{"id":520,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/the-plight-of-the-high-school-homeless\/"},"modified":"2010-12-27T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T10:00:05","slug":"the-plight-of-the-high-school-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/the-plight-of-the-high-school-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"The plight of the high school homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/26\/AR2010122602334.html?sid=ST2010122602337\">The plight of the high school homeless<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article really ticks me off because this is NOT a new problem.&#160; It\u2019s been going on in my school\u2019s neighborhood for years.&#160; I think the first case I knew of, was about 15 years ago.&#160; Kiddio in my class was not doing well at all that year, and someone at school discovered that his mother had disappeared, father had been gone for at least a year, and he was living along in the apartment with no income.&#160; I think the neighbors came to school and let us know, but not really sure.&#160; It has been a long time.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re always coming up with the odd student who is homeless.&#160; Sometimes they choose to live home \u2013 usually due to family difficulties and sometimes the family leaves them.&#160; We\u2019ve all kinds of social services at our disposal to help \u2013 group homes, etc.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, partly we care, but Texas learned long ago, the longer you keep a kid in school, the more income they make in later life, and the less money we have to spend on social services.&#160;&#160; That\u2019s one reason we get paid for each student in school, each day they are in school.<\/p>\n<p>But keeping them in longer, and that goes for the homeless teen, the pregnant teen and the teen father is just going to benefit everyone in the long run.&#160; Better yet if we can get them through college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; The plight of the high school homeless This article really ticks me off because this is NOT a new problem.&#160; It\u2019s been going on in my school\u2019s neighborhood for years.&#160; I think the first case I knew of, was about 15 years ago.&#160; Kiddio in my class was not doing well at all that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}