[B]Tell me your thoughts please[/B]:
I recently put my 13 year old daughter in the Teen police program on our military base. I had read about it in the local paper; the teen interacts with the MP's twice a week for six weeks. On Tuesdays, the teens go on a LEO related field trip--i.e the Youth Detention Facility, The Forensic Science Lab, the County Courthouse, etc. On Thursdays, each teen goes out on a 4-hour shift with an MP riding around, observing, etc. They, of course have been briefed to follow the MP's commands, like not to get between the MP and the subject under investigation for example. They (teens) wear a bullet proof vest under their uniform (the teen police polo, black pants and shoes), and a road guard vest "teen police".
Anyway, my child was so angry--she has that similar attitude a lot of teens have about the police--not positive. Bottom line, my intent was for her to gain a sense of respect for authority, some ethical reasoning, and to not be like many of her peers, sitting around waiting for trouble to find them. Am I so wrong? I learned that while she is in a good school system here and makes good to average grades, over 2/3s of her peers have failed the 7th grade. I could go on and on as you can see...
Nevertheless--she is (my teen) a Teen Police and I pray she gets something out of it and stops believing in the negative urban legends about LEOs
I recently put my 13 year old daughter in the Teen police program on our military base. I had read about it in the local paper; the teen interacts with the MP's twice a week for six weeks. On Tuesdays, the teens go on a LEO related field trip--i.e the Youth Detention Facility, The Forensic Science Lab, the County Courthouse, etc. On Thursdays, each teen goes out on a 4-hour shift with an MP riding around, observing, etc. They, of course have been briefed to follow the MP's commands, like not to get between the MP and the subject under investigation for example. They (teens) wear a bullet proof vest under their uniform (the teen police polo, black pants and shoes), and a road guard vest "teen police".
Anyway, my child was so angry--she has that similar attitude a lot of teens have about the police--not positive. Bottom line, my intent was for her to gain a sense of respect for authority, some ethical reasoning, and to not be like many of her peers, sitting around waiting for trouble to find them. Am I so wrong? I learned that while she is in a good school system here and makes good to average grades, over 2/3s of her peers have failed the 7th grade. I could go on and on as you can see...
Nevertheless--she is (my teen) a Teen Police and I pray she gets something out of it and stops believing in the negative urban legends about LEOs
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