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Streetlight Angels Podcast
The Dark Turn: When Good Kids Break
We dive into the troubling trend of good students turning to violence when pushed too far, exploring why straight-A kids sometimes reach breaking points that lead to tragic outcomes.
• Examining how media portrayal often criminalizes students involved in violent incidents without investigating bullying histories
• Discussing the mental health crisis in schools where even young children are experiencing severe anxiety and depression
• Highlighting the crucial importance of parent-teacher relationships in preventing escalation
• Sharing shocking statistics: 19% of students report being bullied and over 5,000 guns were found in K-12 schools in 2021-22
• Revealing that bullied children have a 40% higher chance of committing crimes later in life
• How leadership development and mentorship can intercept the path from victim to perpetrator
• Building proper support systems that treat bullying intervention with the same urgency as suicide prevention
Contact us at StreetlightAngelsPodcast@gmail.com or find us on Facebook if you're dealing with bullying issues – we promise to respond quickly and help get your situation addressed.
Welcome back to Streetlight Angels podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Josh Rakowski. This is episode number one three. I'm here with Eugene. Hello, everybody, Hope everybody's doing well.
Speaker 1:So today it's going to kind of hit home with quite a few people. We're going to be talking about what could potentially turn a good kid, a good bright child, into somebody that ends up what stabbing someone with, you know, the next day. We want to talk about that because you know it's happened quite a bit of times lately and it just happened again recently. Right, You're telling me a story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now I don't know the details, but what hit home to me is that immediately the media, instead of addressing what we're addressing with no bias, was making the person who got stabbed Right. But I don't know if he did it did anything to. You know, it's one of the things when it's a self-defense situation, sure, let's get clarity. And so it was just presented in a way that seemed like it wasn't self-defense, it was premeditated. That's the only time you would get first degree murder Right.
Speaker 1:So they were guilty until proven innocent, exactly. And actually they're still going through that process, right, right and so. But it came from a kid that was like Straight A yeah straight A squared away like awesome. To now he's labeled as this criminal because he stabbed somebody, but nobody knows what the warrant was Right, what warranted him getting.
Speaker 2:Right, and that's the thing. Is that not to say it is the victim's fault or the perpetrator or anything like that. It's to say that for us it's what makes a straight-A student you know who is documented a victim of bullying go to that next level. And what can we do as a village to prevent good kids going bad, as well as a kid who may not be a bad kid but not realize that those little jests may be a little too much for some people to handle?
Speaker 1:At least at that time Right, or if they don't have the support or the education to help them learn that that you know they can. They can break free from that feeling Right To where they don't want to do something even worse than they need to.
Speaker 2:Right, free from that feeling, right to where they don't want to do something even worse than they need to, right and now, with everybody looking at mental health seriously, we see now that a lot of kids are having mental health issues and a lot of that anxiety and depression is coming from schools, from being at school, and you know that's why you got a lot of homeschoolers now yeah, it's getting out of hand. When you have an eight-year-old skipping school because they don't want to go, you know it's like that's crazy and it's scary.
Speaker 1:It absolutely is. My boys are absolutely brilliant. But there's times where they're like I don't want to go to school at all and you're like what, that should be easy, bro. Like it's right chill for you. You know what Like go and enjoy it and just kind of kick it and do what you do, get your education on. But then I remember one time when we were in Japan he went to school and there was a bunch of kids Japanese kids making fun of him because he's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed kid in a Japanese school, right, you know what I mean bullied. And he was like I ain't going like to tears. And then come to find out that's what went down. The teacher didn't know about it. When we shed light on it, I mean, they nipped it in the bud quick, you know what I mean or actually not really nipped in it, but I feel like it was a little bit of a reactive thing. But after we had said something, it was like done, you know, and I feel like that's how it should be here too, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And I mean you you hit the process right on the head in the sense of, if you have the communication with your kids like, the kid is like, oh, I'm good, now we can, I go to school every day, no problem, sure, but you have in our system not every administrator is this way, but in our system with them being overwhelmed with so much and I'm making excuses for them because I don't know exactly what's going on, why there's's a disconnect or a lack of effort in that part. But you'll have a kid come home, tell the parent. Parent goes to the school principal or the teacher says, ok, I'll handle it, or the teacher will say, oh, that's not happening. You know, I was there, and so it's kind of like if a kid feels a certain way in any emotional state, you don't disregard the person's feelings as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially if they're getting bullied Right, yeah, for sure, and you do not want to take away from.
