I always remember it when I speak or hear about neighborhoods, marginalization, hopeless drug addicts or those who die. I remember it every time I see how money is haggled over to do or not do in the neighborhoods. It comes to my mind every time ...
I always remember it when I speak or hear about neighborhoods, marginalization, hopeless drug addicts or those who die. I remember it every time I see how money is haggled over to do or not do in the neighborhoods. It comes to my mind every time that, as a solution to broken trash cans, burned containers, destroyed booths, the only solution seen is more police presence. Jorge Cabrera, from Titerroy, from Carlos III street, from Benito Méndez school, from San José, today an air traffic controller in Gran Canaria, told me many years ago: "I escaped drugs thanks to "San José", otherwise, like many childhood friends, I would be dead or hooked". I'm not saying it. Jorge said it, who lived to see how his friends, neighbors of his street and surroundings, were taken to prison for "bad vibes" related to drugs. Who saw his neighbor Mary Cruz, from Santa María street, on the corner next to his childhood and youth home, suffer because of her children who lived in drugs. Jorge said it, and we all know it's true.
It is true that in the neighborhoods it is easy to fall into drugs. Jorge, and you all know that, if you don't dare to leave the key to the balls to Menganito, tomorrow he may break the door to take them and sell them to buy drugs.
Jorge said it, and it is true, that if in school we only teach children to read, write, the numbers to then add them, subtract them, multiply them and other more complicated operations, which they will surely do very well, tomorrow they will only know that, and they will not know what Life is. They will not know what to do with their lives.
In school, the teacher could let the children and young people be the ones to set the rules, the rules of coexistence. Let the students be the ones to make the programming. I have done it. It's not that difficult. It's just about showing them that you trust them. If you trust them, they themselves, the little bosses, will straighten out, face to face, the lazy ones, the disorderly ones, those who create problems for their school, their course, their classmates. I have done it, and it has worked. Ask Alberto Acosta. Call him at "La Destiladera", from Radio Lanzarote and let him tell you if it's true or not. He was my student and will remember how we did it.
Mengano has all the keys to the teaching center where he works today. If I had not trusted him, without hesitation, blindly, when he was 14 years old and was one of the most feared thugs in Titerroy, and had not entrusted him with the important task of going to look for the medicine cabinet in the ball room, which was under the Sanjurjo staircase, maybe today, like Fulano, Zutano and the brother, who lived on his same street and the one in front, would be dead, due to the effect of drugs. It's not a lie. It is the pure truth. Those from Titerroy who are between 45 and 50 years old today know it. Ask them.
For today, I'll leave it here, so as not to fill your head with more things and you get distracted. If you understand this, assimilate it and dare to put it into practice, rest assured, things will change. Little by little, but they will change. Word. If not, ask Jorge, ask Alberto.
