"The fortress-like nature of the 138-year-old building, a jail built by Civil War soldiers that still has bars on the window and an attic where prisoners were once hung"
Why am I thinking "The Sixth Sense," folks?
So how long until they are turned into INDUCTION CENTERS?
"Educators look to Pittsfield to combat truancy; Juvenile center serving as model for Boston effort to aid those in need" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | September 26, 2008
PITTSFIELD - At about 1 p.m., a half-dozen teenagers in jeans and sneakers walked into an enormous, red-brick building surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
They smiled and waved at corrections officers guarding the front door, walked through a metal detector, and headed to meet employment specialists or take classes in politics, English literature, or computer science.
They are sent here because they habitually skip school or have dropped out. But once they walk through these doors, they cannot leave until they have finished their classes. They are each assigned a caseworker who knows their academic record, medical history, and whether they are having troubles at home. For three hours, they attend class or learn how to fill out job applications and interview with prospective employers.
The Juvenile Resource Center, nestled in the hills of the Berkshires, has become a template for Boston school officials as they pursue plans to open a center for truants and dropouts this school year - part of an aggressive campaign that could involve putting five times as many officers on the street to look for absent students.
How about solving the ROBBERIES, RAPES, MURDERS, DRUG DEALS and the PEDOPHILE CASES first, huh?
WTF, readers?
Boston school officials are scouring locations for their center as they work with Boston, MBTA, and school police, who have suggested giving an additional two dozen officers the legal authority to take truant students back to school. Irvin Scott, academic superintendent for high schools in Boston, said the cost of the center could be substantial, though he declined to provide estimates. He said school officials hope to absorb much of the cost by diverting resources rather than tapping the budget.
TRILLIONS for WARS, WAR LOOTERS and BANKS, BILLIONS for ISRAEL, but NOTHING for OUR KIDS -- except WARS based on LIES!!!!!!!
Between November 2007 and May 2008, police officers stopped 612 students in Boston during truancy sweeps as part of Operation StopWatch, a program that tried a gentler approach with truant teens.
At WAR with our KIDS!
Who can blame them for dropping out after all the lies we tell them?
The goal of the center, which would be called a transition center, is to create a place with counselors, teachers, even mental health and medical specialists, who will have the time to deal one on one with troubled students, find out what their needs are, and figure out how to help them finish school.
After they what, TAKE YOU AWAY from the PARENT?
Sure what it SOUNDS LIKE!
The fortress-like nature of the 138-year-old building, a jail that still hasbuilt by Civil War soldiers bars on the window and an attic where prisoners were once hung, has become a large part of the center's success, said Berkshire County Sheriff Carmen C. Massimiano Jr.
Oh my God!!!!
We are sending the kids to a CIVIL WAR JAIL!!!!!! Good God!!!
"The kids feel safe," said Carole Siegel, a mental health consultant at the center. "Most of them come from chaotic existences. When they come through that entrance, they see the officers, their shoulders go down. They are safe."
Oh, is THAT what IMPRISONMENT is called?
"Safety?"
Boston's center is unlikely to be a former jail, said Scott, who would rather put the students at a community college.
"I just think it is so important to be careful about the messages that we send," Scott said. "I don't want to in any way send a message that this is a criminalization of them . . . We want to send that message that we care too much to let them go."
But we will SEND THEM OFF TO WAR on the basis of BUSH'S LIES -- and LET THEM STAY THERE!!
Shaddup, fascista hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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