Speaker 2:And then some of them don't want to get out because the bullying is a zero tolerance thing in our country. Now, yeah, it's like they don't want to go through the procedures and paperwork Right To go through, you know, or?
Speaker 1:be labeled at the teacher that couldn't handle the child that was bullying someone else.
Speaker 2:You know what that's called. They'll have them wrote up as poor classroom management, because I remember when I used to run a classroom, all my kids were all behavioral special needs, so I knew they would have episodes and so I would never send them to the principal. What I would do is help them process through those issues and so even if let's say a person is oversensitive and they take something the wrong way and says it's bullying, ok, let's work through that. Yeah, yeah, discredited, or disregard the person feeling Sure, that individual episode. Yeah well, I used to have a kid who his impulse kids, you not was to take pencils, and so the kids would call him pencil thief and he did not like that. But he didn't understand why they were calling him that. But if they left their pencil on the desk, as they'd all be lining up for lunch, and as soon as the last student walks out, he's making his rounds at all the table taking all these pencils. But that was just part of his Pencil ninja.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like literally, sometimes he would leave lunch after he eats and sneak back in the classroom, steal all the pencils because they wouldn't let him be the caboose at the end of the line anymore and did what with them. What did he do with the pencils? He'd have them in his drawer.
Speaker 1:And then he'd be like— Remember that pencil break game. Oh yeah when you'd hold the pencil out and everybody would—.
Speaker 2:And it'd get smaller and smaller.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, and then you'd try to snap it and whoever's pencil snapped or whatever, first he was probably building up for that, huh had like a war chest of pencils.
Speaker 2:Every shape, size and color. Your pencil could be down to the nubs and he would still steal it.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. The teacher.
Speaker 2:You know those old throwaway pencils with no erasers. So she would give the kids that because when she was teaching math she wanted to see their work.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see, is that because?
Speaker 2:she, when she was teaching math. She wanted to see, oh, I see, and he would even steal those with no erasers. It was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Wow, so, and then they were, the kids would call him call him pencil, but he wouldn't know.
Speaker 2:He's like no, that was this thing. Yeah, he's just he didn't realize what he mind. This person is 14 years old, but he had a brain injury, and so the impulse there was there, but the maturity to process wasn't, and so he felt like he was being bullied, gotcha, so we really had to break it all the way down.
Speaker 2:Oh, that'd be difficult, you know what I mean, and sometimes because each child in a regular ed setting is still emotionally different from one another. You know you may be like say something about their shoes or something, yeah, and they may take it the wrong way.
Speaker 1:So really like get to somebody's feels without even knowing you're doing it, or you could bully somebody and not even know you're bullying them. One of my biggest things was a pet peeve growing up for me. I hated with a passion, even to this day is watching someone take advantage of someone else. It was always someone that was affecting someone else when that person didn't have the ability to stand up for themselves. Right, you know what I mean. And so essentially, bullying, right, somebody that didn't have that had no way to stick up for themselves. No confidence.
Speaker 2:That's right, no size on them.
Speaker 1:Man, that was my biggest pet peeve is watching that go down. I mean I may not even like that little kid or the little kid or knew him, or knew him. It was just one of and I ain't trying to be a hero, it was just like I wanted to show. I wanted that person that that was taking advantage of the week, essentially, or the unknown or the you know, like you were saying that the people that just don't have that confidence, and I wanted them to feel that same feeling.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. I had too much confidence. I wasn't a bully, but I had so much confidence that, like, bullies would team up to try to team up against you. Yeah, and it would be funny is that they would try to catch me in the bathroom. Yeah, you know, that's when I knew that. Like, hey, you know, I don't know what me and God's relationship was then, but he saved me a whole lot, did he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was one time this girl liked me and I knew of her, but I didn't even know her name. And the guy that liked her wanted to catch me in the bathroom and heard that I had said something to another bully. Like, white kids loved me when I was growing up because I had green eyes and light-skinned, so people thought I was mixed. So if you were messing with somebody and I was like, oh, no, you know, and they couldn't fend for themselves, I would be like that's my cousin. Oh, and they would believe it. Until they asked one of my real cousins like, is that your cousin? Like, he told me Jeremy was his cousin. Like, no, I just didn't want you messing with him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he met you in the bathroom, him and three of his other buddies.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh dude seriously, and I'm at the urinal and, kid you, not my cousin, was he's real cousin. Yeah, was albino, right, oh my God. So most of his friends were in the special needs class because they had to do Braille and they had big print books, sure. So they had a classroom where it was regular ed, yep, yep. His friend, david, who cannot see, saw them going to the bathroom behind me Isn't that crazy, what? And told my cousin like no way, david is legally blind, but he saw enough to saw something wasn't right.
