Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Caraway hosting Teen Summit

John McClelland, says:

Will teens who wear baggy pants be allowed to attend? ;-)

Pavel Lishin, says:

I don't really know what a Teen Summit is.

Scott Doyle, says:

Seems to simply be a gathering of teens. But I thought summit had the connotation of top officials meeting...perhaps they're going to get the teen president in the same room as the young-adult president, middle-aged president, and elderly president?

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

When I was a teen, a 'summit' was code word for a bring-your-own-futon co-ed sleep-over. Of course I never inhaled.

Scott Miller, says:

When I was a teen, there would be no way in hell I would have spent a Saturday doing that. They should do it on a school day. They might get a turnout if they made it an excused absence.

Of course, what do I know about kids these days- except the way they wear their pants.

Michael Davis, says:

Well, all of the summits have been near capacity and this is the sixth. Several of the teens have turned their lives around, become more focused in school and made the honor roll.

Just so you know.

Scott Doyle, says:

What's the capacity of the room? 5 people in a janitor's closet isn't saying much.

Not that I'm doubting the effectiveness of this shindig, I'm just skeptical that a significant number of teens attend at free will.

Pavel Lishin, says:

I'd like to ask more questions, but I became significantly less interested in the things teens do as soon as I stopped being able to legally have sex with most of them.

Oddly enough, the older I get, the more interested I'll become, especially in regard to my lawn and them being on it.

Scott Doyle, says:

Pavel, you have to own a lawn before someone can be trespassing on it. Unless, of course, you're talking about the square yards around your tattered blankets in trinity park this time next year...presuming Larry James doesn't get to you before the teens do.

Michael Davis, says:

City Council chambers has an audience capacity of about 200 people. Just goes to show that some people that have a lot of complaints and negative comments about City Hall have never been there.

Today Dwaine Caraway is hosting a lunch for the 18-23 year-old division of the Dallas Urban League. If you actually listened or watched a meeting you would know that Dwaine is constantly encouraging kids to learn the process at City Hall to be effective citizens instead of people that know little about it.

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

Hey, lighten up here. Any outreach to teens is a good thing. That's why I've volunteered as an outreach speaker to at-risk teens through Youth Conflict Resolution Center.... understandably weighted to low income Hispanic and African-American kids... for a decade.

And no, to littlekindinder's 'point', I HAVE no teens (and PS...am neither black nor brown...) but I've rescued quite a few...from HIV/ Aids, myths about pregnancy (there are many and many are ethnic cultural) gangs, tattoos. Drugs. Jail. The works. So I, as a bonafide snark, say consider; that looking at some of what's passing for 'parenting' out there, maybe just maybe I've done more for some of your troubled teens (of which I was once one) than those who merely provided them a womb. And damn sure more than a lot of Dallas' absentee sperm donners.

Michael Davis, says:

Rawlins, glad to have you as a member of our council district. I look forward to meeting you when we have our Dist 4 neighborhood meetings after the 1st of the year.

Scott Doyle, says:

Mike D. seems to be taking this more personally than he should.

No doubt Dwaine cares about the kids and is active in helping them - we simply didn't think teens made it a priority to go to this kinda stuff...and were wondering why it's called a summit. More power to 'em.

Michael Davis, says:

I'm as snarky as the next gent. I guess it's just when you see the state of these kids it touched a nerve with me. Take a ride through the Cliff or the Grove, you'll see what I mean.

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

Hey, Teresa, if we say something nice about teens, don't we risk being registered us as sex offenders?

Pavel Lishin, says:

The ones that are 17 and 18, of course.

Scott Doyle, says:

Don't forget 19!

Pavel Lishin, says:

Unless I can legally have sex with her, don't worry, I don't care anyway.

And if I can... bring her to the party!

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