Today's youth play a very important role for our society because they are the future of our nation. Many communities suffer from a lack of support system to help these kids through growing up. With a lack of support the youth can easily become lost in this world. Without the support of teachers, parents, and others to our youth how can we expect them to know how to make it. Jeff Duncan gave an excellent speech on how he has a support team who help the youth in his community in Eastern Oakland. One great thing I took from Duncan was how he said all teachers talk about are test scores and assignments when they should be mentoring their students not only in studies, but life. Duncan explains through his support system he has many teens that no one thought would go to college now in a four year universities and colleges. Through the violence in Oakland there was a study proven that youth growing up in that community have been developing CPSTD which is also common with our troops coming back from Afghanistan. There is no wonder why the youth have trouble staying focused in school when friends, family, and neighbors are being murdered left and right. Its is also very difficult to focus in school because you can have fear that next you could be the one who dies. I love that Jeff has a great support system to help guide the kids to college throughout out all the struggles of their community. Without a support system to keep the kids out of all the mess the communities will just get worse and worse. This is why our nation needs more people like Jeff to take a stand and help our youth. Watching this speech made me also link it to that Jeff has a burning passion for our youth and to guide them out of the hood and to success.
Questions..
1. How could help the youth in our communities?
2. How can we get people to help?
3. How can we stop the violence?
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