Youthbuild: The Declaration of Inter-Dependence

["Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>]

Youthbuild: The Declaration of Inter-Dependence 

Here is the link to the document and pasted below that is the section related to schools. Monty

http://www.youthbuild.org/declaration.html

 
INTRODUCTION 

This Declaration of Inter-dependence has been developed by the YouthBuild National Young Leaders Council and the YouthBuild National Alumni Council. Input was given by the YouthBuild Alumni Association. We first published it in 1999 and revised it in 2004. Our two councils include 30 young people elected by our peers to represent 25,000 former YouthBuild members across the country. These 25,000 youth were raised poor and were temporarily disconnected from society, but they found a YouthBuild program in their community that helped them rediscover their potential and find direction toward their own goals.

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 
Most of our constituents did not complete high school in their first try. They left school for a variety of reasons. In some cases the schools failed the students; in others the students failed themselves. Sometimes it was a mixture of both the schools and the students failing. In any case, it is necessary to change the public school system so that more youth have a successful education.