Speaker 1:And so that's what you're saying. God was on your side.
Speaker 2:Hey, look, wait. And then your cousin came in sight to the blind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did that day.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, holy cow. So my cousin because he grew up being picked on so much, being albino on both sides, sure, he learned real quick how to handle himself and be strong people would try to jump him at night, thinking he couldn't see at night. Oh wow, that's when his vision is the best, because he didn't have any sunlight reflecting in his eyes, right and yeah, so he would mop them up. Oh, my gosh, they didn't catch on until he was an adult then not to try to jump him at night.
Speaker 1:So and then here's the thing like you've got that bullying that could take a kid that is, like you know, straight A student, and then that could be just enough to kind of deviate them from normal goals in their own life, and then next thing you know they're freaking, stabbing people, right, right, right right. You got some statistics on this, don't yeah?
Speaker 2:I. The first one that surprised me was approximately 19 of students ages 12 to 18 report being bullied during 2021. 22, which is still high, but it's it's down and what it used to be yeah, and so definitely frowned upon now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Remember when it was first starting and then people were like man, let him be bullied. You always had that two type of person Right. Someone was like I got bullied. You know what I mean? That's what made me who I am.
Speaker 2:And they weren't really that great of a person.
Speaker 1:Usually not. You'd be like you didn't get hugs. We can see that Right. And yeah, you also got bullied. You know what I mean. And look at you now.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean or good on you for being the bigger person and kind of learning that I think if somebody gets bullied they immediately need a mentor. It's kind of like their dad, their mom, their best friend.
Speaker 2:Well, sometimes the parents are not as equipped.
Speaker 1:And that's why we're defending our kids right away, right and like who bullied you, bro, as opposed to guiding. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, it's a difference between guiding and defending. Sure and so, and then sometimes a child doesn't absorb as much from the parent, right then, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's always that aha moment later that, oh, this is what mom or dad was talking about. Catching it from someone else, a different perspective, that's not blood related or whatever. Right, you're right. I think a mentor would be good. You would think an educator, a teacher, would be that mentor. But right, sometimes they're not. Even I got time for this, or I don't get paid enough for this, or I got some kind of excuse.
Speaker 2:And we all believe that teachers don't get paid enough. Oh, absolutely they don't. But with everything that's going on in the system now, it's kind of like what are we paying you for? You know what I mean it's like because we, like we can find our own child care, and school shouldn't be child care and a melting pot of not even a melting pot of cooking pot for violence, because, like we were saying is, some kids will skip school all the way up into high school just to avoid unnecessary drama, right, and you know, and violence, and so it's not, maybe not even they're not even getting bullied, they just don't want to be.
Speaker 1:next, so you got the good guys, the good straight-edge cats that get bullied, that turn and transition into these like evil people because they think that they don't have any way out other than to kind of bring that back or kind of go tenfold you know what I mean like I'm gonna bring it back to you tenfold. Not only did you bully me to the point where I can't take it anymore. Now I'm just going to kill you, right, you know? May I straight up murder you, because obviously there's nothing more important to me than that now In 2021 and 22,.
Speaker 2:That school year, over 5,000 guns were found, from kindergarten to 12th grade 5,000. Can you imagine? I mean that actually just says schools 5,000 schools in the US reported guns being found in their facility, and so that's the facility. That's not. You know how many students that affected, or didn't?
