Someone has to educate them. Teachers play parent, counselor and moderator. We have to find time to educate children, and then school boards and administrations tell us we have to follow a certain curriculum.
Teaching is hard enough without having to follow a timeline everyone else is on.
That anger is often misplaced. Stereotyping exists, but it never killed anyone in a poor black neighborhood. I have no problem with her because I don't commit crimes. Commissioner John Timoney would rather dump enforcement of underage drinking laws on the State Police's Liquor Control Enforcement Bureau, freeing up more Philadelphia police to go after felons, but only two state troopers are assigned to the city and four surrounding counties. In the 12th Police District, had we not insisted police target underage drinking enforcement through Nuisance Night Court, we'd not have achieved an 83 percent reduction in underage drinking arrests and a 60 percent reduction in youth violence.