If I Were My Father: Stereotypes Of Scotts Mills

IF I WERE MAYOR..... There is a stereotype that says small towns are lame. That stereotype implies your town has to be big to be great. Scotts Mills is small. Scotts Mills is great. Our town IS small and IS great but it could be better. The amount of tax dollars a town gets is determined by the size of the towns population. Without these tax dollars a town would die; taxes keep Scotts Mills alive. Scotts mills is small so we get less money but imagine if we had more! The most reliable way to get more money is to get more people here. As mayor I will promote the town image by getting kids off the street, cleaning the town, and listening to the people. When the image is promoted people will look at Scott's mills as a nice place to live. When …show more content…
Scotts mills kids are bad. I have heard this over and over again and I wonder why. I wonder why our town has lots of these problems. Then it came to me; The young adults of this town are bored. Proverbs 19:15 - "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer..." The bible. Some of the children and young adults of our community wander around with nothing to do. They are bored and sloth like. These citizens are idle and when they look for something to do their activities are often limited to drugs and alcohol. It's not their fault though. It's not their fault they have nothing to do. These citizens can't provide activities for themselves and they live in a town where their are none provided. I propose we open the gym to anyone as long as there is a chaperone. I will try to get nonprofit young adult organizations to operate in Scotts mills. These organizations include wildlife young life and others. All of these solutions are free and yet extremely helpful. Everyone has potential and if we keep kids off the street and occupied with character cultivating activities their potential expands. Who knows maybe, just maybe, one of the "bad" Scotts Mills kids could grow up to be