You grow up in a middle class, blue collar neighborhood, perhaps even under middle class.
Your parents raise you correctly, teaching you about respecting teachers, cops, and elders. They teach you the value of hard work and sacrifice as well as the importance of education. Who have a job during high school and you graduate and either go to college or work. You meet a nice girl, get married and start a family. Times are tough in the beginning but you finally save enough for a down payment for a small house in a nice suburb that has a low crime rate and good school system unlike the less desirable town next door.
After a few years you find out the state is consolidating school systems so now your children will be going to school with those in the other town which has a high crime rate and high teen pregnancy rate.
You work hard every day and you work equally as hard trying to instill the value of hard work, family values, respect, and education in your children where the majority of your current neighbors are like minded.
Now your children are exposed to children that dont come from families with strong values, respect, and hard work. They come from families where the only adult in the home is a mother who is taking care of 3 or 5 children who may be from different men. They will also be exposed to gang activity and other criminal and immoral behavior ( having kids at 16 ).
Before i get labled a racist, which im not, ask yourself this: what would you do if a high crime school district was merging with yours? Didnt you work hard so you can afford to raise your children in a safe environment? I dont want my children exposed to the nonsense that many inner cities bring. If i did, i would choose to live in the inner city.
The main question is this ? Why should i pay for the sins of an irresponsible parent who makes irresponsible decisions?
I also dont want to penalize their children for the mistakes of their immature/ irresponsible parent. I donate money either through church or taxes those that are less fortunate.

when I was a kid I saw rebel without a cause. I thought why are they fighting they have it all. House, car kids went to a nice school. None of them had any idea what tenement life was about. I did because that is where I came from.

I will answere from my perspective. Teach your children to defend themselves as soon as possible.

Germany is ok. But since they have open borders the bad guys are moving their in droves. Their kids do a lot of crime and they don’t respect women and they hate cops. It like a sanctuary city but it’s a country.

You can not protect them so they have to be able to protect themselves.

Little Italy was like that

You grow up in a middle class, blue collar neighborhood, perhaps even under middle class.
Your parents raise you correctly, teaching you about respecting teachers, cops, and elders. They teach you the value of hard work and sacrifice as well as the importance of education. You have a job during high school and you graduate and either go to college or work. You meet a nice girl, get married and start a family. Times are tough in the beginning but you finally save enough for a down payment for a small house in a nice suburb that has a low crime rate and good school system unlike the less desirable town next door.
After a few years you find out the state is consolidating school systems so now your children will be going to school with those in the other town which has a high crime rate and high teen pregnancy rate.
You work hard every day and you work equally as hard trying to instill the value of hard work, family values, respect, and education in your children where the majority of your current neighbors are like minded.
Now your children are exposed to children that dont come from families with strong values, respect, and hard work. They come from families where the only adult in the home is a mother who is taking care of 3 or 5 children who may be from different men. They will also be exposed to gang activity and other criminal and immoral behavior ( having kids at 16 ).
Before i get labled a racist, which im not, ask yourself this: what would you do if a high crime school district was merging with yours? Didnt you work hard so you can afford to raise your children in a safe environment? Isnt this the reason we work hard and try to lift ourselves both socially and economically? Are we now being punished for all of our hard work? Is it fair that we do things the right way and be penalized for it?
I dont want my children exposed to the nonsense that many inner cities bring. If i did, i would choose to live in the inner city.
The main question is this ? Why should i pay for the sins of an irresponsible parent who makes irresponsible decisions?
I also dont want to penalize their children for the mistakes of their immature/ irresponsible parent. I donate money either through church or taxes those that are less fortunate.

I have a kid who has been in and out of jail for the last two years. He's almost 21 now. Until a few years ago he was a nice kid. He started hanging out with a few thugs and now he is a thug. He has been arrested for breaking into cars and recently breaking into a store.

A few weeks ago he disappeared with my wife's car. I called the police, and he was caught leaving a a drug house that they were watching already. I pressed charges and now he's in jail again. This will be his fourth felony. I try to be positive when I visit him, but I honestly don't know if he has any chance of a decent life. I'm considering dropping the charges, but I don't want him back in my house.

I would appreciate hearing any suggestions. My best idea now is to leave him in jail. That's the only place I've seen him improve.

If anybody here has a similar experience, I would appreciate hearing your thoughts.


Thanks.

Footreads, your post is the kind of post that keeps people interested. I would like to hear more.

How old are you? I'm 53. The prices I remember (25k for a house, about a quarter for a gallon of gas I think) are much higher than what you experienced. I'm guessing you're older than me.

I was schooled with knackers (Irish travellers) for the first 3 years of my education, big smelly pikies who used to fight everyday in the yard. War would break out between the knacks and the settled people.

My folks got me out of their when the realised what a hole the place was and I educated in decent schools from there on.

In Ireland private education can be quite expensive.