Posted by christopher AARON Fette (154.20.89.80) on December 24, 2001 at 21:45:28:
In Reply to: Re: Straight, Inc. posted by Samuel Gridley Howe on September 22, 2001 at 10:48:33:
: :well my callous compadre howa bouts hittin your local legislature up for some cash for education ? howa bouts more money for your local aolescent mental health teams and maybe im bein assumptive but you sound like a parent so let me put in my disclaimer before i give you my moms shit- im not sayin any thing that happened to us was right but it gave my mom AA and therefore a better life for my brothers than i had growin up - after straght i went on to become a violent street kid who ten years later is finally getting it to gether and im not sayin straight did it all but i am sayin a small town boy from texas doesnt learn how to fight 6 people at once or cut himself to die or nurse a hernia as big as a base ball because they wouldn't admit that they had beaten me to that point and couldn't tell my parents 'til I got out. Or how about the drug testing , they fed me at twelve years old, enough prozac for an adult and then charged me for all the assaults when my brain went haywire. Heh man, I'm now a diagnosed scitzophrenic and I'm not blaming that on straight, but I will say it didn't help my habits, hallucinations or my dreams at night. After straight I ran away to live a life of pain, my poor ass parents lost their house because of straight and my dad ended up unemployed 6 months from movin to dallas to be a phaser parent so boo hoo your self and be more specific and positive and maybe we as a "group" can offer some solutions and positivity out of this like growing flowers from the shit mound i know i might not have survived prison and the streets if it wasnt for straight but then i might not have ended up there either so be real not critical and look for the grey area and if youre for real let me know i can hook you up with solutions if not i wont waste any more breath my e-mail is madtrapperof@yahoo.com LATER...A. I have knowledge of Kids of Bergen County from 85-86 time frame. What would you like to know?
: What is your alternative to out of control youth who will not come home, inject meth, steal from parents and are physically violent with other family members. Particularly when the parent don't have a lot of dough? Are parents required to just play open house party and keep quiet? Please offer an alternative not just boo hoo stuff.