Seaford is just a little town on the south shore of Nassau County, although the people who live there believe it to be much more. When I moved to Seaford, from Plainedge school district I was surprised to see how different the two communities were, even though they were literally 5 minutes away from each other. From the outside Seaford looks like a small upper class predominately white, good place to raise kids with a good school district. But as we have all been told many times, you can’t judge a book by the cover, the same applied to Seaford. Once living there and getting to know people I realized that the town was completely different than what my mom had thought and intended for us to live in.
The residents of Seaford do not realize it but living in Seaford was hurting them socially, because they are not exposed to diversity at all. They entire town of Seaford had about 1 black family and like 2 or 3 Spanish, but everyone else was white and either Italian or Jewish with few exceptions. I would consider a lot of the Seaford residents to be racist, not because they choose to be but because they were never exposed to anything else so they do not know any better. The town is filled with upper class families so along with not being exposed to diversity they kids are given what they want and whenever they want it. The kids in Seaford are so spoiled that most of them did not have to work at all during high school and they got brand new cars and their parents would pay for their gas, insurance, and if anything ever broke they would just ask their parents for the money. Most of the kids in my high school would have brand new cars and would not even know how to park in a parking space with cars on both sides of them. They also were the most stuck up people I have ever met, if you did not wear Hollister or Abercrombie or have brand name bags you were an outcast and yeah other towns do the same thing but not as much or as badly as Seaford does. I would always think of when everyone went to college they would be in for a rude awaking because they are all very childish and none of them ever do anything without at least like 3 or 4 other friends with them. From the outside Seaford looks like a good place, and there are not kids hanging around the streets like in other towns that most people think are bad places to have a family. Once on the inside though they are just like every other town with teenage drinking, drugs, and teenage sex. Seaford is such a small town, especially because the way they divide up the schools, people who live in seaford go to either Plainedge schools, Seaford schools, or JFK Highschool, which made the Seaford school district even smaller than the town itself. Seaford has 2 elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The highschool has less than 1000 people enrolled from 9th grade till 12th grade. Since Seaford is such a small town everyone knows everything about everyone else. I remember within a week of living there everyone knew like my whole life story even people who I never talked to ever. The girls in Seaford are also very protective when it comes to the guys, they would make sure that their boyfriends never talked to the "new girl" which at the time was me and I didn't realize this. I remember moving to Seaford in December of 9th grade, and the first day I started there were multiple kids who came up to me asking if I drank or smoked, and then when I answered they asked if I was “straightedge,” and having no idea what that meant I knew I was not going to fit in at this school. Within a week of living in Seaford, there were two kids in 9th grade, one boy and one girl who had both been hospitalized, both for alcohol poisoning, one of which had to have their stomach pumped. I had lived in Seaford not even a full 3 months before the first time that I drank, and then suddenly I fit in and was not looked at as an outsider. This was strange because I never thought of myself drinking before I was at least in college and now 3 months of living in Seaford I was already drinking. People would think that alcohol and drugs were not a problem because most kids are not on the streets doing them, because there were a few parents who allowed to the kids to drink at their houses. Within 6 months of living there I knew of at least 3 drug dealers who were less than 18 years old, and I had tried weed which again was a shock because I will not even smoke a cigarette. I knew of multiple people being arrested for possession of weed, and not only if that wasn't bad enough they brought it to school with them. Once they did a anonymous survey of my english class in 10th grade to see if how many people have drank and every single person except 1 in my class said they have drank at least once. They also asked how many people have smoked before and about half of my class had tried it. I know that is they would have asked the same question to my entire grade before graduation, that more than half my grade would have smoked at least once, and maybe 5 kids in the whole grade have never drank alcohol before. Even the so called "unpopular" people drank in Seaford, because it was the only thing to do on the weekends. One thing that I find very strange is that there is a precienct in Seaford and even with all the cops there were still so many people who drank and smoked and got away with it. My friends and I used to hang out in the parking lot behind a cvs and in a park that was locked after sundown. Somehow someone had gotten a key to the gates and would open it and we would all hang out there and drink and smoke and I think out of all the times we were there the cops only came once, and none of us ever got tickets for drinking or got taken home. An outsider would think that there was so much to do because there are 2 major parks, a movie theatre, the mall is like a 10 minute car ride, and plenty of stores, but on the inside those are the places we say we are going but instead we go to someone’s house to drink, or we hang out in the parking lot of one of the stores and smoke. Seaford may look like every other town on the outside but once on the inside you discover how truly stuck up and spoiled the kids are, and how bad the town truly is with alcohol and drugs..
