Teacher suggests renaming streets may help cut crime

Here's a stroke of brilliance from a government school teacher:

FORT PIERCE — A middle school teacher thinks drug dealers and gang members might take their illegal activities elsewhere if the city renames major streets in the black community after tulips, daffodils and birds.Bryce Archer, a physical education teacher at Dan McCarty Middle School on Mississippi Avenue, suggests the city rename several of the numeric and alphabetical streets that dot the black community — such as Avenue D — and give them names. Too many gangs, he said, take pride in naming their groups after numbered streets.

That's it. Re-name the streets. That will solve the 70% out of wedlock birthrate and 50% dropout rate in the black community. Although I would suggest that everyone dropout of this "school" immediately and get a GED. Unsurprisingly, this idiotic idea has other supporters:

Mayor Bob Benton said he would support renaming the streets in the northwest section of the city if enough people from the neighborhood want it...City Commissioner Reggie Sessions, who lives in and represents the northwest district, said he would support changing the names of some of the major corridors, including Avenue D and 13th Street, but he doesn’t believe it’s going to rid the area of crime.

No Kidding. But at least it represents hopenchange.