What's In A Handshake On The First Day Of School? A Lot, Says Senator Kurt Vialet

ST. CROIX -- A local initiative that started in 2015 by Senator Kurt Vialet -- male students being greeted by successful male figures in the community on the first day of school -- has been received extremely well. But not all see the effort as effective, with some contending that much more than a handshake is needed to correct the course of so many of the territory's youth, while others accuse the senator and others who signup to participate as only playing politics. Both legitimate concerns, so we asked Mr. Vialet -- who, along with other professionals, was stationed as the St. Croix Educational Complex on Tuesday morning greeting both male and female students, while others were at the St. Croix Central High School doing the same -- why his office had acted on the idea. "I think this is very important. So many of our male students, all they continuously see is that negative role model, and education is the pathway with opportunities for everybody to be able to equalize what is g...