Posted on 08/09/2021 3:29:00 PM PDT by Hojczyk
With just a few weeks until school begins, the homeless encampment at Broadview Thompson K-8 in Seattle is growing, violence is spiraling out of control, drug dealers make regular stops to the site and sex workers work the area and nothing seems to be happening in order to have the encampment removed before the first day of school.
An email obtained from the Broadview Thompson PTA to the parent body advises parents to "Stop by the encampment and meet Mike and his team."
"Mike" is Mike Mathias, who has been tasked with dealing with the encampment by Seattle Public Schools, has an extensive criminal past as well as addiction and mental health challenges, who so far has claimed he has gotten people out of the encampment and into shelters and services while the encampment keeps growing.
The email asks for donations and then said, "SPS has installed a gate at the north end of the camp, to discourage campers from going through that neighborhood at night." Additionally, the email said, "SPS is in the process of installing a fence along the walkway leading from the park to the school playground in anticipation of being able to open the back gate before and after school in September."
One neighbor said to The Post Millennial, "Why would they need the fencing if they were not planning on making the encampment permanent? Shouldn’t they just clear the encampment?"
"Now the neighbors are locked out of their park, and one of the assailants has the key, deciding who comes and who goes. Seattle Public Schools is now letting a violent individual manage their property."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
This is like an unfunny episode of Portlandia.
Spot on!
I would imagine the teachers unions would welcome the street bums with mental issues and drug problems. In fact, why not let them teach the kids, unions don’t care about kids, and it would give the teachers another year off.b
Or a bunch of skunks but then again the skunks might turn their noses at the smell.
Note she says “their property”. No, dumbbell libtard, it’s OUR property.
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