by Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW
SJS Staff Writer
The Congressional Social Work Caucus will be hosting a briefing, Children at Risk: Optimizing Health in an Era of Reform. The event will take place on October 19th in Washington D.C. Click the above link for more information.
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I would like to subscribe to your blog but your RSS feeder is not active… Could you please activate it?
OK. I’ll let admin know.
i will set us up on feedburner this weekend Dorlee, in the meantime, at the bottom left is a link to our feed. Also, signing up for an account will allow you to get our 2x daily email digest.
Thx! The RSS is critical for me so that I can see your posts along with the many others that I read. There are too many good ones for me to possibly follow in my regular email box 🙂
Thanks so much for your kind words. Please spread the word!
Hi, The RSS is still not working 🙁
Hi Doralee. The RSS feed is working for me. I have a yahoo tool bar. When I click on book marks it shows the RSS logo and ‘Subscribe to this page’ written next to it. I hovered over that and a drop down with SJS appeared. I clicked SJS and it installed the SJS RSS feed to my tool bar. If this doesn’t work let me know so I can alert Matt to the problem.
Appropriate tools– exactly! In order to achieve abstract goals, one must know what the solution looks like on the ground- something a government social worker like myself knows all too well. What are these tools- they are called good education and proper criminal justice sentencing. Why are certain inner city schools failing, and others do better? Ask the teachers and admins- what are they doing to provide tools, which is their job. And what do children learn if there is no discipline? That their behaviors do not matter- and that violence is rewarded. Keep in mind- if I assault you, you call police, I get arrested then released and simply admonished, so I assault you even harder for snitching, repeat cycle- what is the lesson learned? I don’t know if you work in the inner city like I do, but in case you don’t- the lesson is that violence pays, cooperating with police do not, take matters into your own hands if you want to survive. If we punished violent youth with incarceration on first offense, overall violent behavior would reduce sharply- the tools of society would work. Instead, misguided liberals increase violence- often because their middle class biases blind them to reality. Just like labeling folks marginal, and stating absolutely no one would choose that- that ‘s a bias. Crime absolutely pays, smoking pot, having sex, and drinking all day is lots of fun (I lived like that myself for some times as a youngster, it is really fun)- so people do choose “marginal” lives, because they meet needs (I have been close friends with many pot dealers, and they did quite well for themselves). Large scale social science research is not true science- it is simply postulating theory upon surveys. What this suit will do is prevent accountability- police and judges will be even more hesitant to punish offenders. Luckily, for middle class folk like us, ourselves and our children will not be affected- but those poor kids? Well, if ideology supported by non-scientific biased studies conflicts with reality, which one should we choose? Show me a study with a control group, and experimental group, and tight control of single variables, and I’ll buy into it!