CHILDREN RAISED IN A CRIMINAL MINDED CULTURE

A recent study shows that 98.42 percent of the U.S. born prison population attended public schools. In the fight over the allocation of funds between schools and prisons, there are those who say that if we allocate a greater amount of funding to education than to corrections, fewer young people will be prison bound.

Bob Walsh says: Schools take money. They want more money. They have been producing a more and more inferior product for years. Prisons take money too, in California almost as much as schools do. It’s a sad fact. Would a better education system give us honest citizens or just better educated criminals?

Je’an Lee Howe, a follower of PACOVILLA Corrections blog, made some very well put comments on this issue. Here is what Je’an had to say:

THERE IS A REAL CRIMINAL MIDED CULTURE IN OUR SOCIETY THAT IS RAISING YOUNG CHILDREN IN A CRIMINAL MENTALITY TYPE LIFESTYLE
By Je'an Lee Howe

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
March 16, 2011

In La La Land schools could save mankind through proper education.

Maybe if education was really the center of the process, and not the administration of education being at the center. Maybe if the education system was revamped in a way that really helped troubled students, and not just catered to the academically blessed students, then and only then could there be a possibility of keeping more students in the classroom.

But the gang problem, and drug problem is an “at home problem.”

There is a real criminal minded culture in our society that is raising young children in a criminal mentality type lifestyle. Schools cannot compete with that. As Bob Walsh said: We would probably just end up with better educated criminals!

One question to consider is how do you take troubled young people out of the criminal environment that they grow up in?

Yes; quite a few young people are mentally strong enough to escape that environment, but what about the ones that don’t? They succumb to their surroundings of drugs, gang, and criminal activity.

Then you have the young people that come from well-off families deciding that being gangsters and being involved with drugs is cool.

I don’t see today’s school bureaucracy being able to solve those problems. At the forefront though is the fact that taxpayer money does not go to the individual schools, teachers, or students. It goes to a large bureaucracy that takes in more than it gives.

As reactionary as the prison system is, at least prisons keep the bad guys away from the rest of society.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Je’an’s comments gave me a thought. Perhaps we should have a two-tier school system. One for the ‘academically blessed students’ who are college bound and one for students that are not academically inclined like those children that are being raised ‘in a criminal mentality type lifestyle’ and may be prison bound.

For Je’an’s benefit though, I want to mention that 80 percent of tax payer money for schools goes to pay teacher, counselor and school administrator salaries. The ‘large bureaucracy that takes in more than it gives’ includes teachers and counselors in addition to administrators.