April Fool's Day, Part I

4/1/2015, 1st Period

Overhearing some casual conversations between students today, I felt helpless.  They talk about crime as if it’s a life goal.  They are literally inspired by the criminal activities of their peers.  They don’t brag about the graduates they know, or about the friends they have who’ve gone off to college.  They brag about who can “throw them hands” the best.  Who got “bammed up” by the police the other day.  How they didn’t panic when they saw an elderly person being robbed, but didn’t get involved either.  The only positive thing they brood over is if a friend of theirs manages to get a job.  “Yeah man, he/she gettin’ that paper now…”