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Safe Passage between School and HomeRonald Porep, SafetyIssues.com |
Volume 2 Issue 23October 2003 |
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Deonta Wright, 15, was waiting for a bus after
school at
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Chicago Public Schools officials are
recruiting 100 volunteers to stand on street corners, or "hot spots,"
around Crane for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon to
spread the safety of the school throughout the school’s neighborhood for
students waiting for buses to take them home or walking home. Chicago school officials have been operating a similar program in the area around Robeson High School for several years that, according to neighbors and parents, is very effective in fighting gang violence especially before and after school due to the large number of parents throughout the area surrounding the school. The program at Robeson started after a teen was shot to death there too. But you do not have to wait for a tragedy at your child’s school to put this program in place. Your child’s school does not even have to be in one of the inner cities to make it worthwhile. Such a program can not only deter gang violence but also bullying and even child abduction – both of which are also at epidemic proportions in the United States. Bring the plan to your school board at its next meeting – stressing that the program can make all students in all schools safer. Then, as the originators of the Chicago Safe Passage program do, recruit concerned adults wherever you can – churches, community meetings and even by putting wanted posters up in the areas surrounding your community’s schools. Your child should be as safe going to and coming home from school as he or she is in school or at home. |
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