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Not All Teens Who Get Into Trouble Are Bad Kids
Topic Started: Oct 28 2013, 12:45 PM (180 Views)
MainerMikeBrown
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A library near where I live sometimes has teens who work for them because they are required to perform community service after breaking the law.

The librarian there says that some of these teens are just trouble.

However, she also says that a lot of these youths who do community service are basically nice kids. They just made a huge mistake and they never do it again.

I think she's probably right.

So if you know a teen who's gotten into trouble with the law, don't automatically assume he or she is a bad kid.
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jon-nyc
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I wasnt a good kid or a bad kid. I was a mixed up kid. Like Pickles the Firecat.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Jolly
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Rainman
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MainerMikeBrown:
A library near where I live sometimes has teens who work for them because they are required to perform community service after breaking the law.


I have always found this rather curious.

At our middle schools and high schools, students are pretty much required to prove some sort of community service. It is perhaps instilling in the individual child or young adult a sense of "social justice" or perhaps just instilling "giving back" to the community as part of being a participating member of a -- or any -- community.

Yet, punishment levied by the legal system is often a prescribed amount of "community service" hours to be proven by time-served and substantiated to the court.

I suppose overall it's some sort of learning experience. I wonder which one has the most positive impact?

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Riley
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Do you think community service should be used as a punishment? Do you think it gives kids the wrong idea, ie. that community service is a punishment?
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chatten
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and not all kids that get into trouble come from 'woe is me' backgrounds either but some use that as an excuse to explain their actions
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Mikhailoh
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I certainly did not come from a woe is me background and I never ever used it as an excuse for what I did. I did all the things I did because it was FUN! Or profitable. That was big too.

In short, I was never a bad human being, just utterly disrespected the rules. The fact that these kids are not bad kids is not indication that they will not continue on their way. For me, occasionally getting caught for the many things we did daily was just the cost of doing business. It was bound to happen. You didn't whine about it, saying how unfair it was the world was picking on you. You just endured whatever inconvenience it brought and went on.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Riley
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Mikhailoh
Oct 29 2013, 02:41 AM
For me, occasionally getting caught for the many things we did daily was just the cost of doing business. It was bound to happen.
Sounds like the mafia mentality. :lol2:

(I've been watching too much Sopranos lately :whome: )
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VPG
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Someone say Mafia?


I guess I was a sucky face kid. I never ever did a bad thing, got punished, had a teacher scold me, or have a cop look at me funny.
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My four older brothers were completly opposite. Why would that be?
By the way, only a Mother involved.
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Mikhailoh
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Riley
Oct 29 2013, 05:12 AM
Mikhailoh
Oct 29 2013, 02:41 AM
For me, occasionally getting caught for the many things we did daily was just the cost of doing business. It was bound to happen.
Sounds like the mafia mentality. :lol2:

(I've been watching too much Sopranos lately :whome: )
Actually, a lot of my street sense came not only from hanging out at the pool hall (a truly fine piece of Americana that I miss to this day), but from what I read - Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown about growing up in Harlem, Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman, that sort of thing.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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