A woman in North Carolina is suing a school district, alleging officials forced her children to switch schools while they experienced homelessness.
The suit from the mother, identified as K.L., claims Gaston County Schools; Lisa Phillips, state coordinator for Education of Homeless Children; and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction failed her children when the district forced the children to leave their original schools while already facing the trauma of homelessness.
The 17-page lawsuit filed on Jan. 26 states K.L. was evicted from her residence in September 2023 while her children were students at New Hope Elementary and Cramerton Middle School.
With two children and nowhere to go, the suit states the disabled veteran mother switched both children to car riders while searching for steady housing. While the family remained in the same city, they were not located in the same school zone following the eviction.
No, I don’t. Lots of other countries have a decent military AND good social supports. You guys can walk and chew gum at the same time.
For the life of me I will never understand why we would want to gut our military. Talk softly and carry a big stick. You don’t have to agree with the engagements that we have been in to understand why we need a strong military for defense and to make sure the world knows it. This can be squared WITH veteran and other social safety net programs. No reason not to have both.
Exactly! Look at Ukraine, for example. I bet they wish they had a stronger military in 2013, or 2021. I can only assume the rabidly anti-military folks are incredibly naive, or bad actors.
In all fairness, I do think there is something to be said for rampant military spending. Big defense contractors could be doing what they do for a fraction of the cost. The doesn’t mean eliminating the military. I’m not even sure who’s down voting me either. I’m like, “We should have both a military and a safety net” and everyone gets mad for different reasons I guess. One because I want a military and the other because I think homelessness shouldn’t exist. We have the resources. For example, in my downtown area there are a slew of "abandoned’ buildings still in good repair. Why aren’t we using those buildings for housing?
TBH I’d like to see the defense “industry” be nationalized. I consider it to be akin to healthcare — something that should not have a profit motive. The armed forces themselves are not profit-driven, so their equipment shouldn’t be either.
We wouldn’t even have need of soldiers if there weren’t any soldiers to begin with.
They are a solution to a problem they caused themselves.