The experiences there are awful, scaring kids into not wanting to go to prison can work but it doesn’t go deeper into the route problems.
Why are the children misbehaving? Why are they joining gangs or questioning authority (which I’m all for questioning authority as an early teen)? Perhaps the children feel like they need to prove themselves to their community, they need to be included someway or they feel insecure about their pride and self esteem
But taking them to prison does not target those insecurities, all it does is either scare them into complete authority which will for sure cause suffering, or they grow resentful.
In the episodes I watched back when the show was on air all they did was discipline the kids, there were rarely any meaningful messages other than “you gotta do better”, the police and jail mates should’ve had conversations with the children 1 on 1 about their personal lives.
Why are the children misbehaving? Why are they joining gangs or questioning authority (which I’m all for questioning authority as an early teen)? Perhaps the children feel like they need to prove themselves to their community, they need to be included someway or they feel insecure about their pride and self esteem
But taking them to prison does not target those insecurities, all it does is either scare them into complete authority which will for sure cause suffering, or they grow resentful.
In the episodes I watched back when the show was on air all they did was discipline the kids, there were rarely any meaningful messages other than “you gotta do better”, the police and jail mates should’ve had conversations with the children 1 on 1 about their personal lives.
