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March 12, 2010
SERGIO ARGUETA IN NEW YORK NEWSDAY WRITES ABOUT THE VIOLENCE
By Profesor Martin Danenberg "El Quijote del GED"
I want all of the community organizations that are hungry to get money to operate to do one thing. Bring a gang member or other youth hanging out on the streets into your program today and give that person the OPT or Official Practice Test for the GED. Show them that you care about them. Your community organizations have been as effective as the police, doing its job but not quite good enough. Where is the mention of the GED in Sergio Argueta's article? If the police themselves had administered the GED Practice Test to youth they arrested as part of their confinement process, we probably would not have had this great outburst of violence in Brentwood and other communities. I said probably not definitely. Why do people neglect to mention the GED for the youth in gangs and just focus on the youth in general in speaking to the community or writing articles? I do not get it except for this. It seems to be all about the money and the survival of organizations that people say are doing a great job when I know they are not. "Great" is a word we use too loosely. I, personally, have accomplished only a millionth of what I set out to do. Sergio, let us bring the GED to MS-13 members around the country and to their fellow gang members in El Salvador today. When I called for a youth conference about three years ago, where was the support for my idea from all of those community organizations?
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NEW YORK 11749
631-348-1341
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Profesor Martin Danenberg March 12, 2010 08:37 AM