How these programs of education are, helping these teens to turn their own lives around, giving them hope for their own futures, keeping them off the wrong paths in life. From the Newspapers, translated…
The Department of Education had provided schools, and other private academies over billions of dollars per year, to set up the halfway schools or campuses, to help a lot of teenage dropouts turn their lives around, there was a “Prince of Ketamine” who’d become, the “Prince of Piano”; there were middle school dropouts from families who owed debts who’d lived in the boarding halfway schools, and learned a life skill, and after he entered into the technical high schools, he’d made up his mind, on becoming a head chef.
“Feng” was originally a youth who abused ketamine, he was enticed by his friends, start4ed using ketamine, and was arrested.
After he entered into the halfway campuses, he’d once heard his instructor played Richard Clayderman’s “Wedding in My Dreams”, and he’d loved it so, and told his instructor that he wanted to learn the piano.
Having the knacks for music, in just one short year’s time, he’d learned to play the piano, the guitar, as well as the violin too, and on the graduation ceremonies, he was, the star, played the solo of “Wedding in My Dreams” on the piano, he looked, handsome as ever, totally far off, from the way he looked when he was, addicted to the illegal substances.
Another case, “Happy”, his story was even sadder, he’d had the trials of his parent divorcing, his grandparents and his father die, along with the courts repossessing the home he lived in, and selling it off, he was traumatized, in the mind.
When he was most desperate, he’d often lost his temper and gotten angered, used his words, to bully his fellow classmates, or to talk back to his teachers, and, as he became truant, he’d wandered around with his bad friends, went to stay at the net cafés. Later on, after his father died, he was placed by the Changwha Social Services Department to the Sunflower Campus to study, and he’d found his own strengths through faith, and found a new lease on life.
Another youth, of the Pai-Wan Tribes, Fang, dealt with his birth father dying, his stepfather leaving, his mother carrying all the debts, and dropped out of school.
In the last year of his middle school year, he’d transferred into the boarding “success classes” to learn a skill, and he was, able to, turn his own life around since. Later on, he entered into the Taidong Occupational College’s home ec department of the high school level, in the daytime, he’d followed his uncle in welding, and at night, he’d learned to cook, he dreamed of becoming, a head chef one day in the future.
So, for these youths, the help that they’d needed came, at the right time, and this still just shows, that children ARE not bad, it’s the environment they were raised it, that’s made them bad, and, if someone was there, when these young people are in need, to give them a lift, a helping hand, they can become, very successful in whatever they choose to do, as these two cases had shown us.