08-31-2011, 12:45 PM
08-31-2011, 12:59 PM
Why do these kids keep throwing their lives away?
08-31-2011, 06:14 PM
I don't know the kid, but I have taught many with the type of outlook he seems to typify. He may have come from a neighborhood culture that didn't value what most of us see as opportunity. When they get "the inch" that comes with a little glory, they think "a mile" will be allowed. At 21, he has not been in the program (probably a year now) and has not "bought into the opportunity of education culture" that many of us raised in middle class neighborhoods take for granted.
It is likely he only stayed in high school because of the positive reinforcement his athletic prowess brought him and may have become convinced that it was temporary at college because he doubted his ability to keep himself eligible. It might be an important fact to know what his grade situation and APR is now. Was he running with his "hommies" on his own time, or was he making new friends? He may of course, just be one who is looking for the easy money and his experience may be that robbery is that easy money. Unless he lucked into a pool of cash, he surely didn't get much for merchandise from a "fence".
It is likely he only stayed in high school because of the positive reinforcement his athletic prowess brought him and may have become convinced that it was temporary at college because he doubted his ability to keep himself eligible. It might be an important fact to know what his grade situation and APR is now. Was he running with his "hommies" on his own time, or was he making new friends? He may of course, just be one who is looking for the easy money and his experience may be that robbery is that easy money. Unless he lucked into a pool of cash, he surely didn't get much for merchandise from a "fence".
08-31-2011, 06:16 PM
One more robery and he will become an ace.