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[quote=Anonymous]The behavior issues are not because someone is a new immigrant or refugee. Most of the students in the video are American born. Yes, poverty is a root cause, but also antisocial behaviors. ACPS needs more programs in the early grades and middle schools to get kids in activities, sports, tutoring, mental health and physical health services onsite at school and get support for kids. If their parents are too busy working or not working and engaged in antisocial behaviors, then give the students support at school and in the community.

I'm a white upper middle class kid who grew up in an abusive home. My mother had mental health problems and beat us and resorted to violence and name calling, emotional abuse on a daily basis. I used to pray for my mom to leave or my dad to divorce her. I would stay away from home as much as possible, either going to a friend's house after school, studying at the library, doing after school clubs and sports or activities. My dad grew up in an abusive home and he was religious and codependent. If not for my aunts and uncles, grandparents, and friends' parents as well as teachers who I still keep in contact with, I could be like these kids. If you grow up in an environment where violence is common place and how you learn to address conflict, you are violent. I was an angry kid. I drank too much and had low self esteem. I abused my body through an eating disorder. I was able to get out of it because I wanted to break the cycle and others saw potential in me. It doesn't just affect low income kids. But their poverty makes it harder. They have less of an outlook and less resources.

ACPS and the city need to invest in rec programs, teen hangouts at the rec center, violence disruptors, community members who look like these kids and are from their neighborhood to intervene. We need a real alternative school and a juvenile court that is intervention based. We must do better. It can't just be about our kids. They are our kids if we are a community Alexandria espouses to be. [/quote]

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