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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's obvious that parents need help with their parenting. We can't rely on schools to fill in the gap, especially during the pandemic. Neighbors and elders and extended family need to step up. Unfortunately, there is a pervasive attitude not to get involved, which only leaves the problem of juvenile criminality to fester. I'm not sure that having well-intentioned white people here is going to help. This really has to be done neighborhood by neighborhood, and the city needs to step up and help citizens who want to help.[/quote] You assume they have (two) parents that are alive and functioning. And “elders”? Is this some sort of ancient church-based society? Or, if you meant grandparents, they’re likely dead or laying in an alley hoped up on opium. The city will not step up. The city can’t even administer itself much less solve this complex issue. Criminals have been emboldened and until an opposing force scares them into thinking twice, these incidents will escalate. [/quote] Why are you assuming that their grandparents are dead. When I grew up in Anacostia it was the Grandmas that rules the neighborhood. The biggest threat you could be told by anyone, including a police officer, was that you would be taken your grandma. I think that the PP is making lots of woke assumptions about raising kids in black neighborhoods. But I am not sure why they think that all of the grandparents are dead.[/quote]
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