No! Living there would be a nightmare for me, I'm what you would call "mixed." In the book you're reading the towns folk believe in segregation and punish those unjustly because of the color of their skin. It's also a very poor part of Alabama based on the description so schools would be awful, neighborhoods might be riddled with crime, and community resources would be very limited or non-existent (community centers, parks, hospitals, etc).
As for the second half, it was absolutely cruel. The parents should have kept a better eye on their children and reprimanded them for being so inconsiderate. They should have also educated them on letting other people just be since we're all different, with our own challenges.
If you want to know whether that sentence is punctuated correctly, then you are right - it is.
You need to have a comma after the word range, because that is where the dependent clause ends, and there should be no comma before the conjunction and.
Yea it is 7th grade work-
<span>Gerund Phrase: skiing in Switzerland
Noun Use: object of the preposition</span>
