Just bumped into one of my students from when i was a teacher of naughty bastards (I managed to squeeze a B+ out of her for ICT🚀). It was an expensive 1-1 service, but they were a broken lot, mostly youth offending.
Now shes a human rights lawyer. This is EXACTLY why its okay for society to spend a little more on fixing broken young people. No one could possibly know the havoc she used to cause 😂, now shes a well-rounded successful adult👌
Made my year.
I of course take full credit.
That service getting the squeeze and heartache of knowing young people couldn't access the service anymore is why I switched to doing the computer bollocks.
Props mate 👍
She is now helping people and so the ripples keep flowing.
Question - I agree we should spend, but I think one of the bigger questions is success rates and efficiency of the system. How much should the system spend to get one of her?
Congrats. Must have been a proud moment. 💪💪
I'm pretty confident without our service she would currently be in/out of prison, prob costing millions.
It's very hard to quantify outcomes in those sorts of services I worked in, which is why they are often in the crosshairs when cuts are made. I imagine with all the support she had, it prob cost close to 100k to fix her.
For sure man. And its certainly more worthwhile throwing the money at a service like that than a war. I think one the the biggest issues is scalability. So people like you who have a talent at bringing out the best often can't scale cos its a human issue. Trust takes time and gestures that give confidence.
Interestingly with AI there may be a chance that some good social workers/educators mentality could be bottled and distributed. Wouldn't likely work as well but it would get the stats. Interested in your thoughts
My sorta narrative Arc.
