Ostracizing single women? Inside Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' plan to strip women's rights - The ReidOut - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Alabama Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election, after campaigning on abortion rights and IVF, for a state House seat. Meanwhile, the men over at the Heritage Foundation, a wealthy, right-wing think tank swarming with former Trump administration officials, have published a very detailed plan—”Project 2025” for the next Republican president, with a section on abortion detailing the stripping of women's rights. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. - Aired on 03/27/2024.

[bamagal62]

1. The getting rid of

Head Start really shows their plan. No abortion or contraception access. But, also, they don’t care about the babies. I went into head start classrooms in college to teach. I loved the head start program. This is a very important program. Unfortunately, it always loses funding. Reagan tried to get rid of it. Pisses me off!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Damn! I also spent time at Head Start when I was in college, I loved those kids

I remember taking the children to a supermarket and getting the ingredients for "Stone Soup."

I also spent time at a school for disabled kids and I went back and volunteered there for the year after I got out of college.

I was a psych major and we also spent time working with patients at a state hospital - this was before Reagan emptied those out.

Aren't the "leaders" of any country charged with helping the people?? This sounds like punishment to me...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I taught in a Head Start in Harlem in 1984.

Made my program very progressive, very academic, and very multi-cultural.

The kids were learning rudimentary math using coin. Five different languages (English, Patwa, Mandarin Chinese, International Sign Language, and Spanish). African history, African art, African dance. Introduction to computers. We were ahead of public school kindergartens. Five of my 20 kids got into private, Catholic elementary schools.

Never prouder of my service as a teacher.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Wow! Kudos to your wonderful efforts! Those kids got a wonderful start in life that they wouldn't have had otherwise.

For my "winter study" in college (month of January) I spent time at home with the local Voluntary Action Center, we experienced all the organizations operating locally which needed volunteers. Among many, I spent time at Head Start and at a school for disabled kids, those stick in my mind since I liked those the best. And the year after I graduated I spent with one of the classes of disabled kids. That class was ages 2-6, most of them were 4. And I still remember all of them, spent the most time with a four-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy who liked my attention so her physical therapist taught me to help her with her exercises. And I also spent time with a five-year-old girl who was deaf and couldn't participate in all the class activities, like music, so we learned ASL together and I ended up taking a course. I loved those kids.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Kudos to YOU!

What made our program unusually progressive is our class was very very diverse ethnically. Most of the kids were African-American, Hispanic, and Chinese. And I was the only white person in the building. I was the "minority".

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I grew up in a fairly diverse community, it's not so diverse in the North Country where we moved when I was in high school

But the kids in that class were diverse in another way, Downs Syndrome, cerebral palsy, deaf, elective mutism. I thought of going back to school for Special Ed, but I got a job writing the TV descriptions that were in the newspapers instead.