re: #289 Obdicut

Youth programs work. My first job out of college was teaching at risk youth and I ran a dial-up BBS called TOTT (turn on to teens) out of the county program I worked for that connected the at-risk kids studying in my class with incarcerated youth in the CYA (California Youth Authority, or Juvenile Hall). It wasn’t bragging and posturing…it was ‘GETMETHEHELLOUTOFHERE’ frankness from the inside kids and a better understanding of why they should get their shit together for the kids in my program. It wasn’t perfect, but it helped. I lost one kid to jail during that job.

This half-assed shit - don’t make our police do it but keep them apprised of the situation just in case they take an interest - is another way of saying, “don’t spend money on those kids…they don’t deserve it.”