Seattle parents worried about safety after
school allows homeless encampment to stay
Posted By: NorthernDog, 4/21/2021 9:08:21 AM
One day before his 6-year-old started at Broadview-Thomson Elementary School in Seattle, Ryle Goodrich was on the phone with the police department. He was walking near a sprawling homeless encampment on the edge of school grounds when he spotted a sword in one of the tents. (Snip) Despite multiple pleas from anxious parents such as Goodrich and Greens to remove the camp, the district has said no. They argue that sweeping the 50 or so tents of homeless people would send the wrong message to children and believe keeping them up would provide an up-close, in-person lesson in compassion. In
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The city has every excuse in the book for allowing a homeless encampment at a school. Only a few parents are fighting back.