...who help themselves. Stay in school, study, stay away from drugs, stay away from people who deal drugs, avoid hanging out with criminals, don't always look for the easy way out, and you might change your fate.

I love #3 - if they're not college or career ready, how are they graduating high school? That's a de facto admission that we've dumbed down the curriculum, and are simply letting the conveyor belt carry them out the door.

BTW, there's no money to blow on any of those crappola, feel-good suggestions.