Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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Blake25p said:
Not gonna like kinda forgot about this kid. Be interesting to see how he develops.
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Hell, yeah. I'm getting my wish, Beasley will start out at Safety. My dream of a headhunting Strong Safety in the mode of a Steve Atwater/Eric Berry is going to come true. Very soon, every RB that makes it to the 2nd level of the defense and WR and/or TE that comes across the middle, better have their head on a swivel or my boy, Aaron "The Beast" Beasley will be knocking their d!cks in the dirt
 
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Rishvol said:
It doesn't help learning disabilities are being handed out like candy now
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Maybe, I don’t know, but you have to know the person and situation. I’m not saying I agree just giving out money for any and all diagnosis that our government deems handicap. Some situations are just sad because the handicap is also that they are chained to the system for life.
 
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chargervol said:
I don't know much about the welfare system, what check do they get?
Knew 2 guys in KY that everybody said received a "crazy check" assumed that was disability. And of course physical disability or food stamps.
Is "the welfare check" referring to one of those?
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SS disability are the most common, though some are also SS survivor benefits. Used to work at a bank and more than a few "drew" SS disability checks in their early 20s. Couldn't/wouldn't judge, but most looked very capable of working.

Of course, no one knows what another person goes through, but I was skeptical of those that turned around and also said they worked and made money under the table...those people I sort of wanted to scream at and kick out of my office.
 
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volfanngatorland said:
It’s amazing what kids DON’T learn in school these days. I’m not too far removed from the HS/College years and I didn’t learn crap about things that help make you successful on a day to day basis.

Working on cars, fixing things around the house, personal finance/budgeting, home ec, etc

Had to learn them all on my own time and was lucky enough to have people in my life who knew and were willing to teach me. Some don’t have that luxury.
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My son got to take the Dave Ramsey class on personal finance. He said it was more helpful than anything he had in high school.
 
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Devo182 said:
Jmo, but so much of our education woes seem to stem from society, not a lack of good, passionate teachers. My mom taught all of her life and won awards. She thought very highly of her other teachers around her. She never thought a lack of good teachers were pulling her district down. The one thing she did worry about was how many children in Knoxville came in unable to focus because they had so many issues at home, parents that didn't care, some even came in hungry and starving.

I don't think kids in the ghettos suffer because those teachers are lazy or stupid, quite the opposite, they have to care about as much as any teacher. I think they suffer because of societal issues and priorities.

I severely question how much value American society places on education, versus those nations we judge ourselves against - Norway, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Finland, etc, and that starts with parents and society first. How many parents push their kids in sports, but not school? How many put athletes and millionaires on a pedestal, but not a good engineer or accountant? It seems our thinking of success is far too extreme and stratified.
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I couldn't agree more. With all of this.

I think it's easier for parents to push their kids into sports because of one of two reasons:

1) It's in the family. Whether it's only to get to the threshold of earning a free college education, or if it's the McCaffery's, Watt's, Griffeys, whatever

2) Some neighborhoods haven't seen someone succeed via academics and enterprise (or if they did, they couldn't recognize it), but HAVE seen a kid or two from the area win the sports lottery and go pro.

And as a society we've become content with that. how many stories in college football alone have there been about a kid making it to college via athletics while being homeless? It's a touching story and we all say "Good for them, beat the odds", but we should all be asking ourselves why those are the odds.
 
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chargervol said:
I don't know much about the welfare system, what check do they get?
Knew 2 guys in KY that everybody said received a "crazy check" assumed that was disability. And of course physical disability or food stamps.
Is "the welfare check" referring to one of those?
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I don't know a lot about it, but I did have one parent insist that I get their kid in special ed because they were not going to get the "crazy check" for them without it, and they really needed it because the other checks they were drawing were not enough. The parent was already 3rd generation wefare dependent. The child didn't need to be in special ed and didn't want to be. I didn't cooperate so they changed schools.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
I don't know a lot about it, but I did have one parent insist that I get their kid in special ed because they were not not to get the "crazy check" for them, and they really needed it because the other checks they were drawing were not enough. The parent was already 3rd generation wefare dependent. The child didn't need to be in special ed and didn't want to be. I didn't cooperate so they changed schools.
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Mercy
 
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The culture of poverty is very difficult to break. It's very hard to get someone to think something else is better when the people they care about have been indoctrinating them with it their whole lives. It's literally all they know.
 
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