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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The "crush or be crushed" dynamic mentioned by a PP is what needs to be harnessed and changed. It needs to turn from frustration and aggression toward the school, toward the teachers, and other students into an understanding that survival and success in the bigger picture isn't just me versus you fighting day by day one on one in the schoolyard, the real fight is me versus my own future, and that the best weapon isn't a fist, the best weapon is knowledge. That takes serious intervention, mentoring and engagement from people who have been there and done that. Kids see the stark reality of a future where they end up a pregnant teen, or end up behind bars, or dead before their time and they have to know that that's the real fight of their lives - [b]whether to just give in and accept that shitty future, or to know that there are options,[/b] and that they can fight it with the weapons that schools, libraries and others are trying to put out there for them.[/quote]

Yes!  Exactly.[/quote]

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