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BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

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20. The successful student, certificate in hand, heads for the suburbs.<br />

He graduates, not only from his educational system, but from his urban subculture<br />

and his neighborhood as well. But when the young adult with an<br />

inner city background fails, he has indeed little to turn to. Far from<br />

it being an advantage, having no roots in either family or community is,<br />

according to social psychologists, the most common cause of crime, vandalism<br />

and prostitution.<br />

21. In the post-war decades this dual pattern of out-migration by the<br />

successful young, while the failing young remain behind without real roots,<br />

has seriously injured the stability of older urban neighborhoods and it<br />

has also impaired the capacity of suburban areas to develop local identity.<br />

The other neighborhoods are drained of young leadership; and the successful<br />

young, once they have graduated to the suburbs, find themselves in environments<br />

without social, historic or sub-cultural roots.<br />

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