Because of services like Street Links, I did not starve. Most of the kids on the street come from abusive situations. By closing down the places where we feel safe and accepted, you are telling us that you would rather have us abused and possibly killed than have us clutter up your pristine sidewalks with our need for help. Yours is a world where anyone under 18 has no rights, and anyone under 21 has nowhere to go and nothing to do. You tell us that we should stay in school, yet you continue to allow the conditions to be intolerable.
Teachers are underpaid and overworked.
There are so many people in one school that one small group of students could be the focus of an entire school's hatred, and no one could stop it. A lot of us have tried that, and it doesn't work. Then give us the right to change things. Give us somewhere to go and things to do that are worthwhile. While grossly mismanaged at times, the Center did meet the needs of many disenfranchised youth on the Hill.