Comments on: These D.C. Summer Jobs Are Smokin’ (Marijuana)

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:27:19 +0000

He called the cops because some teenagers were getting high? What an absolute dick. He wasn't affected in the least yet he decided to try and ruin their lives. I hope this busybody's house got robbed while the cops were wasting time looking for stoners.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:50:26 +0000

Lets help our childrena and not hurt them so much become part of the solution and not the problem. Each one teach on. We fly in planes, buses and trains all driven by professional who sometime get busted for being on drugs. But we dont know this until they are caught. We as adults did not have to deal with the things these children are growing up to deal with today. I am from NYC and it is really frightening to see how America does not care about the future and invest in their children. It takes a village to save lets all start saving and stop judging.

By: Angry Al Gonzales

Angry Al Gonzales — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:39:39 +0000

Crybaby "Teary" Jerohn - DC summer jobs are more like legalized extortion than anything - give these kids jobs or they'll be out mugging white people. So we give them jobs & they still go out & mug white people. Of course they kill & rob each other far, far more often than they bother white people.

Crybaby Jerohn - believe it or not, in the real world people work in the hot sun, without shade, with water breaks only every two hours. I did it for six years until I graduated from college. Most white people have done it as well.

Go home to mommy, Jerohn. Waaaaa. Waaaaa. Waaaaa.

By: Different Planet

Different Planet — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:57:05 +0000

"Where are the children from upper northwest and the white children employed, it sure isn’t in this job."
Sure it is. I've seen the "the children from upper northwest and the white children employed" picking up trash and cutting weeds in the hot sun.
Granted some, of course, went out and found jobs in the private sector on their own. Perhaps they figured that any job picking up trash and cutting weeds that someone would GIVE them wasn't as much to their tastes as one they went out and GOT A JOB ON THEIR OWN.
Hell, I worked fast food and landscaping as a teen- year round. No one GAVE me a job. I had to EARN it. Is that not good enough for kids today?

By: Jerohn Teary

Jerohn Teary — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:17:33 +0000

The Mayor's Conservation Corps is "legalized slavery"! I have noticed that only the poor children of color are in this program. Where are the children from upper northwest and the white children employed, it sure isn't in this job.

You pay these kids 6.55 per hour to perform a job that DC government employes make 3 times that amount to do and do it much worse and that can be witnessed by the amount of trash that these children are expected to pick up.

It was about 100 degree in the sun today and they had these kids walking almost two miles in some cases picking up trash along the suiteland parkway/DC line; no water, no shade, and no rest. It was criminal.

So, while Marion Barry is so busy trying to get his girlfriend to shut the hell up, he needs to examine the disproportionate number of Ward 8 youth who are in this group of kids who total about 4-5 thousand in total. Yes thre are about 5,000 youth in the Mayor's Conservation Corps and about 800 in Green Summer. This is crazy.

Where is the job readiness and lessons on conservation. Now you have the DC elite who think that all of these black children are there to clean up the trash in their neighborhoods; like slaves.

By: suavae

suavae — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:59:45 +0000

pass it and stop lookin the other day i need to hit befor my grand mother comes

By: cartoon_capers

cartoon_capers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:19:19 +0000

looks like not only is the summer jobs program SHORT of money, but the city will also be short some $180,000,000 due to technical error in the processing of medical claims. Looks like they WON'T BE GETTING the federal money for these claims. Maybe pissing people off ISN'T a long term success policy. Or maybe the WRONG people should NOT be pissed off. What else will happen next? Hmmm.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:23:38 +0000

Call me crazy, but this probably the most authentic environmentalist experience they'll get all summer. Every "conservationist" friend I have smokes copious amounts weed.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:08:58 +0000

OH NO! They are smoking REEFERS! During summer?! YE GODS! call the police! Call the FBI! CALL THE MARINES!

give me a damn break...the asshat who took this picture is the exact kind of moralizing turd thats making DC into a damn muncipal big box store...wish i'd have seen em, i'd hit them w/ the tried & true PUFF PUFF PASS, kids

By: cartoon_capers

cartoon_capers — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:57:00 +0000

Much better to have them smoking weed, than to have them out working at jobs the employment agency got for the kids. Lets recap: They fired the ONLY employment agency hired to get jobs, AND they fired the Community Based Organizations (CBO's) who were doing the job training - enrichment activities who had been doing summer programs for years AND, they also fired the kids who actually had jobs and told them to go home and they would still get paid! What do you expect? Whose stupid enough to hire Walsh to run the DC summer jobs program?! Promote someone from DC and within DOES whose paid their dues and knows the businesses to the top spot. oops! they've all been fired already or left. Can't wait to see what the feds have to say about the agency's performance numbers that have been slipping into darkness. Maybe the program should be taken over by the feds!?

By: Keith Jarrell

Keith Jarrell — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:33:51 +0000

Here we go again. Fenty's Summer Youth Job Program is off to another great start.
How does the city chose the kids involved in this program any way?
Couldn't there be mandatory drug test required before anyone is involved in the program? How many millions could that cost us?
Last summer there was $19 million in cost over runs much of which went to people not even qualified to be in the program. People were over paid, some even lived in Maryland.

Whos on first, what's on second!!

By: candycane1

candycane1 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:46:30 +0000

Quite frankly, I find that this program is outrageous. It's called the Mayor's Conservation Corp but it shoudl be called the "mayors youth trash corp" I have seen groups of these kids all around town and they look so bored and unhappy and in no way ar ethey learning anything about conservation. They are primarily being used to pick up trash. That's all. Real conservation is much more involved. No thought was given to this program, just group them and give them sticks to pick up the trash. The only plan here was to keep them off the streets, give them a blue shirt to be identified and watch the whole group run to 7/11 or McDonalds at the first chance, which is where you see a group every day all day. The supervisors are just teens themselves with light blue shirts and they are just as pissed off for the meaningless work experience they are receiving. Children are still not first. They are always last and always used. They look like they are on a chain gang. It's insulting. They should be somewhere like the arboretum really exploring conservation, planning projects that address "green" issues and placed in work sites that provide hands on experiences related to such. They should be with architects that are building green environments, They should be with WASA to explore clean water issues, the department of planning to learn about the clean air act in this city and the proposed bike rails. That's conservation and that's learning. What a bunch of assholes to think that this crap appeals to children.

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:44:55 +0000

They could have at least taken their shirts off! But really, aren't they supposed to have adult supervision?

By: Whoa

Whoa — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:47 +0000

The Weed and Seed program in full effect. Smoke weed, plant some seeds!

By: PF

PF — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:22:25 +0000

I know none of the sanctimonious blow-hards (pardon the expression) expressing outrage over this photo are themselves upstanding citizens who have never broken a law or goofed off on a summer job, or read City Paper while at work. It is sickening to bear any moralizing coming from Americans as their government murders, tortures, and rapes its way across the globe, but even worse to read this nonsense directed at powerless kids. You want to do something useful? Work on stopping the murderous wars. Then we'll talk morality.