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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

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