Where do you stand, On different social things Options

[Hartmann]

I am guessing that given the more left leaning of this board, the answers are fairly obvious but I was wondering where people stood on the ideas of self-reliance, government intervention, and work.

My firm belief is that people as a whole must be self-reliant, that government should stay out unless it is needed, and hard work is necessary to succeed.

Where do you stand?

I listen to my brothers talk about what they want to do and I'm amazed at their goals. Nothing to do with hard work or being self-reliant but more along the lines of American Idol and "famous". It is one thing to dream of being a baseball player when you're young but I get this impression that we are becoming more and more focused on the easy route rather than the tough but rewarding one.

[Mommy]

sucks that inner city kids don't get the same education

[Inferia]

sucks that inner city kids don't get the same education

Florida has a weird program where they "redistribute" smart kids. Essentially they put all the really really good education programs in really bad schools. It's kinda messed up there's some sort of segregation between the kids who enter the school by being accepted into this fancy program, where as the rest of the kids have to walk through metal detectors. They say it's the only way for them to get money into poor performing schools. I dont' knwo about that...

[Mommy]

Florida has a weird program where they "redistribute" smart kids. Essentially they put all the really really good education programs in really bad schools. It's kinda messed up there's some sort of segregation between the kids who enter the school by being accepted into this fancy program, where as the rest of the kids have to walk through metal detectors. They say it's the only way for them to get money into poor performing schools. I dont' knwo about that...

they redistribute kids in Texas too, but they do it to keep a more equal race count. I had a half black half korean friend that lived across the street. The high school she should have gone to was a 15 minute walk from our house. Instead, she was sent to a school on the complete other side of town, about a 45 minute drive away. Of course, they sent a school bus to pick her up. I think it's dumb to do that. She was one of only a few black people at the school. Sometimes I think schools should be slightly segregated. My brother-in-law who is 15 goes to a school that 95% black in Richmond. The kid is cool. He really is, but has no friends at the school. They either need to redistribute that school (nearly impossible in a city that is mostly black) or they should send him to a school where he can make some friends. Back in El Paso, he had a ton of friends, and now he doesn't have any.