Do teens need a curfew at the mall?
Weekends spent cruising the mall may very well be considered the high school equivalent of a national pastime for teens just looking for kicks or a place to see and be seen. And for the most part, several malls in the Roanoke and New River valleys have been supportive of teens’ roaming, resisting a trend that has other shopping centers putting limits on when and where teens can hangout. “Teens are always going to be a little bit loud, and we just have to deal with those types of behavior on a one-on-one basis,” said Louise Dudley, the general manager of Valley View Mall. Most teens know the rules, she said. They are posted on each entrance door, and the mall has had very few incidences of unruly behavior — at least not enough to warrant implementing a youth escort policy, she said. The mall’s owner, CBL & Associates Properties, has put the policy in effect at some of its other properties, Dudley said, including the Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights, Va. Southpark’s youth escort polic
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