Dads on Duty
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Security guards and local police were at a loss about how to deal with the gang violence that was rampant in a Shreveport school, where detention and even arrests weren't enough to curb the violence. So a group of dads stepped up, committing to being present at the school every day. Now there hasn't been a fight in over a month, andow kids say they love going to school.
They call themselves "Dads on Duty," replete with sweatpants, gas station coffee, and dad jokes worth rolling your eyes at. They fist bump students in hallways, providing a fathering gauntlet that is deterring fights and decreasing gang activity. "Not everybody has a father figure at home – or a male, period, in their life," one of the dads told CBS News.
Clearly, this crisis in Shreveport required more than good intentions. It required fathers, because God created dads to do just this kind of thing. I love how these dads took stock of the cultural moment and acted on four simple questions: What good can we celebrate, what is missing that we can offer, what is broken that we can fix, and what evil needs to be opposed?
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| 0:00.0 | How do you stop fighting at school? Send in the dads. For the Coltson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point. |
| 0:05.6 | Security guards and local police were at Witt's End in a Shreveport school last month. Gang violence in the hallways had resulted in arrest. |
| 0:12.6 | Detention wasn't working. So a group of dads stepped up. They're at the school every day now, and there hasn't been a fight in over a month. |
| 0:20.2 | In fact, kids love going to school. |
| 0:22.3 | They call themselves Dad's on duty, replete with sweatpants, gas station coffee, and dad jokes |
| 0:27.3 | that you might roll your eyes at. |
| 0:28.9 | They fist bump the students in the hallways. |
| 0:31.1 | They provide a fathering gauntlet that's deterring fights and decreasing gang activity. |
| 0:36.7 | Not everyone has a father figure at home, said one of |
| 0:39.2 | the dads to CBS News, or a male in their life, period. Clearly, the crisis in Shreveport required |
| 0:45.2 | more than just good intentions. It required fathers, because God created dads to do this kind of |
| 0:50.6 | thing. I love how these dads took stock of their cultural moment and answered |
| 0:54.9 | the questions, what good can we celebrate, what's missing that we can offer, what's broken |
| 0:58.8 | we can fix, and what's evil that we can oppose. I'm John Stone Street with The Point. |
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