@n0mesorah Please stop with the condescending tones, it doesn’t get anywhere. Kids at risk happen in every community, and yes, many of them start as young as ten. However, when a ten year old starts to experience these issues, the problem is more often than not addressed and arrested. However, in some communities, a ten year old with a problem has a very limited set of schools they can attend. And most of those are remedial schools, where the talmidim as seen as “problem children”. If a community normalizes schools with less intense curriculums in middle school and high school, along with pushing encouraging skills such as art and music, perhaps these children will not feel like such failures and start acting out.
If you say that if the failure for Lakewood Mesivtas to follow the derech ha’Yosher is because there is a “general lack of interest”, then that is a seething indictment of the klal.