The problems our children face are huge, the price is high and non-refundable the currency is their lives.   The magnitude of their problems scares me half to death but I would gladly give my lives if it would eliminate any one of the problems they face. 

Our children are killing each other in the street on a daily basis; it’s almost become commonplace and attributable to guns, drugs and gangs. Our daughters think being address by derogatory words are term of endearment. We have to change that by example.

We need to take back the task of raising our children and realize that educating them is not the sole responsibility of teachers; our children need their parent to be parents and let them find their own friends, because they are exposed to the following conditions on a daily basis and they need parental guidance to deal with them:

1. The rise of teenage gangs, drugs and guns violence.
2. Teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
3. So many of our youth are allowed to be more concerned with fashion trends in music, clothes, sex and easy ways of making money than acquiring a good education.

The guns and drugs that are destroying our kids and filling up the prisons and graves are not brought into this country or manufactured by our children.  Our children are our number one priority and we cannot allow them to linger on the shoulders of the information highways. 

Our neighborhoods and schools must show our children that how they live is more important than where they live. A well-kept community and clean uncrowned schools say we care.