Do more to help troubled youth

[JJKirk]

I believe we can do more to help children who are currently struggling. When children misbehave at school they are quickly labeled. Classrooms are overcrowded and teachers are stressed out which is understandable. Children as young as even first grade are now being sent to alternative schools. If kids think they are bad and others think they are bad- they will feel this way inside. Rather than put children in alternative schools with other children who act out - we need to think of something different. Counseling is needed but we can do more. Middle class parents cannot afford treatment many times due to cost of counseling with their high deductible health insurance. Not every child is blessed to have good parents and good neighborhoods either not to mention now see hatred all over social media. I also believe we need more camps that teach school work with good counselors and spiritual leaders. These children could be doing something to help the community in these camps as well- grow food or help repair homes for elderly. While one positive experience will never help every child or even half- if it helped some then that could permanently impact a child for the better. Every child I see on tv that has committed a crime as a mother I can’t help but feel another child lost.