Safe Passage


My personal opinion is that more kids have been getting killed in this neighborhood on their way home. To me when kids get killed in front of their school, close to their schools, and a block away from their school. It shows how un-safe it really is for students both male and females to travel home. I think that’s the reason why, we have so many missing children; in not just this area but in Chicago period. It’s not just coming home from school that’s dangerous now, but it’s going to school also. So many kids have gotten beat up, murdered, and kidnapped on the way to school; that it has gotten to the point that most parents will just take their kids to school and pick them up after, this in it self is a problem especially for parents that have jobs. I as a student remember seeing kids that have even gotten hit by cars on their way to school, I happened to be one of them.
By viewing all the negative things that happen, with the drive-by shootings, the hit and runs, the senseless bearings, the killings, and last but not by far the least rape; I have come to acknowledge the fact violence, has been escalading, and it seems to be directed towards the youth. There have been girls getting raped while they were on their way to school and on their way home from school, that it’s becoming a bigger problem every day. But what’s even more shocking is that the kidnapping and raping is not just happening to the girls, its happening to just as many young boys as well. Some people would like to believe that its because of the neighborhood, that we live in is the reason we have so much violence, rape, murder, and kidnapping; And while I cannot ignore the fact that it is and important factor the truth is that the area really doesn’t matter when it comes to violence because that is every where. There’s more than enough violence everywhere, and everyone is affected by it. These reasons have lead me to believe, that there really is no safe passage there have been too much innocent blood shed from the ones who weren’t as luck enough to make it to there if it is one.


Linda Moore
April 17, 2008
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