http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecospring/viseco-students VisEco Students en http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecospring/shimazu-re-two-teens-arrested-for-alleged-threats <p class="MsoNormal">Re: <span class="story-header">Two teens arrested for alleged threats</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The growing violence in our schools indicates that as a nation, we are failing to teach our children peaceful means to create change. <span class="story-header">The recent arrest of two teenage boys from Lynnwood, age 13, for alleged threats only highlights this paradigm of detachment. Our steps to create community and encourage cooperation thus far have been misguided.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When we spend $43 million to expand roads, as proposed in Marysville, it encourages isolation by stripping funds from projects to build sustainable communities, such as gardens, parks, and civic services. Furthermore, the growth of new housing spreading throughout King County keeps citizens segregated by catering to a certain income bracket. Not everyone in Lynnwood has $400 thousand to spend. While the most convenient land is bought up, the unfortunate are pushed to city fringes. How does society benefit when the poor are invisible and the public sphere no longer embodies the common good? Will the future hold a society of frigid individuals, of competition and isolation, and what can be done to prevent this?</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecospring/shimazu-re-two-teens-arrested-for-alleged-threats">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecospring/shimazu-re-two-teens-arrested-for-alleged-threats#comment Week 4 - Gaviotas Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:10 -0700 shijon31 574 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecospring