There are plenty of ethnic areas here in NYC. There are plenty of poor people in those areas. The kids in these areas have a lot of unsupervised time on their hands. They think up a lot of ways to use that time. They play unorganized street sports like we did as kids. But that leaves them plenty of time to do other things.

Going to regular school is not the answer for them. It was not the answer for me.
They have no rules at home. They don't want to have to follow rules in school.

I may have the record for the most days playing hooky when I went to school.

Some think we should push trade school rather then going to college. I think it is a great idea. But when these kids are of High school age they don't want to go to any school.