[edshuck]

Eddie will be going to High School in the fall.

Briall (pro. Bria) will be going to middle school

Morgan will continue at his present school.

Eddie applied for and was / is accepted at New School. It was in the middle of San Francisco State.

But now that he is in . The school is moving to the 3rd floor of a middle school in one of the projects.

More later but it is a mess.

I had to make a quick run to get him, sick at school.

This project has a lot of trouble with gangs and drugs and murder. And the middle school is reflective of the neighborhood.

We thought we had him in a safe place but were wrong.

peace

[kall]

Does he have the option of applying to a different school now?

Coming from a place where we don't really have the problems you mention to the scale you mention, I can't imagine having to send a child to a school in that situation.

[edshuck]

I would like for him to go to a safe school but that depends on my daughter. And whether or not she will move him to another school.

We got him into the GATE progam at Marina at the last moment. And knowing the level of procrastination that my daughter is capable of, the last moment will be the timing for this move.

Here are some recent links to the violence near the school.

March 20
http://www.sfindependent.com/article...1604n_projects

http://www.examiner.com/article/inde...203n_girlgangs

Violence in the city seems to be within racial barriers. Black on black, Latino on Latino, Oriental on oriental.

Potrero, Hunters Point / Bayview, Western Addition and Sunnydale are primary areas for black on black gang activity.

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Murder of a police officer

http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=24021

http://cbs5.com/news/local/2004/05/1..._Shooting.html

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Shooting by police

http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/in...i/051304n_boyd

I include these links to show that the situation is far from stable. Things could turn quite ugly.

Also not mentioned in any of the above is the inclusion of the California Highway Patrol (Normally, they do not patrol local streets - and they are state police). The situation is so bad in the Sunnydale, Hunters Point/Bayview that they are "beefing up" the patrols.

We (the people of this city) are putting togeather an explosive situation.