Are gym memberships and sports the answer for troubled teens?

[AB Asks]

One approach to the problem of teenagers who have got into trouble is to give them free gym memberships. The 'Positive Futures' scheme also looks to use sport and leisure activities to turn kids away from crime and drugs. Is this the best way to get kids on the straight and narrow? Or is destined to fail like so many others over the years?

[Reverandfunk]

The answer is parents making them get up off their lardy ar5e5 and making PE compulsory in schools

[Lonnie]

Well said Rev,
I'd go further, A teenager persistantly gets into trouble, punish the parents.

[daffy654]

I think some teenagers would rather hang around causing trouble anyway,nothing anyone does will make them change their ways.Locking them up could be an idea though

[fagidill]

How About Punishing Their Parent's ! They Moulded Them Into What They Are. Every Responsable Parent Ought To Know Where Their Children Are At All Times. Left To Me , I Would Fine Their Parent's. They Cost Us Decent Law Abiding People An Absolute Fortune. Ever Stoped To Wonder What Rate Of Income Tax We Would Be Paying If It Were'nt For Keeping " Riff Raff " & " Pikies "

[kwicky]

I suppose it may help them to evade capture when they outsprint their pursuers after a crime..

[cambus]

Capital idea fagidill.

[Kim A]

Just give them a damned good smack and put them under the stairs with the spiders for a few hours. That should do it.

[Whoever]

Free gym memberships to thugs out of my Council Tax?
No thanks. I pay too much already. Send the offending kids and their parents to an Army run Boot Camp and don't release any of them until they show they can all behave like responsible citizens.