Montgomery Co. DA’s Office Kicks Off i-Lead Initiative
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is partnering with the county school system to help keep kids in school and cut down on crime. Teams of prosecutors with the DA’s office along with Montgomery Police officers are visiting schools to teach a new program called the i-Lead Initiative. Students are learning about bullying, conflict-resolution, leadership, the law and what it means to have an education… But district attorney Darryl Bailey says the biggest hope is that the class will teach students to steer away from living a life of crime. The message they’re sending out? If you stay in school, you’re less likely to end up in prison. “Because if we don’t invest in these kids today, we’re going to lose them tomorrow. We are about to lose a whole generation of kids because there’s not enough people investing in these kids and teaching them that there’s a better way; That an education is key, that getting a good job is key, that staying out of trouble is key,” Said Bailey. The teams are teaching at Martin Luther King, Brewbaker, and E.D. Nixon Elementary Schools. The reason those schools were chosen first was because they needed the most help.
