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Homelessness has a lot of parallels to education and how we teach kids. In schools we need lessons that are individualized to a student. Not every student learn
by jtchang 9y ago
Homelessness has a lot of parallels to education and how we teach kids. In schools we need lessons that are individualized to a student. Not every student learns the same. The buzzword that goes around is individualized instruction.
The same can be said of how we fix homelessness. There is no one size fits all solution. You have to figure out for any given person what they need. This is what makes it so expensive to fix. As a society we love panaceas. The reality is that we need to figure out how to diagnose the root cause of a person's homelessness faster and cheaper before anything will get better. With respect to how we do that our technology is still stuck in the middle ages.
- derefr 9y agoTangent: I find the idea that we'll reach zero employment any time soon strange, because we have (and have always had) a desperate need for social workers. We could have 10x the number we have today, and still not be providing the level of individualized care that would meet most people's idea of an "ethical system" vs. being some sort of Kafka-esque farce. Maybe nobody will want to pay them (their salaries come out of taxes, after all), but the jobs will continue to exist, with whatever budget—they certainly can't be automated away. There is an intrinsically human element to figuring out just how to untangle a (seemingly-irreversibly) knotted-up human life.
- jack9 9y ago> Not every student learns the same In the 90s the Teacher's Union often discussed the fruit cart metaphor. Much of the fruit is at or above standard, but in any pile the growth the substandard (and rotten) always occurs. Education rarely benefits from improvements to production-line approaches, where deviation is discarded.