SEATTLE - Since July a homeless encampment has been growing behind Broadview-Thomson K-8 School in Seattle’s Bitter Lake community. Neighbors and parents continue to call on Seattle Public School to put children’s safety first and to remove the encampment. Over the past 10 months the homeless encampment behind the school has been grown into more than 40 tents. Neighbors and parents have repeatedly called on Seattle Public Schools for a solution.
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It s a recipe for disaster.
That s what Seattle parent Serena Evans thinks of the situation unfolding outside Broadview-Thompson Elementary School in the city s Bitter Lake neighborhood.
A homeless encampment has spilled over onto school property, and despite complaints, the school board refuses to do anything about it.
Parents like Evans are worried about safety and say their children, some as young as 5, are too scared to go in. Others are playing near the edge of the encampment, stepping on condom wrappers, broken bottles, and trash. I knew it had gotten bad, but I didn t realize how out of control it was, Evans told KIRO7. To have my daughter running around not to pass judgment but usually with homeless encampments, there are drugs which mean needles.
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Rantz: School board members demanded Seattle not sweep homeless encampments from schools
The encampment at Miller Park and Meany Middle School has grown dramatically. (Photo: Jason Rantz)
Members of the Seattle School Board demanded the mayor’s office
not sweep dangerous and growing homeless encampments on two school properties.
In emails obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, Seattle School Board President Chandra Hampson and Director Zachary DeWolf stopped tried to stop Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office from sweeping encampments near Meany Middle School on Capitol Hill, and at Broadview Thomson K-8 in Bitter Lake.
Hampson demanded sweeps “never” occur in the city, including on school grounds. DeWolf empathically emailed the city, “this is not an ask for a sweep!”