When will we realize that Baltimore only can move forward when we support our schools and communities ("Langston Hughes community to fight school closure before a judge," May 17)?
I was one of many who walked the walk the Langston Hughes Elementary neighborhood children will face through streets of boarded up, rundown houses, overgrown yards and trash to call for saving their school.
For Baltimore to move forward, a foundation of stable communities with neighborhood schools and recreations centers where students know they will have a summer job waiting for them must be built.
That foundation must include music, the visual arts, libraries, physical education and weekly after-school programs for every child as well as summer school programs as long as needed.
It must have community gardens where food comes from the earth, tended by citizens. My father, like many during and directly after World War II, grew a "victory garden "
This is a positive plan that will generate jobs that people will embrace for themselves and their children.
Theresa Reuter, Baltimore