THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 26, 1995 TAG: 9505260045
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E11 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
HERE ARE RESPONSES to last week's question about whether teens are treated unfairly at shopping malls.
I think teenagers are treated unfairly at the malls. There are security guards, cameras, things like that. All the older people get all nervous. - Antonio Asicial, 18, Green Run High School
Yes, we are treated unfairly because of our color and they think we are too young. - John Simmons, 11, Ruffner Middle School
I think that it is somewhat unfair for people to be so cruel to teens. With everything going on with teens I can understand why. But, it some cases, it is unfair to some people like me and my friends because we've never done anything to deserve the distrust.- Jeremy Witten, 14
Is the way the teenagers treated right? No, it's not. But is it going to change? I don't think so. Someday these kids might want their own stores and they are going to find that when teenagers walk into their stores, they will probably do the same thing that is being done to them now. They try very hard to change this, but you can't change human nature. The only thing they can do is to deal with it and know it's going to get better as they get older. When I was 17, people acted the same way toward teens. When the present teenagers have kids of their own and they come home from the mall complaining, they can just laugh and say nothing has changed. - Jan Pickford, 32 by CNB