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Byline: Rebecca Roybal Journal Staff Writer
Can't we all just get along?
Well, no.
But a welcome wagon of sorts could help alleviate the alienation some students feel at school.
If students would drop the name-calling, mad-dogging and judging each other by what they wear, life would be easier, the students said. Fewer fistfights would occur. Fewer students would feel left out.
"I think we all should respect each other," said Mike Torres, 15, an eighth-grader at Taft Middle School. "We shouldn't all be called names and stuff like that."
"I think we should treat people the way (we) want to be treated," added Mel Romero, 13,…