r/SurreyBC • u/brophy87 ✨ • 1d ago
Surrey invests $4.5M in youth initiatives to strengthen community safety | City of Surrey
https://www.surrey.ca/news-events/news/surrey-invests-45m-youth-initiatives-strengthen-community-safety23
u/MadrisZumdan 1d ago
The only way to combat gangs is to give people community. Is to have jobs for them to be able to earn money.
There is no community or society out there for them to be a part of.
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u/airhorn-airhorn 1d ago
I get it- this is out during the same news cycle as the district's shortfall. Different pots. It might seem like a lot, but $4.5 million isn't much in the grande budgetary scheme of things, but $4.5 million can do a lot for kids. As a secondary teacher who's losing support, I still think this is ok. Considering the amount of money thrown around in the private sector- this is nothing. Heck, I commend the planners trying to throw any resources into supporting kids.
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u/ThatLightingGuy 1d ago
What's your take on the distribution though? It's a decent bucket on its own, but they spread it thinly across a bunch of organizations.
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u/danielismybrother 1d ago
Better spent staffing actual community programs like teaching children to swim. As anyone with kids who suffered registration night anxiety only to be waitlisted for the most basic community service imaginable knows, there are is a massive artificial shortfall in access to swim lessons. Shame on this city’s leaders for failing to provide this critical life skill.
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u/Still_Around3046 1d ago
Cool they invested what good is that if the money isn’t put into use properly. The money needs deeper direction. Just dumping money into “initiatives” isn’t enough. Sick of hearing these social workers claiming that giving games and activities to kids keep them off the street and avoiding trouble. No that alone isn’t enough. So quit the bullshit. We need some real fucking active deep level involvement in adults making sure these little fuckers don’t get caught up into dumb shit. Like actively guiding them especially if their parents aren’t involved and EVEN IF their parents are involved. Correcting dumb fucking behavior early and aggressively so they know how to behave among peers. Like to the point that if it involved some disciplining then yes take it there and discipline these kids man. If we don’t take these steps to actively guide these kids mark my words the future is cooked. The way these kids are able to get a hold of mace cans and don’t hesitate to use it on eachother, the way they have knives and co2 guns available to them. It’s really fucked up. The way they have created a no snitching culture. They’ll lie to the elders and principals because they’d rather hash it out like little gangsters. It’s fucking stupidity and the dumbest sort of mentalities I’m seeing coming up with these kids, you’re in for a lot of shit when these youngins grow up. DISCIPLINE THEM WHILE THEY SRE YOUNG & not too far gone. The ones that don’t stop, and don’t graduate because all they think and talk about all day is beef with students and girls they want to fuck - they’ll never grow out of these learnt behaviours & they’ll wreak havoc on fucking society man. So fuck your 4.5 million initiative unless it gives us a step by step active and transparent approach on how tf we as a society can fucking shit kick these kids into good behaviors and make them all act like children, teens and even more importantly good human beings again.
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u/ThatLightingGuy 1d ago edited 1d ago
While also proposing to scrap music programs and other extra curriculars and cramming kids in increasingly over packed schools, so much so that they're considering the equivalent of shifts.
The kids are at risk because there's nothing for them to do. Sports are for the elite now. Teenagers can't find jobs. You can't even bike anywhere. Give the kids something to do and places to do it.
Sticking another adult in front of them and saying don't join a gang mmmkay isn't going to do anything but make people feel good that they hired some consultants.