Kids are the toxic waste of violence that breeds violence
November 21st, 2008 by Site Admin
Read Mark’s latest article for the Guardian’s Society section, on the subject of violence towards children, and its effects.
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March 12th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Its sad and whats more sad is that people dont understand cause they havent ever felt like it. I am a 15 year old and I grow up like this and I know loads of people who do just like me and this is normal and thats just rubbish but what do you do. Who do you talk to and where do you go. No one is interested we cant go home and if we hang around anywhere we get moved on so what is there we can do. I know loads of people who dont even go home cause there is no one there and nothing to go home to. May as well get smashed as well cause thats all there is. life is harsh and alot of people know that but its the fact of accepting that, people like you do cause they know and so you have to stick together, but adults who dont understand and make the policies and stuff dont know nothing bout it and this isnt just me I am a kid in a comprehensive school like most of the country!!
. like going home to going to get smashed it dosent matter cause you know that life is unpridictable.some conserquences that you face in life is cause you have actually done a bad thing and if more people accepted that, this place would be better. You have to help more than just saying its wrong and putting people in prison. Wont stop people from reoffending if you put them in prison, they need help and they need support. its SO SIMPLE
March 12th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Its sad to read this but I agree that life is like this and its like it more than you think. If you have a problem at home you cant really do nothing about it cause if you tell someone social get involved and its get worse. When you lose people you rely on there is no one to talk to about it you go on some waiting list or go from person to person and you just wanna shout HHHHHHHHHHELLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP MMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE . I think we “teenagers” need a place we can go filled with people we can talk to THEN cause you need to talk to someone THEN not hundreds of years later when they take you number and call you back, its like no one cares and you need to talk man, theres nothing we can talk to and about things cause sometimes its just no worth the hassle to say how you feel..best to just SCRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAMMM and do STUDIP things…then they LISTEN…
we have a lesson at our school and it helps us at school,because we can express how we feel and stuff like that its one hour a week but it helps us to make things make sense. Some people only go to this lesson and its only thing at school we enjoy.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
this article makes me think sometimes because when i hear about baby p because i real feel a shame for some litte kids when they get beet up. any way my life sometimes makes me happy because i like helping everybody thats what i am a kind of person who like to help each other.there is one thing what makes me happy is doing sign lanuage for my mum. and when i have left school i really want to do a job about sign lanuage because i think it will be helpful for me. I think the article is right people on my estate grow up like it and you know that they are gonna be bad when they are bigger. I want to change my life and do something good when I grow up and be differnt to most people on my estate.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I think people commit crimes because they want to and they want to cause they like the feeling. I think that Mark explains it in this and I dont understand those words but I know the feeling. I try not to get into trouble but I just do. I am 14. I will most probably get excluded from school cause I dont like being told what to do cause I just cant handle it. I dont know why, maybe it is cause of my life., It hasnt been easy really and the police know who I am but if people shout I shout back simply as. If people push me I push back. SOmetimes I push and shout first cause I know its gonna kick off. Everything is MY FAULT i am a LET DOWN and a DISAPPINTMENT and NAUGHTY and a GOB ON A STICK and THICK and a BULLY GOD KNOWS what else but I am ALL of those things…people say my name and all of those things. Really I am me, but its hard to get a break when people have already decided that you are a FAILURE and they tell me thats what I will BE. Its like they want it to HAPPEN. almost everyone in my lifewaits for me to get it wrong. No one trusts me anymore. I dont really like myself. You have to just believe that the one person who believes in you is RIGHT and evryone else is WRONG
I wish that things could be there to help when youre little so you have time to get things right and that you have a life where getting stuff right is more important than getting stuff wrong.