Foreign students in Lancing

Foreign students

Discussion started by Trevor on 15th August 2006

Trevor comments

I feel very sad and ashamed to live in Lancing when I hear again as I seem to each year that mindless youngsters from Lancing, Sompting and surrounding areas are verbally and physically abusing foreign students who stay as paying guests in our community. Are their parents not aware of what goes on or do they just not care? These "guests" bring income into our community, usually to those who most benefit from the extra money. I would suggest that everyone keeps an eye out for this anti-social behaviour and immediately reports it to the police when it’s seen, preferably with a photo taken on their mobile to help identify the culprits.

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Local resident replies on 15/04/07

Hello, again North Lancing Website

I have been looking through some of the Comments offered on the site and re-read Trevor's misgivings about the way foreign students can be verbally abused and assaulted in our community. My only objection to Trevor's analysis of the situation is that he misrepresents the fairhandedness of this element within our community. I have myself been subjected to gratuitous harassment by sundry juveniles, despite being manifestly neither studious nor foreign.

Is this really an appropriate context for Martial Arts classes to be offered within our local Leisure Centre? Commando Krav Maga classes coming to Lancing Leisure Centre!

Still too few comments on the site. Why don't people say what THEY think?

get communicating, North Lancing

a (pacifist) resident

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