I suppose in some respects, but not the ones I want them to be lol. Still no closer to improving minimum living wage, improving healthcare costs, public schools, affordable childcare, affordable higher ed etc. Just the things I donтАЩt necessarily agree with like not telling parents if their child switches genders or giving repeat violent criminals bail. SMHтАж
Gotcha, that's very fair and I agree. I really dislike the direction that many Democrats have been heading on issues like crime and education. This is partly why I am encouraged by what Vance has shared about promoting pro-family policies.
Well, I can at the very least appreciate his sentiment, but I didn't find evidence that he practiced what he preached while in senate. On BillTrack50 not one bill Vance had involvement in was related to childcare. I know Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Katie Britt (R-AL) just put forth a new proposed package that will enhance tax credits for families with children to assist with childcare costs. Also, the Child Care for Every Community Act put forth by Warren (D-MA) last winter would be very beneficial. If he has a differing philosophy for how to achieve improving childcare costs than these that is fine, but if so, he needs to put that philosophy into action.
For me, the most obvious ways to be 'pro-family' is lowering childcare costs, healthcare costs, improving public schools (where applicable like most inner cities), & lowering housing costs. Those are the 4 hurdles that prohibit most young people from wanting to have children. There are avenues to each of those out there.
Public schools are only going to improve when we can hold teachers, students and parents all accountable for the results. Sadly, the victimhood mentality the Democrats preach - it's always someone else's fault with them, isn't it? - allows each of those three parties to point fingers at the others while pursuing their own interests - higher paychecks, less responsibility, more time on the Playstation. If you want to improve public schools, preach conservative values, not liberal ones.
I agree in that all of those entities, including administration need to improve and be held accountable for public schools to be effective. I live in Philadelphia, and we have one of the worst public-school systems in the entire country. In our most recent mayoral election, I supported a candidate who was our former city controller and did audits into governmental departments spending. She found some unbelievable problems and I wanted so bad for her to become mayor to expand upon those audits & find real solutions. Too often the idea to 'help' is more funding more funding more funding, but in Philly we don't even know how the money is currently being spent. Unfortunately for us, she did not win in a crowded field. My point is though that to fix a public school system we first need to TRULY wrap our heads around its problems, usually financial based. Until that happens there is literally no possible way to improve a public school system. Even pumping in $5 billion doesn't guarantee anything because for all we know that money would syphon into some corrupt administrator's bank account as it currently does.
I also agree that the Democratcs have absolutely allowed for victimhood mentality & learned helplessness specifically with Black communities. I won't even call it 'minorities' in general because that is just not accurate. It is a specific problem for the Black community more than any other. But anyway, like I said there IS an avenue to improve those institutions. It isn't gonna be easy of course and for the public school issue it would entail each of those groups to play a part, but it is possible if someone could actually make an earnest attempt.
I agree - so much money spent, so few results. Where is it going, and how do we staunch the flow? Charter schools and Catholic schools spend far less than the public school counterparts in their area, but their students achieve far better results than those in the public school, on average. What is different? Easy enough to see, many books written on the topics...but those to whom the public school dollars flow, and those who find it much easier not to do the work - neither the school work nor the parenting work - those books are practically offensive and are not to be discussed.
The Democrat party (as a whole and in its trajectory) is quite progressive now. Just curious, you disagree?
I suppose in some respects, but not the ones I want them to be lol. Still no closer to improving minimum living wage, improving healthcare costs, public schools, affordable childcare, affordable higher ed etc. Just the things I donтАЩt necessarily agree with like not telling parents if their child switches genders or giving repeat violent criminals bail. SMHтАж
Gotcha, that's very fair and I agree. I really dislike the direction that many Democrats have been heading on issues like crime and education. This is partly why I am encouraged by what Vance has shared about promoting pro-family policies.
Well, I can at the very least appreciate his sentiment, but I didn't find evidence that he practiced what he preached while in senate. On BillTrack50 not one bill Vance had involvement in was related to childcare. I know Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Katie Britt (R-AL) just put forth a new proposed package that will enhance tax credits for families with children to assist with childcare costs. Also, the Child Care for Every Community Act put forth by Warren (D-MA) last winter would be very beneficial. If he has a differing philosophy for how to achieve improving childcare costs than these that is fine, but if so, he needs to put that philosophy into action.
For me, the most obvious ways to be 'pro-family' is lowering childcare costs, healthcare costs, improving public schools (where applicable like most inner cities), & lowering housing costs. Those are the 4 hurdles that prohibit most young people from wanting to have children. There are avenues to each of those out there.
Public schools are only going to improve when we can hold teachers, students and parents all accountable for the results. Sadly, the victimhood mentality the Democrats preach - it's always someone else's fault with them, isn't it? - allows each of those three parties to point fingers at the others while pursuing their own interests - higher paychecks, less responsibility, more time on the Playstation. If you want to improve public schools, preach conservative values, not liberal ones.
I agree in that all of those entities, including administration need to improve and be held accountable for public schools to be effective. I live in Philadelphia, and we have one of the worst public-school systems in the entire country. In our most recent mayoral election, I supported a candidate who was our former city controller and did audits into governmental departments spending. She found some unbelievable problems and I wanted so bad for her to become mayor to expand upon those audits & find real solutions. Too often the idea to 'help' is more funding more funding more funding, but in Philly we don't even know how the money is currently being spent. Unfortunately for us, she did not win in a crowded field. My point is though that to fix a public school system we first need to TRULY wrap our heads around its problems, usually financial based. Until that happens there is literally no possible way to improve a public school system. Even pumping in $5 billion doesn't guarantee anything because for all we know that money would syphon into some corrupt administrator's bank account as it currently does.
I also agree that the Democratcs have absolutely allowed for victimhood mentality & learned helplessness specifically with Black communities. I won't even call it 'minorities' in general because that is just not accurate. It is a specific problem for the Black community more than any other. But anyway, like I said there IS an avenue to improve those institutions. It isn't gonna be easy of course and for the public school issue it would entail each of those groups to play a part, but it is possible if someone could actually make an earnest attempt.
I agree - so much money spent, so few results. Where is it going, and how do we staunch the flow? Charter schools and Catholic schools spend far less than the public school counterparts in their area, but their students achieve far better results than those in the public school, on average. What is different? Easy enough to see, many books written on the topics...but those to whom the public school dollars flow, and those who find it much easier not to do the work - neither the school work nor the parenting work - those books are practically offensive and are not to be discussed.