I joke, but it does pain me that these kids have such opportunities provided to them and they just chuck it in the gutter...either because of "street cred", or the desire for some stupid outrageously priced piece of clothing or just pure damned idiocy because of a dumb ass for a mama or a daddy.
It is a crisis.
I wish we could change it.
This puts the lie to a number of things. He was in college. He was in the football program. But he still felt the need to engage in armed robbery? Was he doing it for “street cred”? Wanted his homies to “respect” him? (These are of course rhetorical questions). This sounds more like a “culture” issue. He was bored, so he decided to roll some convenience stores.
It won’t be ANY thing if he can run a 3.9 in the hundred ...
My daughter is a K-5 teacher. One of her kids told her the other day how much fun it is to steal. Not a hint of remorse. No empathy.
Headed for jail, and tragic.