Letter: Re-education of youth needed to save nation

Sun, Sep 12th 2010, 11:00 PM

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Little Johnny has a mind of his own, at age 15, he was arrested and placed in The Boy's Industrial Home for numerous criminal offences i.e. drugs and housebreaking. The system says incarcerate this young man for three years until he learns to behave.

Johnny dropped out of school at age 12, his mother works shifts at the hotel and his father has been gone from the time he was born. He has the responsibility of helping his mother with the rest of his siblings because he is the oldest child. How do we save Johnny from going down this road of death and destruction?

Susan has a 15-year-old daughter named Shamika, at age 12 Shamika sees her mother every other month with a ...

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