The girls in the program have always been a lot of deal with. Today we were talking and we came to a hard choice to make.
Two of the girls have the worst attitudes, have crazy mood swings and they cause all the other girls to act up. Today they started fighting like crazy hitting each other with brooms not just playing; serious fighting. One of the leaders had to hold them down. We've tried everything but we haven't seen ANY change over the summer or even before. Suspension is usually the punishment that works but it doesn't work with these girls they just don't care.
Its getting to the point where we can't run program normally. We spend all our time on a couple of the bad kids and neglect the ones that behave and want to learn.
We were given the advice to "let them go." Suspend them for the rest of the year or until they're ready.
This might seem like were giving up but really its out of love.
We can't do anything if they don't want to be helped.
It hurts us cuz we know that if they're not in program they can be in a million other not so good places.
Right now we have them in the program but separated from everyone else. The problem with this is it takes up one leader to take care of them and we are already short staff and getting more youth everyday.
Tomorrow we are going to pray about this and leave it in God's hands because they're ultimately His kids.
Pray for us.
Pray for wisdom.
