WASHINGTON — As law enforcement visibility increases across the District, some students are beginning to ask difficult questions and educators say they don't have all the answers.

"They're questioning like the city looks different," said Brittany Richardson, a parent and social studies teacher at a D.C. public charter school.

"They're saying to me 'I ride the train to school and now there's like military people on the train. Why are they on the train? Why are they looking at us?'," said Richardson.

Richardson, who teaches fifth through eighth graders, says many of her students ─ several of whom are immigrants ─are not just seeing the changes on the news or on social media.

"This is something that's in their face," she said. "They're coming to us with the questions and it's not 'I saw t

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