Part 9;
Boot Camp Re-education Program
Or a type of
Boot Camp Community College
Or a form of adult re-education, I believe that so mething has to be done to clean our cities of the persistent drug problem, we have in our society. Trying to eliminate the problem at the source where the drugs come from, IS NOT the best way of dealing with a problem. We have been doing it all backwards. Helping people, the end user is where we should be putting our money and efforts. After all if you want to sell something, you must first have a demand for it, or create a market.
For those people that get into drugs, etc., are usually the disadvantaged. But even now days it’s all over all social classes. We are not doing or helping alleviate the problem after all the years and money we have through at the situation. I believe that if we put our efforts into the people, we could reduce the problem and possibly eliminate it. Building and creating a productive new part of society, helping create less poverty or a big part of it. A state could end up saving millions of dollars from its crime budget alone.
Boot camp college would be a re-education program for current societies young people, who didn’t get the real opportunities or the right type of education. This would also include students, who dropped out, are on drugs, gangs or just plain fell out of the system for so many social reasons.
This would be a two-year program on a special campus somewhere in a state’s rural area. This could be a place where they would stay for the full program and only leave upon graduation AR ITER! CATION and straight into a trade, with a job waiting for them upon the required completion. With a good health and proper eating program would also be taught.
Now, what I am going to propose here may not be legally proper, but I believe that to rid our cities of drugs, gangs and those that missed out on societies opportunities, that there are extreme measures that need to be taken. To eliminate a problem, it needs to be dealt with at the end user, where the problem is, nipping it in the bud with the end user, eliminating the demand. Once the demand is gone, the source dries up. We would have to target these types of individuals and remove them from their given city.
Putting our money where it counts, with the person, not the war on drugs, allowing people to achieve a proper healthy life and a career of opportunities for their life, helping them to be included in society, each city could partner with Homeboy Industries, who has been doing this since 1988 in L.A. They have a well-proven program and experience in this type of social renewing. There would need to be a military type physical education program in the beginning, working the drugs out of their systems etc, and with proper health and nutrition education.
This would be a closed campus style community, no leaving for the students that would populate the area. This would not be, or anything like a prison. It would be a state run system, 24 hour security, small dorms for each person, sleep, study and bathroom type dorms like any other on a college campus. They would not be allowed to leave until the required courses are completed. Students would first be evaluated upon their arrival. At which time their education level would be determined and a chosen program would be developed for them.
All of their needs would be supplied. Goodwill could supply the clothing needed. There could be an on-Campus Store for students to get the everyday items they may need for their rooms at no cost. A tv in each room, but with limited outside tv would be allowed only at certain hours and only value education programming, PBS etc. Religious courses would be studied, with video classes on their tv, examples like teachings from people like Charles & Andy Stanley, or Greg Laurie, which are a few of my favorites. Other in class courses of study would be designed per persons evaluation and their God given life purpose would be included along with career studies and hands on courses for their given area of talent. And certain YouTube channels could be included.
Upon their two-year completion and graduation, they would be set up in the city of their choice and a job and place to live. Along with a thousand dollars to get them started. No more dumping them back into society with no resources to help them, with a chance to fall back from where they came, giving them a new resource counselor, for them to follow up with, every month for the first two years. If a state were to do this, with a true and honest effort and not half-done effort, I believe we would eliminate our drug and poverty problem from our cities and state. Reduce that extra strain on our police, courts, jails, reducing some of the health and legal expenses our state and cities incur, that are caused by these bad situations.
Helping them by taking them out of their environment, they create in our cities. Giving them the opportunity they may have never had, of a proper education in a good school environment and opportunities they were denied by their circumstances. Out cities and states would be new and better places for all. I believe there are many benefits not yet seen that would benefit from a program such as this.