<p>The idea that people have children to get welfare is countered by the right-wing argument that poor women, particularly black women, get too many abortions. Note the Atlanta area billboards talking about a holocaust caused by aborting black babies. You can’t argue both sides.</p>
<p>As for Provincetown, a little more perspective. I hit on people in the Politics forum all the time for not taking 2 minutes to look things up, for posting untrue garbage that is easily debunked.* So take a look at the actual Provincetown schools. Take the 2 minutes. There have been 2, only 2, because Ptown is small. They’re actually planning to shut the high school and send the kinds to a regional school because enrollment has dropped as the blue collar year round population has shrunk. The other school is K-8, just like my “elementary school” in my MA town. In blunt terms, take a few minutes to look up something you find not only did the news story invent the 1st grader part - as I noted in an earlier post - but that the age limits apply to a K-8 school. Does anyone think that 7th and 8th graders aren’t sexually active? In Ptown, like my district, they subdivide their school into an elementary and middle school portion, sometimes with an assistant principal in charge of the latter, but it’s all one “elementary school” in one building. My kids went to Driscoll School, an elementary school, from K-8 and then to high school. </p>
<p>*An easy example is a FoxNews story about the closing of part of a wildlife preserve on the AZ border because of violence that took only looking up the wildlife preserve’s homepage to see this happened in 2006 and that they say violence has decreased since then.</p>