LETTER | When we stop robbing the young of their time and space to grow up, many social ills can be eradicated.
The knee-jerk response by the authorities is that this problem again is because of a lack of parental guidance.
We lost our many rivers and ponds that would have made water sports and humble fishing healthy outlets for the energetic young.We have burdened students with heavy bags of books and learning subjects with token time slots for sporting, creative arts and physical education.The tarred streets outside their homes become the only playground.
In a nutshell, our political-economic engineering these past several decades is the root cause of theAnd this is not going to make our nation a great place on the map of developed nation status, believe me. They can if political power-grabbing, rent-seeking, and wealth hoarding are bled out of the socioeconomic system of this nation.
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