ROSELAND
MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR OF DANGER ALERT!
As a youth, during three reform school commitments, two abbreviated stays at boys’ ranches, and multitudinous trips to juvenile homes and jails, I saw just about everything the juvenile system had to offer.
As an adult, I would like to see a program instituted that draws from my experiences in the juvenile system: eliminating the negatives, utilizing the positives, and combining these positives with the theories tendered in the first two chapters of Danger Alert! concerning fluid intelligence.
Our heart-felt goal calls for us to someday found and support a home, with a school of its own, for troubled yet gifted children. In addition, this home is to sit on a sizeable tract of land in a yet-to-be-determined rural area with the land doubling—as a subordinate project for the children to participate in—as a forest and wildlife preserve. This haven for children and Mother Nature shall be called Roseland.
Utilizing Roseland as a forest and wildlife preserve will serve three primary considerations:
First, there is already a great need in today’s world for conservation.
Second, this need will only increase as time passes. Training these kids to deal with this need will make them more useful to the world they will inherit as adults.
Third, and of the utmost importance to the fundamental cause of helping these kids get their lives turned around, this will also give them something significant and outside of themselves to focus their attention on, providing them with a worthy cause to call their own.