The curfew D.C. plans to enforce may cause a shift in when and where juvenile crimes occur, but that’s not the change that’s needed.
The notes I took in college now sit in a dust-covered box in my basement, but I can still remember where on the page my pen stopped moving in class one day.
That’s where my pen stopped. None of the teenagers I knew growing up played tennis or chess, at least not seriously enough to care about how they compared to others. I raised my hand.“What if,” I asked, “that teenager was instead surrounded by other teenagers who were in gangs or had spent time in juvie? How would that affect the way they saw themselves?”The professor responded thoughtfully but with an uncertain enough answer that I later decided to find my own.
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