u/Proud_Possibility256

I've never seen any dead cats (allegedly, poisoned with the rat poison) and don't know who's doing it. But none of the Big speakers at the Community Board 11 meeting are addressing the real public health hazard of rats taking over Bensonhurst, including Seth Low Park. You cannot walk outside without seeing rats churning the 86th, and rats all over the place by the boardwalk at Caesar's Bay by Target. Rats running around the babies, kids, and youth playing basketball at Seth Low.

I really think they made up this cat problem to draw public sympathy and outrage while avoiding the real problems. Engage animal control timely, and you will have no dead cat problem. But who is going to deal with the ongoing rat problem???

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48(F). So tired of everything in the US. I feel I am getting closer to the point of just dropping and going. But... I am really on a tight budget (by US standards). Realistically, a $7,000, maybe $10,000/year budget. While not native, I do speak Spanish. Dual USA and EU citizenship, but Europe is pretty expensive; I will go there when I can't manage anything else. Have any mid-aged expat ladies lived in LATAM? How is it? I want to listen to salsa, sit on the beach, and drink my piña colada, nada más.

One can feel it in the air. There is higher mid-management activity (clearly, the pressure is coming from above), down the line. From your experience, what helped you stay invisible and off the radar as long as possible?

(Not a teacher). With the new immigrant influx (in this case, from different former Russian-speaking countries) in our part of Brooklyn, I have lately observed many scenes on the street with kids (5-10 year old) being screamed at (in the parents' language), hitting gestures shown towards kids, kids crying, left behind on the street (demonstratively abandoned), and kids appearing distraught and intimidated. It appears to be very routine to their dynamics in their cultures. Not fully beaten-up kids to trigger a call to the police, but very uncomfortable situations, from the observed.

Please advise, how do you perceive these situations from the teacher's perspective?

(Please, no lecturing that it's not my business, not my culture, not my language). If it does not look right, it's not right.

Are the schools providing support to the incoming immigrant kids on the abuse, and where can the kids seek help, especially, at the elementary grade level?