The good news is that controlled fires are very effective. Native plants are used to fires, fires are natural. Fire will burn away invasive plants.

Sadly it’s hard to do controlled fires when everything is so dry all the time.

Idk. Guess it depends on the parents.

The ones I worked with were shit. They adopted these kids, sometimes for money, sometimes to look good in their community. Then when the kid has trouble adjusting because, I don’t know they’ve been through some shit, they ship them off and make the problems soooo much worse.

Added on they’re shit parents themselves and don’t feel like dealing with it.

I worked with a student who was sent to Hephzibah House.

I worked at a residential treatment facility. Parents who ship off their kids because they don’t want to deal with them should be shot. I’m sure there are some cases where this is necessary, but for the most part, the kids there were fine if you knew how to work with them. But that took a lot of work.

It pisses me off just to think about it.