Speaker 1:get found.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you're right, there's a lot of stuff in there that I'm sure the statistics aren't even pulling up Right, because a lot of schools don't even have security to even be vigilant and recognizing the signs and symptoms, those behaviors that indicate the education's not there. Yeah, or they don't care. That's what I like about Angel Force, because anybody working with Angel Force cares enough to apply their training to the job. They don't get stagnant and they build that relationship with that kid.
Speaker 1:They build that relationship with that faculty member.
Speaker 2:They make it to where that kid is not going to want to bring a gun into school, you know because, in a sense, Angel Force operator is more like a mentor in the sense of hey, when it comes to your mental and physical safety, I'm here and not not here just for the very show. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, you know, the Angel Guards man they're. They're an amazing thing that are going to just revolutionize the way we take the kids, but into a foundational level, like you're bringing, like up the fact that we'll get to the root of the bullying, before the kid gets to that point where he's going to stab another kid or shoot up the school or whatever the case may be Right. So you have 10 kids and all the way from the ages of 30, all the way down to the ages of a single digits, and you know you're doing something right in a sense, to where the ones that are older are now moving on and moving, you know, and they didn't get into a situation like that, were they going to jail because they no, they weren't.
Speaker 2:They didn't go to jail but Didn't kill anybody, right, right. But my daughter, she ended up getting suspended and they reversed the suspension because she was being bullied by these two girls. Because she was being bullied by these two girls, right, and they were talking about things eighth graders shouldn't talk about as far as sexuality and things like that, and she literally, you know, she didn't want to be a part of the conversation, to stop, and it was like you pressured her into the conversation. What they were trying to say was, since she didn't want to talk about it, she must have done everything that they were talking about, really. And when they went there, she just decked one of the girls and everything.
Speaker 2:And I was okay with her being suspended until she told me why and I was like, so you're gonna suspend her and not address them, having all this talk about sex and if she ever tried, you know, drugs or any of that stuff they were like no, that's superficial. I was like no, they kept on and that's a form of bullying and pressuring her into a conversation or into a what could have been yeah, yeah, exactly what could have led to.
Speaker 1:So it's almost like your daughter kind of took it in her own hands again.
Speaker 2:She was straight A and you know, thankfully it wasn't escalated to anything the level that we're talking about as far as guns and knives. But you look at somebody who's an introvert who literally keeps to herself yeah, my own business, and she only socializes with people who approach her nicely Like. You know what I mean. And so she didn't have a lot of friends in school, specifically because she was picky. If she saw you being mean to one person but nice to her, she couldn't be your friend. And I think children should pick and choose their friends like that, because if you don't, then one of my daughters learned like, oh, your friend will be smiling in your face but then talking behind your back. And then you got to navigate those feelings and feeling betrayed.
Speaker 1:And so, dude, it's getting crazy, man, because it's now. It's the point, like I know there's been a couple of suicides here locally, you know. I mean with children, children 13 and even younger, because they're you know they don't have that mentorship or something's not happening. Right, right, that's our village that we need to frickin build because I want my kids to know, I want my boys to know, or my boys' boys to know, or you know their children to know, that they are somebody that can rely on to the point, especially to the point to where they don't have to get suicidal thoughts like that is just repulsive. You know what I mean to think about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, social pressure should not be that heavy man and how are we allowing our kids to allow their kids, how we are allowing our kids to feel that social pressure is that aggressive, and you know, I mean I guess if we circle back just a little bit, we mentioned about parents, teachers, students.
Speaker 2:As far as that communication, we have a 24 hour day. Eight of those hours is spent in school and then eight to 10 hours is spent sleeping for a kid, and so that time that they're they're awake with us is we, we're observing, we're looking at certain things and cues. That's how we know, like if our kid needs something like I know, we're observing, we're looking at certain things and cues. That's how we know, like if our kid needs something, like I know we're supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, parents out there, they ain't doing none of that, right, they're not watching any of that man and you know how some of those parents get away with.
Speaker 2:It is because they avoid their neighbors, they avoid having a village. That's right. And they do that because they don't care. That's right, you know, because if they did care then they would have those village connections and be okay. If somebody's like, hey, your kid was like this or your kid, you know, even if they noticed your kid was disheveled coming home from school, it was like hey, man ask them yeah, who cares about your stupid day?
