There's a lot going on behind the scenes, and I've only got a partial picture of it. Massive turnover at CPS means the bureaucracy is incredibly slow. The political instinct to avoid scandal rather than reduce human misery means it's better to leave kids in legal limbo than place them in a "bad" home that shows up on the evening news. And there's some good-ish news, at least in my home of Harris County. The new wave of Black Lady Democrat Judges who came up through the 2018 wave are far more reluctant to throw people in jail and, as a consequence, throw their kids into the foster system.
The CPS system is bad for a whole bunch of reasons. And pumping people through it faster won't necessarily make it better. But the things that would make it better cost money. Texas State Legislature has been trying not to spend a penny more on CPS than absolutely necessary for decades.
One reason I'm engaging in shitlib electoralism is in the vain hope that flipping the state legislature might change that.
There's a lot going on behind the scenes, and I've only got a partial picture of it. Massive turnover at CPS means the bureaucracy is incredibly slow. The political instinct to avoid scandal rather than reduce human misery means it's better to leave kids in legal limbo than place them in a "bad" home that shows up on the evening news. And there's some good-ish news, at least in my home of Harris County. The new wave of Black Lady Democrat Judges who came up through the 2018 wave are far more reluctant to throw people in jail and, as a consequence, throw their kids into the foster system.
The CPS system is bad for a whole bunch of reasons. And pumping people through it faster won't necessarily make it better. But the things that would make it better cost money. Texas State Legislature has been trying not to spend a penny more on CPS than absolutely necessary for decades.
One reason I'm engaging in shitlib electoralism is in the vain hope that flipping the state legislature might change that.