Dear Editor,
I am convinced this paper will NOT print the reality, as controversy sells papers.
The simple reality is, it's not the schools' fault. Kids who have no hope see crime as a real alternative! The problem lies in the lack of hope the youth and young adults feel.
You can place a kid with hope in a barn with a teacher in the worst area and that kid will succeed at learning. You can take a kid from the same area,who has no hope, put him in the same barn and he will steal the cow and feed his family.
Jamaica is suffering from a "crisis of hope" and you can lock up or kill as many of these young criminals as possible, you can make as many studies as you want to about schools, but until there is a real (not empty unfulfilled slogans) plan to create HOPE, Jamaica will continue to lose generations.
No further studies are needed. These "criminals" are the Sons of Jamaica; they should not be exterminated, but rejuvenated, because little eyes are watching them and how they are treated. The little eyes will be the next generation.
Will they have hope or will they continue the cycle of the hopeless?
Kevan Browning
I am convinced this paper will NOT print the reality, as controversy sells papers.
The simple reality is, it's not the schools' fault. Kids who have no hope see crime as a real alternative! The problem lies in the lack of hope the youth and young adults feel.
You can place a kid with hope in a barn with a teacher in the worst area and that kid will succeed at learning. You can take a kid from the same area,who has no hope, put him in the same barn and he will steal the cow and feed his family.
Jamaica is suffering from a "crisis of hope" and you can lock up or kill as many of these young criminals as possible, you can make as many studies as you want to about schools, but until there is a real (not empty unfulfilled slogans) plan to create HOPE, Jamaica will continue to lose generations.
No further studies are needed. These "criminals" are the Sons of Jamaica; they should not be exterminated, but rejuvenated, because little eyes are watching them and how they are treated. The little eyes will be the next generation.
Will they have hope or will they continue the cycle of the hopeless?
Kevan Browning