Scuba Program
Re “A Sea Change,” March 19.
Regarding the new scuba program for troubled youths: What a great way to spend $150,000--teaching scuba diving to 60 lucky kids in the San Fernando Valley. Who are the lucky kids? Certainly not anyone who obeys the rules or does well in school. No chance! We only get to reward kids like 16-year-old Danny, expelled from school for peddling alcohol and carrying a knife. [Reporter] Tim May tells us that the “lobster story” hooked Danny. Super!
It is very difficult to instill basic values in our young people when our city rewards the kids who break the rules like this. I am sure that time and money spent teaching discipline, reading, writing and arithmetic may not be as cool, but will help them more in the future than being scuba-certified.
The idea of spending $2,500 to learn how to catch lobster for dinner on each of these kids, who haven’t learned right from wrong, is just too much for me to swallow.
ROBERT E. MAIN
Chatsworth
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