich black person with college educated parents.

yes

You mean, big brothers? Alright exists.

this program would be specific to parenthood

yup expand

we need more

Yeah, but it kind of sucks, taekahn.

kids need dads

that i can get behind

And there's the looming question of how we control for quality with these programs, but we'll *never* get out of that rabbit hole.

but i'd rather see people get married and have children then encourage more single mothers

Kids need dads,

Adults need Tim

its a dark world i say

a figure who knows how to get shit done, build some cool shit and show confidence

problem is that state workers can be subject to diferrent motivation and care for kid becomes a job instead, savvy?

and part knowledge too

and dads can be deadbeats

true

a bad dad is better than no dad

usually

disagree

like if the dads a rapist ya know, thats worse

bad in what sense

define bad

we have a dadless problem here

kek duuh

yeah but deadbeat does not equal rapist Tim 😄