Speaker 1:if you had a bad day, that's your kid's day. If your kid had a bad day, that's more important than your dumb day. You know what I mean? Um, all of us have bad days as adults. Right, that's adult. You know, it's a life, be life. And like we've said before, but when it comes to your kids, if they're having a bad day, something you got to talk to them, ask them. And then you were talking about the communication. The teacher spend most of their time with our kids during the day, during the week, right, and so why don't you have a good relationship with your teacher? A lot of times, the teacher is like defensive mode. As soon as you start saying anything about anything, it's immediately they want to get into defensive mode versus the parent adult, the teacher adult coming together to make sure that that child is is is functionally educated properly.
Speaker 2:And the only way to defeat the defensive mode is to actually have a relationship with the teacher. That's right. Build that damn relationship, because then they'll know where it's coming from. That's right. It's like hey, such and such came home, that's right. Even daycare level kid come home with a knot. If you got a relationship with your daycare teacher, she's going to send you a note that's right Saying what happened. That's right. But she's also going to call and tell you what they did. That's right, whether they iced it or call you and say, hey, they might need to go to medical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even know what it would be like to have a bad relationship with my kids, my boys' teachers. I couldn't stand it. I know my boys' teachers very well. You know what I mean and I would expect and I would encourage every parent to do that. But if you're not, if you're not building a relationship with your educators of your children while you're not the one educating them, then you're wrong. And if that educator doesn't want to build a relationship with the parents of their children, they are wrong. Now, I know it's a lot of children for some of these educators, right. But if you can't handle it, get out of the profession.
Speaker 2:And it ain't be in the classroom every day. Yeah, it could be email once a week, that's right. And it could be as simple as saying hey, thank you for teaching my kid, that's right, you know they came home with some interesting stuff. I appreciate you. You know what that teacher's going to do. Man, they're going to remember that and focus on them. Kids.
Speaker 1:Right, they're going to start building that.
Speaker 2:Because I got an attaboy from that parent, that's right man.
Speaker 1:I bet you they probably teachers don't get appreciated enough. They really don't man, on a real level, any educator Now some educators don't deserve to be appreciated and they need to be weeded out and I don't understand how the school system can allow some of them in there. But the ones that do, you know listeners. If you've got a kid and they're going to school and your kid comes back smiling every day, you should throw out a. You know a BZ Bravo Zulu. You know you should throw out a. You know a BZ Bravo Zulu.
Speaker 2:Usually that's a military aspect, but email the teacher and ask the one on birthday, so that way you can send her. That's right.
Speaker 1:Get him yeah, get him something. You know what I mean. Tell him, tell him. Tell him Thank you, that's all they need A card Say look, my, my kid's been coming home and just in a good, we want to appreciate you somehow or another, so show that love. You know what I mean. What that's going to do right, correct me if I'm wrong is if you've got that good vibe at home and you've got that good relationship with your teacher or your kid's teacher, I should say your kid's teacher is going to do their due diligence to make sure that the bullying is nipped in the bud preemptively, all right. And then now that bullying like I don't even like the word bully, it's really just, it's a malnutrition from the bully.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean Mental malnutrition it is.
Speaker 1:It's mental malnutrition from the parents of the bully Allowing it is.
Speaker 2:It's mental malnutrition from the parents of the bully, allowing your kids to be that way. Well, sometimes the parents are the bullies and the kids are just perpetuating that.
Speaker 1:That's right, man. If your kid is a piece of crap, maybe you need to do some self-reflecting.
Speaker 2:Well, some schools are going after the parents. In a sense of it started like even with attendance. You remember where parents started getting prosecuted to weed out the bad parenting in the sense of if you just don't care and you're not even worried about, that's right, it's pure neglect man.
Speaker 1:It's child abuse. It really is, because the kids don't know any better. And if you're not taking care of your kids, you're failing as a human being. Right, you know what I mean. Check yourself.
