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But the point of all this is, you are bringing in various poor immigrants with little to no upbringing. Ones that have grown up with violence all around them.  They find comfort/family in Central American gangs just like members of ISIS make new recruits feel welcome and they have a "family."  Gangs have been on the decline in MCPS but in the last year, they are recruiting new refugees as members and are climbing in numbers.  That is concerning me.  I am not against helping people but how many do we take and just plop into society and schools and hope they can find their way and assimilate.  The freshman arrested for murder was actually 17yrs old.  If he didn't murder someone and actually graduated on time, he would be a 21/22yr old senior.  [b]My daughter will be 13 when she enters as a freshman.  Having grown men with gang affiliations in high schools should not be happening. [/b] [/quote]

That's what it always boils down to, somehow. We can't have this because people's 13-year-old daughters will be in the same school building as 21-year-old men! This is not a rational argument, it's a fear-based one.[/quote]

So you are okay with your kids going to high school with 18-22yr old men in gangs?[/quote]

I don't suppose that 18-22-year-old men in gangs are dedicated attenders of regular high schools. It also seems unlikely that they'll be in very many of my kids' college prep high school classes. They might be enrolled at the same high school, but I don't understand the problem with this? Are you worried about, for example, gang shoot-outs in the hallways? And if so, would the gang shoot-outs in the hallways be worse if the gang members were 18-22 than 16-18?[/quote]

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