We could help provide programs that the residents of this area are unable to provide for their schools. Programs should be installed in the local schools of the South Bronx neighborhood, that will educate the children. These can make them aware of the advantages that school, and communinity service programs hold to prepare the youth for the working field. We could also help provide the schools and children with programs that will teach them about drugs and health issues. Not only will the youth learn but they will be aware of the situations that surround them, in their everyday lives.
Children are the key to the future.
The conditions in which they are in for 6 hours a day, in Mott Haven's public schools, are amongst the worst. The students in these South Bronx schools are at times placed in abandoned buildings, where students consume lead poisining. Though the schools that Kozol spaeks about can not compare to the advantages given at specialized schools such as Stuyvesant, the students shoyld not be denyed the right to attend schools such as Stuyvesant. The programs that would be installed in Mott Haven's public schools, would encourage students to continue in their education. This programs priority would be to work with the students, afterall it is the students that make the school and not the school that makes the students.