The residents of Seaford do not realize it but living in Seaford was hurting them socially, because they are not exposed to diversity at all. They entire town of Seaford had about 1 black family and like 2 or 3 Spanish, but everyone else was white and either Italian or Jewish with few exceptions. I would consider a lot of the Seaford residents to be racist, not because they choose to be but because they were never exposed to anything else so they do not know any better. The town is filled with upper class families so along with not being exposed to diversity they kids are given what they want and whenever they want it. The kids in Seaford are so spoiled that most of them did not have to work at all during high school and they got brand new cars and their parents would pay for their gas, insurance, and if anything ever broke they would just ask their parents for the money. Most of the kids in my high school would have brand new cars and would not even know how to park in a parking space with cars on both sides of them. They also were the most stuck up people I have ever met, if you did not wear Hollister or Abercrombie or have brand name bags you were an outcast and yeah other towns do the same thing but not as much or as badly as Seaford does. I would always think of when everyone went to college they would be in for a rude awaking because they are all very childish and none of them ever do anything without at least like 3 or 4 other friends with them. From the outside Seaford looks like a good place, and there are not kids hanging around the streets like in other towns that most people think are bad places to have a family. Once on the inside though they are just like every other town with teenage drinking, drugs, and teenage sex. Seaford is such a small town, especially because the way they divide up the schools, people who live in seaford go to either Plainedge schools, Seaford schools, or JFK Highschool, which made the Seaford school district even smaller than the town itself. Seaford has 2 elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The highschool has less than 1000 people enrolled from 9th grade till 12th grade. Since Seaford is such a small town everyone knows everything about everyone else. I remember within a week of living there everyone knew like my whole life story even people who I never talked to ever. The girls in Seaford are also very protective when it comes to the guys, they would make sure that their boyfriends never talked to the "new girl" which at the time was me and I didn't realize this. I remember moving to Seaford in December of 9th grade, and the first day I started there were multiple kids who came up to me asking if I drank or smoked, and then when I answered they asked if I was “straightedge,” and having no idea what that meant I knew I was not going to fit in at this school. Within a week of living in Seaford, there were two kids in 9th grade, one boy and one girl who had both been hospitalized, both for alcohol poisoning, one of which had to have their stomach pumped. I had lived in Seaford not even a full 3 months before the first time that I drank, and then suddenly I fit in and was not looked at as an outsider. This was strange because I never thought of myself drinking before I was at least in college and now 3 months of living in Seaford I was already drinking. People would think that alcohol and drugs were not a problem because most kids are not on the streets doing them, because there were a few parents who allowed to the kids to drink at their houses. Within 6 months of living there I knew of at least 3 drug dealers who were less than 18 years old, and I had tried weed which again was a shock because I will not even smoke a cigarette. I knew of multiple people being arrested for possession of weed, and not only if that wasn't bad enough they brought it to school with them. Once they did a anonymous survey of my english class in 10th grade to see if how many people have drank and every single person except 1 in my class said they have drank at least once. They also asked how many people have smoked before and about half of my class had tried it. I know that is they would have asked the same question to my entire grade before graduation, that more than half my grade would have smoked at least once, and maybe 5 kids in the whole grade have never drank alcohol before. Even the so called "unpopular" people drank in Seaford, because it was the only thing to do on the weekends. One thing that I find very strange is that there is a precienct in Seaford and even with all the cops there were still so many people who drank and smoked and got away with it. My friends and I used to hang out in the parking lot behind a cvs and in a park that was locked after sundown. Somehow someone had gotten a key to the gates and would open it and we would all hang out there and drink and smoke and I think out of all the times we were there the cops only came once, and none of us ever got tickets for drinking or got taken home. An outsider would think that there was so much to do because there are 2 major parks, a movie theatre, the mall is like a 10 minute car ride, and plenty of stores, but on the inside those are the places we say we are going but instead we go to someone’s house to drink, or we hang out in the parking lot of one of the stores and smoke. Seaford may look like every other town on the outside but once on the inside you discover how truly stuck up and spoiled the kids are, and how bad the town truly is with alcohol and drugs..
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