It seems
impossible and it feels overwhelming.
The crime, the hopelessness, the lack of belief. The sense that I can't as an individual, and
we can't as a people. Maybe we should
call the police and have them lock up our sons, grandsons, and nephews. Or maybe the Chicago Public Schools should
teach lower income African Americans how to raise their children. Ending the crime in Chicago is about rising
children properly. It is about using wholesome
values to overcome the effects of American poverty.
Who will
teach the children of the African American working class and under class wholesome
values? This responsibility
falls on the public schools. It will not
start in the home for the home, meaning the parents, cannot teach what they do
not know. The public schools will have to
teach parents and current students, the future parents, how to raise mannerable
children who read at grade level.
African
American politicians and preachers have failed, and they should support the
Chicago Public Schools teaching parents how
to parent, and helping parents ensure that every grammar school student reads
at grade level.
Marc Sims
marcsimschicago@gmail.com
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