Online Comment:
Taking a Chance on Youth
ali Flowers, High School teacher
wrote on May 7, 2007 10:57 AM:
"Today's society has many unfortunate
suffering and challenged teenagers,
due to increasingly poor parenting,
and greater peer pressure demands
often dictated more by television
and marketing, than the demands of
parents. Instead of ridiculing our
young people today, the community
needs to notice the injustice that
many of these teenagers face today;
not only in society, but more importantly
in the dysfunctional family relationships,
and help them view life with more
optimism. That is exactly why the "If
Given A Chance" scholarship
created by the Juvenile Justice Prevention
Mission is exactly the type of work
that prevents juvenile deliquency
and provides some of the misled youth
with hope for a better future. If
we all took a more active role in
these type of organizations, and
set examples with our own behaviors,
we might see more mutual respect
among adults and teenagers."
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