More action needed to bolster good behavior

Alan Borsuk:

I don't know exactly what happened during a funeral at a church at N. 53rd and W. Burleigh streets last Tuesday, but I know it was bad.

I know a lot more about what happened in the library at Bradley Tech High School the next morning, and I know it was good.

I took rather personally the debacle at the church, where the funeral of a teenage murder victim attracted a large crowd of youths and a ruckus among them brought police rushing to the scene. I live nearby. My synagogue is about 50 yards from the church. My neighbors and my family don't like visitors like these kids in our still-pretty-solid neighborhood.

The next morning, I was in the library at Bradley Tech as about 20 students from Tech and Vincent High School demonstrated the "restorative justice" program that helps them deal with problems and resolve disputes constructively. They were celebrating a $90,000 grant from AT&T to support that program and a program aimed at boosting math success.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 27, 2012 2:36 AM
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