SB36

SB36

Tara Cassidy, Wisconsin, Moderate Jordyn Evans, Oregon, Moderate

Purpose
With the Change the Gangs bill we plan to go to inner city middle schools and have a two week unit on gangs. Inner cities are where most gangs occur. Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, and Los Angeles are some hot spots for gangs. We want to teach the kids the importance of staying out of these violent groups. We’ll explain what a gang is and that if you choose to join one you can end up either dead on the streets or in jail for a really long time. This bill will be geared toward middle school students in inner cities.

Terms and Benefits

 * 1) Inner city Middle Schools will receive education about gangs, the dangers of participating in them, and the consequence.
 * 2) These two week units will be thought by the schools guidance consolers, the consolers will also be given a web address so they can print out pamphlets to give to the students.
 * 3) The print out pamphlet will contain stories of real people who were in gangs and how they viewed gang life. It will also contain a website they can visit to read more stories, statistics, etc. about gangs.
 * 4) The federal government will pay for local police officers to come into the schools to teach people about their experiences breaking up gangs. Federal government will as well pay for the guidance consolers to teach the unit.
 * 5) The federal government along with the board of education of that city will put together the unit and what needs to be thought.
 * 6) This bill will make sure that future generations know the dangers of these violent groups, to decrease the growth of them.

To be able to but our bill into place we would need to be able to have accesses to computers to be able to print off pamphlets. We also would need to have accesses to police officers, and guidance counselors. Since the federal government will pay for the police officers to come in to talk to the middle school children, we will need money to pay for that. We also will need to pay for the guidance counselors to teach this extra unit.