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I've seen too many of my people give up on the educational system. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11265284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11265284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/20161201-img_6135-63a3ed9f303cf11c839503060579e5c4df532f78-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Anaya outside of a courtroom at the Family Justice Center in San Jose, before appearing for his final hearing before aging out of the foster care system. \u003ccite>(Brett Myers/Youth Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had hoped to finish college by the time I aged out of foster care, but I'm still in my junior year. I'm committed to getting my bachelor's, despite the odds being terrible. According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, only somewhere \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.fc2success.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/National-Fact-Sheet-on-the-Educational-Outcomes-of-Children-in-Foster-Care-Jan-2014.pdf\">between 2 and 9 percent \u003c/a>of former foster kids complete their college degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>I hope that you hear my words. And I hope that you listen to my signal of distress. I thank you for giving me closure. Thank you. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the judge reads her final orders closing out my case, I promise myself that I'll leave all the rage I feel about the foster care system inside the courtroom. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I'm reviewing my notes and it looks like the first time I got involved in your case was back in 2003,\" Schwarz says. \"You've been in the system a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't have any pictures of my five siblings and me together as babies. Not a single one. Which makes \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday\">Throwback Thursdays (#TBT)\u003c/a> a little challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My biological parents weren't ready to be parents. My father was abusive. Eventually Child Protective Services got involved, and my siblings and I went into the foster care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were separated and shuffled between foster homes, group homes, shelters, and for at least one of my siblings, incarceration. 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Is there any advice you'd give us?\" Schwarz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I clear my throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>To whom it may concern. This is the year that I divorce you, your gray hands can no longer hurt me, your gray hands can never overpower me, your gray hands can never tell me that you love me because it's too late. ... \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I use \"gray hands\" to describe the foster care system, because it never felt warm or human. It's institutional. Opposite the sort of unconditional love I imagine that parents try to show their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Your gray hands just taught me how to survive in a world. We never learned how to love ourselves unconditionally. I've been with multiple foster families, I've been with multiple shelters. How does a person like me not end up with a family. ...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, being a foster kid is supposed to be temporary. When it's stable and appropriate, the preference is to reunite kids with their parents or family members. Adoption is the next best option. I used to dream of it. Having a mom and dad, siblings to play with ... a dog. But when I hit 12, I realized that I was getting old. That adoption probably would never happen for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the system, I constantly had new social workers, lawyers and case managers, which left me vulnerable. It wasn't until I got older that I realized one of the main causes for the turnover was because of low wages and overflowing caseloads. Even my lawyer is currently juggling 130 other clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>At 21 you happily kick us off to the curb and say good luck I wish you well, I wish you the best but don't come back because we can't take you in. 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I'm committed to getting my bachelor's, despite the odds being terrible. According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education, only somewhere \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.fc2success.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/National-Fact-Sheet-on-the-Educational-Outcomes-of-Children-in-Foster-Care-Jan-2014.pdf\">between 2 and 9 percent \u003c/a>of former foster kids complete their college degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>I hope that you hear my words. And I hope that you listen to my signal of distress. I thank you for giving me closure. Thank you. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the judge reads her final orders closing out my case, I promise myself that I'll leave all the rage I feel about the foster care system inside the courtroom. 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Instead of using pepper spray, she says guards could tackle youth to the ground to restrain them. 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Alameda County is one of just three counties in the Bay Area that allow guards to use pepper spray in juvenile hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://cjca.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators\u003c/a>, while staff at Alameda County’s juvenile hall use pepper spray about twice a week, nationally nearly 90 percent of state-run youth jails don’t allow guards to carry it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257616868&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257616868'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Soler, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Children’s Law and Policy\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., has helped set national standards for youth jails that include a strict ban on the use of pepper spray. So far, 300 counties have signed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soler says juvenile facilities in the U.S. that use pepper spray are outliers, far outside the mainstream of juvenile justice practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really give much credence to the argument that kids in some states are so out of control that the staff have to use this kind of chemical restraint,” Soler says. “It’s just not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juvenile justice is designed to practice rehabilitation. But Soler believes that pepper spray does just the opposite, teaching the lesson that “whoever controls the most force is the one who resolves the dispute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the last lesson we want young people to learn,” Soler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LaDonna Harris, the chief probation officer of Alameda County, the use of pepper spray is necessary. “It’s a tool that we use because we have no other good option,” Harris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her department manages juvenile hall. 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