| Asbury Park students taking part in anti-gang program |
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| Saturday, 29 December 2007 | |
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By MICHELLE SAHN Shay-Quan Beasley, 11, likes the anti-gang program introduced in city schools this year because, he said, students are learning to "always be good and not join a gang or be violent." Those things are important, according to the fifth-grader. Otherwise, "if you grow up, it will stay inside of you, and you'll be a mean and hateful person that no one likes, and you'll grow to have problems," he explained. Shay-Quan is among more than 900 Asbury Park fourth-, fifth-, sixth- and seventh-graders getting Gang Resistance Education and Training this year. GREAT was started in 1991 through a partnership between the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the Phoenix Police Department. READ MORE: http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071229/NEWS/712290369/-1/newsfront
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