The other responded with the title of his/hers.

"It takes a Family, Hillary!"
"Village, Rick"
"Family!"
"Village!!"

Jokes about Santorum aside, the real joke is that only a family has impact on youth.

The PA League of Young Voters and the Community Empowerment Association hosted an event on May 4th discussing the achievement gap between white and black students.

The panel of educators, administrators, parents, and youth all decided that "the community must take on the responsibility to ensure students reach academic success."

Meaning, it does indeed take a village... at least in Santorum's state it does.

“If we’re going to talk about how we fix education in Pittsburgh, it’s going to be fixed by community involvement,” Rev. Johnnie Monroe said. “This is the only city I’ve seen where the community isn’t involved in forcing the administration and school board to make changes.” ...

“The data shows if you can get a young person at a young age, they’re less likely to drop out and less likely to flunk,” school board candidate Sharene Shealey said. . .

“I don’t think it’s a money issue for us,” Faison Primary School principal Leah-Rae Bivins said. “A lot of our teachers don’t really understand the aggression so they isolate students.”

A similar but arguably more serious problem reigns a few states away where a record 36 children in Chicago have been killed since January. By comparison in a city three times larger, Los Angeles, only 26 children have been killed this year.

In the recent piece on CNN, the Mayor of Chicago was caught on camera saying that these students in other cities are known as drop-outs and thus don't county, but in Chicago they're still students if they're under 18. The problem is that none of these students were drop-outs. One student was working to transfer schools after some bullying, but none were drop outs.

Hearing the stories of police, ministers, and parents of lost children in the story everyone has someone to blame. Some blame guns, some blame the lack of adequate police on the streets, some blame gangs, some blame the lack of parents... Few blame everyone in the whole community and few are talking about the cohesive work that can be done the way that the PA League of Young Voters are doing.