Give the kids something to do
....although I'm sure a nice communal garden and decent lighting wouldn't necessarily have made them think twice about what they did... it would have contributed to their decisions.
I wrote this a couple of days ago, while making my point about improving the environment in which people, especially from deprived areas, live in. Then low and behold I read this in The Guardian this morning, regarding Hasib Hussain, who of the apparent Suicide Bombers....
'He had always found an escape in football. But, and two years ago, the Hornets' pitch was closed down. At about the same time, Hussain seemed to disappear into another world, according to associates.'
Children need things to do, to feel part of the community they live in, they need to feel their thoughts and ideas are listened too, because if they don't they're going to look elsewhere for someone who they feel does believe in them, and sadly for this boy, that someone it seems had an extreme ideology that would lead to mass murder.
But on a much lesser scale, and I hope not too sound too middle aged, children today do feel disinfranchised, and turn to violence and vandalism to fill in their joyless lives. My parents bowling club is regularly attacked by youths, a whole generation are being left behind because we only see the end result, and the administration only answer is ASBOS! For fucks sake, the only ASBOS needed are the few hundred to stop our so called political represenatives from getting anywhere near Parliament.
I wrote this a couple of days ago, while making my point about improving the environment in which people, especially from deprived areas, live in. Then low and behold I read this in The Guardian this morning, regarding Hasib Hussain, who of the apparent Suicide Bombers....
'He had always found an escape in football. But, and two years ago, the Hornets' pitch was closed down. At about the same time, Hussain seemed to disappear into another world, according to associates.'
Children need things to do, to feel part of the community they live in, they need to feel their thoughts and ideas are listened too, because if they don't they're going to look elsewhere for someone who they feel does believe in them, and sadly for this boy, that someone it seems had an extreme ideology that would lead to mass murder.
But on a much lesser scale, and I hope not too sound too middle aged, children today do feel disinfranchised, and turn to violence and vandalism to fill in their joyless lives. My parents bowling club is regularly attacked by youths, a whole generation are being left behind because we only see the end result, and the administration only answer is ASBOS! For fucks sake, the only ASBOS needed are the few hundred to stop our so called political represenatives from getting anywhere near Parliament.
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My brother experienced this when we moved to the country when he was 16. I was 18 and went to uni. He transferred high schools, from one that was vaguely urban to one out in the sticks. Sticks High School turned out to have a very good choir (country schools always do because the kids sing in church) and a very high level of experimental drug users. He said he had never noticed drug use among the city kids, except for maybe drinking and smoking, but at the country school, it was EVERYWHERE. Offered up at parties, hidden in lockers, and the parents and teachers had no idea ... because these were the same church-going kids who sang in the choir.
He also mentioned something about a party that degenerated (or perhaps culminated) with kids riding naked down hills in stolen shopping trolleys. Better than drug use, but I'm sure some form of mind-altering substance was involved.
Like Keven has always said, it's better to raise kids in the city - more to do. Parents get scared off, trying to protect the children, but their kids get bored shiteless.
i grew up in the suburbs
i now live in the city and have for 7 years
way more crime, juvenille deliquency, drugs, etc in the burbs for sure
burbs are designed to screw with peoples ability to socialize
people go from the burbs to work and home without encountering a single person
they suffer socially, become awkward, maladapted and bored
in the city you have so many things to do or not to do, at least there are options
i would rather raise my kid in a slaughterhouse than the suburbs
i have spoken
this becomes law, then gospel
this is how gospel is written
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