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Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

DC needs to come to grips with the reality that there is no longer an educational path for thousands of teen AA kids. An already uphill battle was completely derailed during the ill advised school shutdowns. Truancy rates are through the roof. No amount of tutoring or enrichment will get these kids anywhere near earning a diploma worth the paper it is written on. These kids need to be immediately identified and put on a vocational track. Otherwise they will have [quote]no alternative to crime to provide for themselves.[/quote]

This.  Unfortunately, in addition to the points noted above, DCPS bought into the "Success=College" fallacy of the No-Child-Left-Behind Act.  DC has far, far less in the way of vocational training than it should, though that is starting to improve.  However, vocational training provides the "hard" skills---what is also missing is "soft" skills training for kids who have never (a) seen the adults around them regularly working successfully; (b) have never had the social training to understand how one needs to comport themselves in a work environment.  [/quote]

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