Pete Zielinski, school resource police officer at Plattsburgh Central School and community service officer with the City of Plattsburgh Police Department, agrees. At the high school, Zielinski works with school officials, students and families on educational law issues, team teaches personal and business law classes, provides drug and alcohol prevention programming during health classes, and offers counseling and referral services to students. When we look at most of the kids we deal with, the families are depressed and the area is depressed. Parents don't have the skills they need. They have to work very hard at parenting and sacrifice a lot.
Kids are a product of their environment.
Parent involvement is crucial, and for adolescents, having people they can confide in who are willing to really listen to what they have to say at home, within the community and at school is also very important. Kids don't feel society, parents or schools value them. As members of a society, we need to understand that every single kid is valuable, even if he is not your own kid. The information you receive from Press-Republican Online is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.