Lack of education contributes to crime

As more and more low-income families move into neighborhoods that once catered to the middle or upper class, one must be vigilant about their own personal safety and report any criminal activity occurring around them. Crime is everywhere in these neighborhoods where kids find too much free time after school hours or after the school year ends.

What also contributes to the crime rate in those places? Is it just a lack of money for low-income families? Sometimes the crime can be attributed to a lack of education on the part of the perpetrators or their families.

It is a statistical fact that the crime rate is inversely proportional to the education level of the culprit. Children who grow up in families that don’t emphasize the importance of getting an education are more likely to live on the streets, use drugs, join gangs, or end up in prison.

Sometimes the parents raising these children were raised in similar conditions when they were young. Nothing has changed. Education should be foremost in the minds of parents when raising their children. Indeed, education is the key to getting out of poverty. As the old saying goes, “Get out of the gutter with a book, not a basketball.”

Kids who don’t get a good education at school are more likely to have a hard time finding a job, getting into college, or staying out of trouble with the law. Many times they have family problems that are attributed to the loss of a parent at a young age due to death or incarceration.

Children from single-parent households are at risk of growing up as “at risk” children. This is due to the fact that the parent must work to provide food and shelter for the child, and the absence of the other parent does not provide leadership or guidance for a growing mind. A parent who is incarcerated will definitely not be around to guide the child to do well in school.

What kind of message does an incarcerated parent send to a child? Is it okay to be dumb and stupid and end up in jail like his dad? Like father Like Son. Right? Is it okay to skip school and join a gang like his dad did?

The truth of the matter is that children who drop out of school will face difficulties in their lives as they grow older. Lack of education on your part means lack of money to support a family. Lack of money translates into robbing a bank or convenience store.

Every day we hear on the news about a robbery happening in our city or somewhere else. Or maybe a gunshot by the perpetrator that caused an innocent life to come to an abrupt halt.

What do children do today? How can we prevent our own children from becoming problem children? On the one hand, a parent must be a good role model and emphasize the importance of a good education. That means parents should take an active role in their children’s education by monitoring how much television a child is allowed to watch and taking charge of knowing the kind of friends their child associates with. Also, this means maintaining communication with your teachers at school and checking your report card regularly.

A child with poor academic performance may indicate that something is wrong at school. Perhaps he doesn’t like school due to outside influences; i.e. bullying, difficult teachers, teasing from other students, or peer pressure.

It’s best to catch the child’s problem as early as possible before it gets to the point of the child skipping school or, worse yet, acting out their frustration that is reflected in another Virginia Tech-like massacre.

A child should like his studies and show interest in his school work. He should be taught that good grades will help him get a good education so that he can get a well-paying job and be a productive member of society after graduation.

Teach your child that getting involved in gangs, violence, drugs, and/or extortion will get them nowhere but prison. Once a person ends up serving a life sentence, there IS no second chance. There is no freedom for him. No TV, no video games, no music, nothing! Not even a chance to get an education behind bars. If there is a school in prison, education is very limited.

If you’re raising a child, ask your child what’s going on in school if he’s struggling academically. Spend quality time with him/her. Help them with her homework if possible. Remember, you are not just her friend, you are her father. You are the first role model a child looks up to since childhood. So be nice and teach him what’s right by staying in school.

There is a story in Austin, Texas a few years ago. It involved a troubled 17-year-old high school dropout, Manuel Cortez, who was out with his friends in a stolen car one sunny afternoon and shot another student, Christopher Briseño, whom he didn’t even know because Briseño was allegedly joking. with the sister of Manuel’s friend. Manuel Cortez is now serving a life sentence because he made a stupid decision. Now the families of the victim and the perpetrator are suffering two losses from society. All for what? Why did Mr. Cortez choose to drop out of school and associate with gangs and/or violence? Is he thinking of giving up the chance of an education so he can hang out in gangs? Or did he not have adequate support and guidance from his parents?

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