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Analysis Of Crackdown On Kids By Annette Fuentes
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Is America being too hard on kids? Annette Fuentes who wrote “Crackdown on Kids” explains why she may believe the media is turning opinions towards kids bad. Although the crime they are committing is wrong, the media isn’t really looking at that but what the public thinks. Fuentes conveys her argument through emotional, logical, and ethical points from this article. Many of these points are coming from different outlooks from parents, schools and society.
When the boys from Arkansas went to their school and killed the students and teachers, people were outraged. These are two boys who are 11 and 13. One who “sobbed in court next to his mother” and the other “who learned to sling a shot gun from his dad and grandpa.”

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