Worcester Schools Are Now Offering Free Laundry For All Kids Because It’s Our Job To Be Parent For Shitty Parents Who Don’t Know How To Parent

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Turtlegram: A clean change of clothes may be refreshing. But can it stop a student from missing school? The Worcester school administration is betting it can, with plans underway to begin installing washers and dryers at four schools next school year and possibly more after that. The effort is buoyed in part by Sullivan Middle School’s experiment with a washer and dryer this year, which principal Josephine Robertson credits with helping students become more comfortable going to school.

“Sometimes kids come into school wearing clothes that are not very fresh,” she said, explaining Sullivan has a high concentration of students from low-income families – specifically, 57 percent of the school’s population qualifies as “economically disadvantaged,” according to the state’s records. “That makes them feel isolated in the classroom, which then leads to other issues.”

One of those issues is chronic absenteeism, which the state defines as missing 18 days or more during a single school year. Last school year, slightly more than 16 percent of Sullivan’s student population was chronically absent, nearly two percentage points higher than the district average and four points higher than the state average. Using some of the school’s fundraising money, Ms. Robertson said she bought a new washer and dryer before the start of the school year, and tasked the school’s wrap-around coordinator with assisting children who wanted to use them during the school day.

“It’s a practical solution to a practical problem,” she said, adding so far the new service seems to be keeping at-risk students from missing too many school days. “We talk about school as having two prongs – there’s the academic side, and the social side. And one cannot be more important than the other.

“Our plan is really to make kids feel like school is home,” said Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, “so they can just focus on learning.”

When Ms. Binienda mentioned at a recent meeting with potential public school benefactors her wish to install washers and dryers at other schools, UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael Collins volunteered his institution to help finance the initiative. This week, representatives from the university confirmed UMass is on board to pay for the appliances, although they had not yet worked out the details, including the funding mechanism it will use.

I posted the above clip to The Wire because it’s obviously the motivation for this. Some SJWs with grant money to spend and an insatiable desire to feel good about themselves, who have never interacted with an inner city kid their entire lives, got together and said, “Ya know, I saw on The Wire that the reason kids aren’t coming to school is they smell like shit and their clothes haven’t been washed.” Then another SJW said, “Oh I know, let’s buy them all washing machines. That will make them wanna learn!!”

Seriously, just find a 10th grader at Burncoat or South. Any kid will do. Ask them if the reasons some of their classmates aren’t coming to school is because they don’t have clean clothes. They’ll laugh at you. Because they know more about the reality of public schools than 99% of the people making decisions for the public schools. Kids aren’t missing school because they don’t have clean clothes. They’re missing school because no one is making them go to school. They’re being raised by animals who don’t value education and think school is something you should probably go to once in a while if you can fit it into your schedule.

Normally I like Maureen Binienda, but this quote was dumb:

“Our plan is really to make kids feel like school is home,” said Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, “so they can just focus on learning.”

Newsflash – School is not your home. Home is your home. We already give them free breakfast and free lunch, to go along with the free food stamps their parents receive from the taxpayers. All we are doing is enabling lazyness. How freaking hard is it to make your stupid kid a bologna sandwich in the morning? But that’s too much to ask so we accomodate them. Now we’re doing their laundry too. So what’s next? Mom and Dad are working late nights so Johnny is gonna sleep at school too? Where does it end. School is NOT YOUR HOME!! Go home.

And let’s talk about the logistics of this. So….kids are just gonna walk to school a mile in the freezing cold while holding a hamper full of dirty drawers? Because if you can’t get them to come to school in the first place, I’m sure they’re gonna be more inclined by the prospect of lugging soiled loins through Webster Square.

Here’s some more questions none of these feel good hippies have thought about:

• What happens when Uncle Tommy realizes he can have his clothes cleaned for free at school instead of wasting his quarters at the Jim Dandy?
• Who’s paying for maintenance of the machines?
• Who’s paying for the dyer sheets and detergent?
• What happens if 50 kids wanna do laundry on the same day?
• Won’t the kids lugging loads of laundry to school be stigmatized for being…..poor? Isn’t that something SJWs like to avoid?

Then again they obviously didn’t think that far ahead. They just watched an episode of The Wire and now they’re all experts on growing up urban.

The bottom line is that this becomes generational. Free lunch and free breakfast have become a way of life for too many people. Now free laundry won’t just be a thing that some random school has. It will become the norm. Kids will come to school expecting them to do their laundry for them. Next will be sleepovers and cable TV. Because as Maureen Binienda said, Our plan is really to make kids feel like school is home.” The goals of big government isn’t to save poor people. It’s to replace your parents with the government. And when you do that no one learns how to be self sufficient, and people remain trapped in cycles of poverty. Then again, without poverty people like Jim McGovern would have a hard time getting elected. They need people to stay poor so the government can fix all their problems. Frauds.

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