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Filed Thursday, April 27 at 7:00 AM
by Tina Rutherford, Sarah Hyduke, Paige Kuske, and Heather Roll
A group of Washington University graduate social work students surveyed students from Vashon High School and the ninth grade center at Williams to establish whether or not they felt safe walking to and from school. They got responses from 164 students.
Forty-eight percent of students said they did not feel safe walking to school; 37% said they did not feel safe in the school neighborhood.
The six main reasons those students did not feel safe were: stray dogs; "crackheads" and drug dealers; gangs; fighting, shootings, or violence; kidnappers and rapists; and that it was still dark out.
"The neighborhood I have to walk through doesn't like my neighborhood, so I sometimes don't even come to school," one student said. "The walk from my school is long [and] I don't have many people to walk home with," said another.
Those who said they felt safe walking to school either said it was because they lived close to the school or they just didn't fear trouble. Some of the comments were:
"I have a lot of protection."
"I fear no one."
"I don't have any static with anyone."
"I got a gun called a 45."
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