Mentor Lesley Barajas: Issues In My Community
I interviewed mentor Lesley Barajas who works in EOP central. Lesley and I both have seen different issues in our neighborhood. Lesley and I are from totally different areas. She is from near San Diego, and I am from the valley. These issues keep on recurring in our neighborhoods, and we are tired of them. In Lesley’s, neighborhood, bullying is the biggest issue, and would say it is an epidemic. In my community the biggest issue is single-parent households. Lesley also mentioned depression and peer pressure from negative friends affecting her community. I also put down racial discrimination because I feel that racism is everywhere now and it affects people in their lives.
Lesley says “bullying is a chain reaction.” I also think so because
it’s happening more and more now. Lesley says, “Bullying has been happening in my neighborhood as long as I remember.” Lesley was bullied herself by kids in school. Lesley knows how bullying first hand feels and doesn't want anyone in her neighborhood to suffer any longer. I say single-parent households affect me emotionally because I come from a single-parent household and know how it feels to not have more support. I still don’t know a lot about single-parent households, but what I do know is everything happens for a reason and we have to live with it.
Lesley doesn't understand why people bully others or let people get bullied. Lesley says, “This is 2016, and we have the opportunity to do whatever we want and we don't end bullying.” I agree with her because I was also bullied and I don't like it, and if Lesley and I could do something about it we sure will. One thing I don't understand about single-parent households is why someone would have the nerve to abandon their child and the other parent. I suffered a lot when my mother left my siblings and me with my father to leave with a new man.
Lesley still wants to find out why people let this epidemic spread and why people get influenced by this negative activity and bully people. People get affected emotionally, mentally, and physically by bullying, and many also don't find a way out and kill themselves. I want to understand what are the effects on children in single-parent households while growing up. Will these single-parent household kids do the same to their future families? I know parents sometimes cannot live with the other parent, but they should think about the effects it leaves on their children.
Lesley says “bullying is a chain reaction.” I also think so because
it’s happening more and more now. Lesley says, “Bullying has been happening in my neighborhood as long as I remember.” Lesley was bullied herself by kids in school. Lesley knows how bullying first hand feels and doesn't want anyone in her neighborhood to suffer any longer. I say single-parent households affect me emotionally because I come from a single-parent household and know how it feels to not have more support. I still don’t know a lot about single-parent households, but what I do know is everything happens for a reason and we have to live with it.
Lesley doesn't understand why people bully others or let people get bullied. Lesley says, “This is 2016, and we have the opportunity to do whatever we want and we don't end bullying.” I agree with her because I was also bullied and I don't like it, and if Lesley and I could do something about it we sure will. One thing I don't understand about single-parent households is why someone would have the nerve to abandon their child and the other parent. I suffered a lot when my mother left my siblings and me with my father to leave with a new man.
Lesley still wants to find out why people let this epidemic spread and why people get influenced by this negative activity and bully people. People get affected emotionally, mentally, and physically by bullying, and many also don't find a way out and kill themselves. I want to understand what are the effects on children in single-parent households while growing up. Will these single-parent household kids do the same to their future families? I know parents sometimes cannot live with the other parent, but they should think about the effects it leaves on their children.