Exalt Youth Blog contextualize(d) teaching

The primary reason that more and more of today's young people, and unquestionably those involved in the justice system, don't go to school, is because it has no relevance for them. Justice-system involved youth have myriad obstacles to "educational achievement", including a host of reasons that could, and do, prevent them from going to school, ranging from the trauma of witnessing or experiencing violence, to the need to help take care of family members, to lack of family support for their educational progression due to multiple factors connected to poverty and the effects of mass incarceration on their communities.