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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the problem, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the kids may be immigrants.  It's that we normally segregate young teens from older teens/young adults for a reason.  If you have a 14-year-old sitting next to a 21-year-old in class, you're making it that much more "normal" for them to socialize.  You wouldn't normally have 14-year-olds socializing with 21-year-olds, which includes dating and flirting, and you shouldn't, because it's not good for the 14-year-old.  They're at very different places emotionally and physically.  Often when young teens have sex, they're having it with older people, not kids their own age.  14-year-olds are not really in a position to consent, but they're not necessarily seeing a kid who is in their class as "inappropriate" or "adult", even though that kid is an adult in every way.

The same thing can happen when teens are in a work environment with 20-somethings and older.  You get used to hanging out with the older guys and you kind of forget that they are in a totally different place from you in life.  I was 16 and working retail with 25-year-olds, and that led to me hanging out with them after hours, and flirting.  i look back now and am grateful they didn't take advantage, because they could have.[/quote]

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