It's bad. It is seriously bad. The disrespect, lawlessness, lack of structure, positive drive, thuggery...
Had to end my Outreach Program last fall after 26 consecutive years. Fully funded by self and self's bonuses. I did too much to help guide, mentor, tutor, employ, assist towards schols/coll enrollment, financially assist, et al through the decades. I saved more than was lost so I'm thankful for those success stories.
The icing on the cake was 2-fold last fall. First, earlier 2019, I begged to get this one then 24 y/o employed (record a mile long since early teens). He did okay for 6 mos until he found an enabling decently rich white woman who told him you don't need to work or go to school at that raunchy community college AND, just stay at my house, smoke, play video games, and drive my 2nd volvo where you please. smh Summer 2020, dumbo decided to return to the SAME Subway where he worked and to jack the young white girl for the cash register, his former co-worker. He had a little bitty knife on him and cut the girl on her hand after she called his full name and hit him on the head with a pan, all on camera, his face visible for the world to see, no mask. AA, AA-DW, attempted-murder, and too many other charges were placed on him. He will die in jail. I bent over backwards for him to get that job and I did a lot of work to get him into comm college, w/ his mother's and grandma's much appreciated thanks.
2nd round was dummy #2 brought a gun to my bball court and shot it, after waving the gun across my face, an 8 yr old on one side of me, and then another 15 yr old seated next to me. That was the final straw, among too many others which occurred through the years. Sick and tired of looking at these boys in coffins simply because they do N-O-T listen to wisdom and great, sound advice/advise to help them further their life productively.
I am done. Finished. No desire.