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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]

You are completely clueless.

I grew up poor and went to a high school that was a mix of poor and wealthy.  I also knew one kid that had failed out multiple times, so much that he was the only high school freshman with a full beard, no lie.  He lived down the street from me. You are right he did not go to school all the time, just enough to sell drugs, and guess who his number one customers were?  The wealthy kids, they thought he was cool.  You would see them driving their nice cars down our street to buy drugs from him.  Those nice cars and preppy kids, stood out like a sore thumb in that neighborhood.

Being a shy,nerdy girl I was very scared of him, and he was always nice to me but he did try to hit on me when I was 13 or 14.  My parents both worked, and I would get home and lock myself and my brother in the house.  A couple of times, he knocked on our door, but I never answered.  He eventually went to jail, for raping a minor, actually he was charged with multiple offenses but he was only found guilty of one.  My daughter does not have that kind of life, she has a nice sheltered Chevy Chase life, but don't pretend that these kids are all safe and try to split hairs whether its a 16-18 year old gang member or 18-22 is more dangerous.

Unless you have lived that life or are currently living that life you have NO clue.  It is absolutely not appropriate to have 13 year old girls (who are not streetwise) in the same school with these thugs.  It's ridiculous to bring Syrians into an argument that concerns gang members from central america.

I would guess the first question out of this community would be where are his parents?  They were drunks, they didn't care, I believe they were also selling drugs.  Stick your heads in the sand but the kids in the poor neighborhoods are the ones who have to deal with this, not you.[/quote]

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