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.
The mother is a disabled veteran.
I’m not super pro-military or anything, but a veteran, especially a disabled veteran, deserves to be taken care of by the country they sacrificed for.
Obviously, the school deserves to be sued for what they did, but those kids should never have been homeless in the first place. They should have been housed by the U.S. military on the military’s dime.
The military certainly has the money. Build a single less B-1 (or whatever the new hotness stealth airplane or destroyer is) and you could probably house every single homeless vet. Maybe every homeless person. Idk but those things are insanely expensive.
The F-35 program cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion.
But hey, at least they fly well enough for us to give them to Israel I guess…
Don’t be so naive, we need to spend all that money to protect Americans from global threats such as lack of affordable healthcare and affordable housing.
Wait
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Sorry we need to spend all that money to protect Americans from looks closer… there is something scribbled here does it say “axis of evil”? Next to it someone wrote “Iran” then scribbled it out and wrote “Iraq” and then it looks like it was scribbled out a second time to write “Iran” again?…
…Oh ok there we go it also says “Islamic Extremists”, well that is a good reason! Jeez after Bin Laden it has just been one ground invasion after another of jihadi ground troops on American shores. Thank goodness we didn’t spend that money on stupid government handouts. Remember when San Francisco didn’t build enough shore cannons to blow up ISIS landing boats and now that whole part of the country is gone? sigh and the liberals were SURE painting the cannons with LGTBQ colors was going to save them…
You know what really pisses me off as a conservative though? No one in this country respects veterans. Every time I go to get on a plane and the airline invites veterans to come on first, I clap beaming like the proud patriotic American that I am. When I look around though people around me are sometimes just on their phones and ignoring this opportunity to honor our veterans. Kids these days don’t even care about veterans and if you start honoring the service of our veterans with empty platitudes around millennials they don’t even respond they just want to talk about dumb shit like how we should at least give veterans free healthcare or affordable housing or childcare support.
Why does that shit matter? What do you think veterans want the government to just give them healthcare for free after they have fought so hard for the privilege of having to buy healthcare from corporations hellbent on cutting every single cost they can, quality of health services be damned? I feel like millennials just want to live in a communist hellscape where even the hospitals and schools are government run.
Those veterans fought for our country, don’t spit in their face by offering a hand to them, this is the proud and free land of the bootstraps where anybody can make it so long as they can make it. If you see a homeless veteran on the street, share a smile with them knowing that they not only fought for the freedom of you to succeed but also for them to fail and thus balance is preserved in this wonderful land of god.
Wake up, babe, new copypasta just dropped
This is 100% false. Pure disinformation. The $1.5T figure is for all costs associated with the program through to the aircraft’s end of life in the year 2070.
I mean…Why the hell are we sparing 1.5 Trillion dollars of our future income on jet fighters when we won’t spare even 10% of that on our own fucking people at home without a god damned 3 ring circus about how much we’re already spending?
Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
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.
Or, hear me out here, we could spend $1.5T over 45 years to house the homeless. That’s $33.3 billion dollars each year, every year.
But how does that immediately make Boeing richer? Think of their poor earnings.
Well, if Boeing built housing under contract for the government, they could make money that way.
How about the 2.3 trillion dollars spent in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban?
How about how cereal boxes keep getting smaller but the price stays the same? That has about as much to do with military procurement as your comment.
True, people paid for it with inflation and stagnant wages
The military is too busy misplacing and spending all their dime on things to hurt the poors.
I’m being honest here, there’s actually a ton of housing support for homeless veterans. She’ll have to take action to access that help of course, and that doesn’t negate the trauma of getting evicted the entire family is experiencing, or the school district making it worse
I don’t know if this makes me a radical communist or something, but in my opinion, if you’ve served in the military, especially if you’ve become disabled during your time, you shouldn’t get assistance paying for a house.
Your house should be bought and paid for. 110% subsidy, to help pay for things that will inevitably be imperfect with the property; electrical issues, corroded pipes, outdated HVAC, security, CO detectors, etc.
And you shouldn’t have to jump through a thousand hoops design to prevent access at every step of the way.
No, that shit should have less friction than the physics lessons you took in high school
especially a disabled veteran
Why is a veteran more deserving of care than a teacher, a firefighter, a nurse, a construction worker, or literally any one else serving their community? Is it because they kill people and destabilize countries at the behest of corporations?
Can we at least agree that people should never be homeless? No?
Can we at least agree that disabled people should never be homeless? Still no?
How about veterans? Once again no.
Disabled veterans with children? Believe it or not, also no.
Can we agree that the wealthiest country on Earth shouldn’t have these problems?
Laughs in late-stage capitalism.
But think about those poor workers who won’t be able to supply billionaires with yachts? What about their kids huh!?!
No child should go hungry or miss out on an education. We have the resources to treat people better.
Would you think of the CEOs’ yachts?
Won’t someone please think of the CEOs’ yachts!?
This is heartbreaking. Alone the fact that there is such a thing as “homeless children” is heartbreaking. The US really needs some help.
Nah, we good, we have god, guns, and nukes. 🫡🇺🇲
I hope you’re sarcastic
Shitty thing is that we have to even guess.
Split representation in the House (72-48 in the state and 7-7 at the federal level, R favor), a 5-2 split in their supreme court (R favor) and 2 republican US senators (30-20 state level in the Republicans favor) is the reason why. Stop voting Red and your state won’t be so shitty towards people
The ones voting R are okay with this outcome as long as others get hurt. Even if innocents get hurt
Until it affects them personally, then they become very sad.
Then they become
very sadpissed at the Democrats for letting it happenFtfy
Depends on who shouts the loudest I guess.
And then when their shortsighted policies affect them they blame “the government” as if it wasn’t the very people they elected that caused it.
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.
What the fuck does “car riders” mean in this sentence?
Probably indicates that they won’t be riding a school bus to school and will be dropped off and picked up by car.
This sounds like a clear violation of the McKinney-Vento Act.
I believe the problems stem from public schools being funded indirectly by real estate values. That means you’re discriminated against if your parents are poor. That the school makes it so explicit by kicking the children out as soon as possible is not just cruel, it’s stupid too.
Laws in the US are so cruel to the poor. It is effectively apartheid.
