The neighborhood divides

What divides a neighborhood? Is it income status, ethnicity, or standards? If you bike through Brooklyn, you get to observe and hear the variables Brooklyn offers by community; if you drive you merely get to see it. As I teach from Crown Heights to Canarsie, from Stuyvesant to Valley Stream, I'm convinced the solution to the challenges facing most schools encountering problematic pupils is not the school but the parents.
Children, no different than us, will only do what they are allowed.
We allow boys and older males to wear their jeans below their buttocks exposing their briefs/boxers.
I'll never get used to it and sharply look away when I see it.
I wish I could get other women/mothers to join me since "MEN" aren't standing up with enough stance to make an impact. ACS can't make our children dress appropriately, but I know who can.
For as much criticism as Farakhan gets, you can't argue with the man when he is right.
Americas public has adopted a cereal bowl mentally. Americans take what they like and toss
out what doesn't "agree" with them, for it may consist of change, that makes one uncomfortable.
As I walked to my car after dismissal, the echoing outburst that gave me chills were filled with language street winos wouldn't say back in the day! And trust, it takes alot to give me chills,
if my mom were alive, she'd tell you!!! Knowing you've reached a few, means more than not having reached any. When you see young adults, especially males dressing appropriately, compliment them. Thank them for wearing their pants properly, fittingly, aptly or accordingly; just thank them! We ought to be startin somethin; lets focus more on the "Man in the Mirror".
Brooklyn can't get worst! We simply can't allow it.