Speaker 2:You've got to check yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that, and I know in this podcast we can't give all the answers, because one we don't know everything Damn right. But you can recognize when certain things result in negative behaviors. That's right, and we know now that not every parent is great at stopping their kids from bullying. But if everybody as a team addresses it, then we know we can cross out. All right, it's not the parents doing their part, you know the teachers doing their part, and so most of the time you don't commit a crime if you know everybody's watching and you know.
Speaker 2:And so even if you had those student leaders not setting them up I know the word like snitch is what a lot of people come to mind, but saying, hey, we want our school to be filled with good people, just be proactive about it. Yeah, we want good people. Nobody bullies the football captain. He's not going around pushing and and being. You know, having this bravado is that like, everybody wants to be liked by good people, and you know, and that's just be a good person and encourage it exactly encourage it and then promote it.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. There's nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with that matter of fact. I'm teaching um with angel force foundation starting next month. Uh, I'm going to be teaching leadership classes, leadership development classes for children, oh nice. And we're starting on at age seven and then we're breaking it up seven to ten. I think it's like 11 to 11, 12, and 13. And then there's a 14, 15, 16, and a 17 and brand new adult, 18. And we're teaching leadership classes. Where is that going to be? It's going to be at the Diligent building on the second floor, right across from the Crestview High School, and so you can go on Angel Force Foundation and you can actually see what classes are available.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to be teaching leadership classes. What I'm going to do these are strictly for the kids and it's for the children to build that exact what we're talking about and what it's going to do. I think the best part about it is taking a kid's weakness that they're sitting right next to, and utilizing the kid right next to their strength to build the weakness, and vice versa. Right, because what my weakness is, I'm going to lean on you to help me with my weakness, right. And because that's what we do as adults, that's what we would do as a village, right? That's because you have a weak back.
Speaker 2:That's right, yeah, yeah, if I got a weak back, can you help me lift this? That's right, exactly.
Speaker 1:But now do that in a mental, fundamental way, mentally, where it's not just about a physical back pain. It would be more or less like I suck at math, right, I suck at taking care of myself when it comes to I don't have a vocal bone in my body as far as sticking up for myself, but the kid right next to me does Right. Can you help me?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And don't be scared about that. And that's this leadership. Lead from the front Like this educational value is amazing and we're going to break that mold that we're talking about right now. As far as having a straight A, we want to make it to where that straight A student, that wonderful, beautiful asset to society, doesn't fail by the corruption of a jacked up village Right and then now becomes a statistic that just continues to ruin our nation and in the generation to come.
Speaker 2:One of the studies that I looked at. You can Google these studies. But 40 percent of children who get a bully at any age, they have a 40 percent chance of committing a crime. Wow, Then a person in the same demographic, same area would have that did not get bullied. Bullying is one of those things that can really convert a person to the wrong direction and you got to stop that man.
Speaker 2:And support is not just I'm there to listen, you know. It's almost like how much energy you put in to suicide prevention If you know this kid is not going to make it through the day. How much effort are you going to put into that kid to save them? And when you look at suicide, you're looking at them, saving them for themselves. But it could honestly be all the different pressures Sure, let's say, if it was home or and school and they're looking at their future. It's like I don't have any future because I can't even handle this or I can't handle that. And so the support. And if you don't know how to support somebody who's dealing with bullying, then you need to surround yourself with people who can help you. That's right.
Speaker 1:Google a resource. What do I do about a kid bullying Right? What do I do about my kid getting bullied and then?
Speaker 2:start there and then go Facebook. That's right. On a local level you could be like you know I need this and if it's available in your community, facebook will show you like babysitting groups, man.
Speaker 1:Streetlight Angels podcast. Yes, I promise. If you hit me and Eugene up at Streetlight Angels podcast and you got problems with bullying, I promise you we will reply. Not only we'll do it quickly, and we'll also make sure that that issue gets rectified.
Speaker 2:Whether or not we'll get you that all day Admin of the school and say, hey, what are you doing about this situation? I know you can't tell us personal details, but parties involved asked us to ask them questions, man.
