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On 4 Nov 1994, Purity 1 wrote:

> In article <399j0h$p6q@maple.enet.net>, artbusby@enet.net (Arthur L. 
> Busby Jr.) writes:
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> > Perhaps if discipline were reintroduced into society
> >then we wouldnt have the gang problems we do today, and why ..... BECAUSE
> >SUDDENLY THEIR IS A CONSEQUENCE TO OUR ACTIONS >>>

If you are really serious about wanting to stop the gangs, advocate a 12 
month school year.  Advocate 8 hour school days.  Gangs are the direct 
result of unstructured time, unrealistic expectations, and minimal 
supervision, often by pedophiles and abusive personalities.

You might be the greatest parents in the world, but your child will 
ultimately have to interact with other children his own age who have 
grown up in less than ideal circumstances.  When those circumstances 
include incest, rape, physical abuse, and verbal humiliation, coupled 
with intimidating shame and guilt from the perpetrators, or from 
unwitting disciplinarians who punish the victim while protecting the 
perpetrators, the result is a general contempt for even the concept of 
fairness and justice.  This is a fertile field for the gangs.  Once these 
are enrolled, your child, driven by an deep desire to belong with a group 
which appears sensitive to his needs for acceptance, love, sex, and 
self-esteem (needs common to all human beings), will either join the 
fold, or become a persecuted target.

>    Discipline does not have to equal hitting. There ARE other ways of
> discipline. Gang problems don't derive from lack of discipline, they
> derive from lack of PARENTING and family values.

Gang problems derive from a lack of structure for fulfullment of worthy 
goals.  Each year as school lets out for the summer, children ranging in 
age from 6 to 18 make the transition from a highly structured and 
relatively stimulating scholastic environment to the undersupervised 
environment provided by working parents.  The lucky ones are turned over 
to "sitters", often unemployed and/or disabled men and women (perfect 
role models for kids!), often too willing to exploit them physically or 
sexually.  The rest are left to fend for themselves in streets populated 
by drug pushers as young as 8 years old, children who are bored and 
looking for free entertainment.  Within a matter of weeks, the younger 
ones are sniffing glue, gasoline, and other toxins, the older ones 
are addicted to expensive drugs.  To supply themselves, they must get 
money through whatever means.  In gangs, able bodied men yield their 
wallets to armed pre-teens.  Soon, victims become resistant and violence 
breaks out.  Gangs attack victims, merchants, and even other gangs.  
Soon, victims fight back and the killing starts.

The police forces must be staffed up to cover the increase in all forms 
of crime.  Insurance claims jump, jails fill rapidly, and the courts are 
logjammed for 8 months recovering from summer vacation because we 
couldn't afford to pay the teachers the extra 33% to teach school the 
rest of the summer.

When school finally starts, it will take at least six weeks to 
reestablish a structure based on the fulfillment of some type of worthy 
goals.  Each year, cynicism and resignation increase until by 11th grade, 
the prospect of becoming a professional is as likely as the prospect of 
becoming an astronaut.  To the kids of the inner city, the hero and top 
role model has become the pimp and the prostitute.  It isn't their first 
choice, but it's an achievable goal.  The gangs have taught them contempt 
for honest labor.  Working for minimum wage isn't respectible, it won't 
get you a date, even on a monday, and REAL money jobs (Lawyers, 
Engineers, Accounting,...) are viewed with as much disdain in the inner 
city as pimps, pushers, and whores are viewed in the suburbs.

> Purity

	Rexford
 

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