There is one such public school in the bronx, PS 140, which has both boys and girls, but keeps the classrooms single sex.
I am not going to defend gang behavior, it really is indefensible, but I will say that it is important to understand the nature and way in which a gang comes into existence and maintains popularity. Call me liberal, but gangs really only gain power when more traditional methods of succeed (like acquiring a job and being able to provide for your family, having access to basic resources like a decent education and a decent library) are closed off. Housing projects become havens for gang activity because there is not much else available to many of the people in the housing projects. The issue is larger than the formation of the gang, it is an infection within the welfare system, which is not really designed to be a stepping stone for people in need. Instead it creates dependency, leaving the youth growing up in a cycle of welfare, soon believing that there is no more they are able to achieve than glory in a gang or a welfare check.
Hereorthere, you also said,
“The liberals also destroyed families withn their policies of telling families that they had to break up to get welfare money.”
What is an example of a policy that dictates the family must break up so that the government has more money for welfare? Also do you use feminism and liberalism interchangeably? Liberal tends to be a rather loaded word, similar to feminism, which really has numerous meanings depending on exactly what type of liberal you are actually talking about.