Speaker 1:You know, we had a recording not too long ago and there was an individual came on and had a problem with their neighborhood Across the street. They had some squatters literally squatters people actually like crapping in the front yard, type stuff and living in this house that was abandoned abandoned but owned by somebody that didn't even live in the country. And so, you know, we made Streetlight Angels, made some phone calls and got that stuff taken care of. That's awesome. You know what I mean and that's the kind of thing that we would do with. You know, streetlight Angels podcast. And if you had brought up, you know, bring up bowling and you don't know what, you don't know what to do. It's okay, don't know what to do, but I can promise you we'll get you educated up, Right? You?
Speaker 2:know what I mean and we'll learn something on the way too. Yeah, and maybe we'll start building those mentor systems to where this is the person that's going to help guide you through this. Yeah, until we make sure we get the positive results that's needed so that that child doesn't get left behind, because it used to be. No child left behind had to do with education. Now it has to do with their mental stability and saving them from not necessarily just the bullies but the system not being able to address it. You know, because when I was growing up, it's like we had paddlings and so we knew that we couldn't act a fool. We was going to get three licks they ain't calling it bullying then you know it was like giving this person a hard time or messing with them. You're going to get three licks. And if you got three licks, when you got home you had a slip of paper saying what you did, what they did, and then you're getting some more it they did, and then you're getting some more.
Speaker 1:It's like double jeopardy. Yeah, because back. That is double jeopardy mama, don't whoop three licks, you know you might get lucky yeah, if you hold still enough yeah, but uh, three solid ones but it and back then it was that was a little bit more immediate consequence. It was, it was yeah and they're held accountable, right, and now it's difficult because even the relationship between a teacher and a parent isn't even there anymore, right? So how could you even?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't have the trust with the teachers, that's right. They might just spank my kid because they had a bad day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right Now, exactly these days. Well, so that's the thing. Like I wouldn't even allow an individual to to be physical with my children when it comes to this. But I mean I'm going to have enough relationship with them to be able to tell me whether a text message I mean, come on, 21st century y'all, like, don't act. Like you can't get a hold of me and say, you know, hey, your kid is acting like a fool today and here it is I'm not trying to get that kid in trouble, in a sense to where it's so it's not an issue tomorrow or the next day or leads into somebody that either might kill themselves or might stab someone else just because no one did anything about it, Right?
Speaker 1:So that's kind of you know what we're getting back to our whole conversation, and the derivative behind a conversation is on this episode is you have kids right now that are amazing, even if they are not, that they're so young and spongy to the point where they're going to soak up the information that you and the education that you can provide to them. And if you can mentor them and help them grow and nurture them positively, you know we can get away from the ones that go from straight A's to stabbing someone.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:If we give them what they need, they'll give it back, and that's our responsibility as an adult Right. That's our responsibility as humans, as parents, as mentors. But as an adult period, we see the ugly, All right. Let's not let our kids grow in that ugly.
Speaker 2:No, they don't. It stunts their growth, that's right.
Speaker 1:It makes them regress. It's disgusting to know that there's people out there that don't care about that, but if you've got that or you know anybody who has that issue, hit us up on Streetlight Angels podcast at gmailcom. Check us out on Facebook. Please leave comments on social media platforms anywhere.
Speaker 2:We'll make sure we get back to you whether it's a little hard or whether we actually get more into it, and We'll make sure we get back to you whether it's a little hard or whether we actually get more into it, and what that's going to do is trigger more conversation and allow us to shed more light on the issues. Right, all right, yeah, and if anybody leaves a comment, they can get a free ticket to any of my upcoming shows that I do here in Crestview, or actually anyway. I mean, I do shows in Fort Walton Beach as well. But leave a comment, get a free ticket. If it's a couple, make sure that both persons leave a comment you can get a good laugh, have some fun and hear about those 10 kids I have. That's what makes me an expert in a selfish manner.
Speaker 2:One. I grew up when it was okay to be out doing the street lights. That's right, that's what came on, man. And then also, you know, I got from 30 to 3 10 kids. You know that's a lot of experience to to dive into, but we, we have fun. We just want to inform the public and make sure that we, you know that we're in this together and we're just not talking. We're gonna be about it well, yep we will.
Speaker 1:We will walk that walk. We're not just gonna talk that walk. You know, know what I mean. There you go, so give us that opportunity. Thanks for listening to Streetlight Angels Podcast. We love you, we miss you. Y'all be safe, peace.